PIER Day 2024

On November 15, 2024, the PIER Day 2024 was held at Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld.

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31 Jul 2025

Thesis defense: Alessio Miscioscia

EVENT | Thesis defense: Alessio Miscioscia | 31 July 2025, 2.00 p.m.

The disputation is closed to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: Thermal effects in conformal field theories

12 Sep 2025

PIER Startup Workshop: Creating Innovation with the Blue Ocean Strategy

EVENT | Andreas Voss (Concis Group! and People & Friends) | 12 September 2025, 9 am - 1 pm | Remote

Find out how to identify unique selling points in research and business in our next PIER Startup Workshop “Creating Innovation with the Blue Ocean Strategy” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 12 September 2025 (remote).

15 Sep 2025

Object Oriented Programming with Python

EVENT | Bernd Klein | 15 + 16 November 2025, 9 am - 5 pm | online

Introduction in Object Oriented Programming with Python. The course starts from scratch, showing the underlying ideas and implementations.

15 Oct 2025

Academic Writing - 8 Sessions

EVENT | 8 sessions from 15 October 2025 to 3 December 2025, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. (Wednesdays) | Campus Bahrenfeld, Building 61 Room 116 (1st floor)

At a basic level, a PhD is about developing the skills of a professional academic researcher. However, without a set syllabus to follow, how do you develop those skills?

04 Nov 2025

PIER Doctoral Seminar | November 2025

EVENT | Michael Büker | Three modules between 4 and 12 November 2025 | Campus Bahrenfeld, HARBOR (bldg. 610), seminar room ground floor

The seminar is open to all full and associated members of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS) from the 2nd year of the doctorate. All full members of PHGS must attend the seminar once during their time as a doctoral researcher.

07 Nov 2025

PIER Startup Workshop: Creating Innovation with Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT)

EVENT | Andreas Voss (Concis Group! and People & Friends) | 7 November 2025, 9 am - 1 pm | Remote

Learn how to create innovation by "thinking inside the box" in our next PIER Startup Workshop “Creating Innovation with Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT)” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 7 November 2025 (remote).

19 Nov 2025

Time and Self-Management for Doctoral Researchers

EVENT | Matthias Mayer | 19 + 20 November 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. | room tba

The workplace in academia is becoming ever more demanding and hectic, with PhD students often having to deal as efficiently and effectively with increasing time pressures, highly complex research projects, undefined working relationships and conflicting priorities.

02 Dec 2025

Scientific Writing: Turning the Blank Page Into a Manuscript

EVENT | Dr. Carsten Rohr | 2 + 3 December 2025, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | TBA

Publications of research results is the currency in modern science. It might not be your favorite occupation, but it is a decisive one, strongly determining your future research and career opportunities.

05 Dec 2025

PIER Startup Workshop: Prototyping

EVENT | Andreas Voss (Concis Group! and People & Friends) | 5 December 2025, 9 am - 4 pm | CFEL, SR V

Make your ideas tangible and join us for our next PIER Startup Workshop “Prototyping” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 5 December 2025.