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PIER Day 2024

On November 15, 2024, the PIER Day 2024 was held at Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld.
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Transitioning from Academia: Developing a Career with Python

EVENT | 31 March - 2 April 2025, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm | Room EG.013, Start-up Labs (building 98) (Entry from outside DESY at the Stadionstrasse side gate)

Advance your Python skills and learn career development strategies to transition from academia to coding or data-related positions.


08 Apr 2025

Art Exhibit "MASH": More than A Single Half

EVENT | 8 - 15 April 2025 | Online

The MASH (More than A Single Half) exhibition gives an opportunity to anyone working or studying on the DESY campus: present another facet of themselves by showing the art they are producing beside their scientific-related work.


11 Apr 2025

PIER Startup Workshop: Business Modeling and Pitching

EVENT | Andreas Voss (Concis Group! and People & Friends) | 11 April 2025, 9 am - 4 pm | CFEL, SR V

Learn how to create a business model based on your research and improve your pitching skills at our next PIER Startup Workshop “Business Modeling and Pitching” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 11 April 2025.


11 Apr 2025

Research Data Management for Doctoral Researchers

EVENT | Dr. Juliane Jacob | 11 April 2025, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | FLASH seminar room, building 28c (2nd floor), Campus Bahrenfeld

For you as doctoral researchers it is vital to organise and secure your data right from the start of your research project until you archive it at the end.


16 Apr 2025

Meet-a-Role-Model with Dr Heike Neumann

EVENT | Dr Heike Neumann | 16 April 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Online

COAST career lunch talk: Join us, ask questions, network and find out if you could see yourself in a similar job.


24 Apr 2025

Postdoc Welcome Night: Bahrenfeld Edition

EVENT | 24 April 2025 | Campus Bahrenfeld

The MIN-Faculty at University of Hamburg welcomes all new (and anybody that still feels new) postdoctoral fellows in Hamburg, to the supportive environment at the MIN faculty and at PIER Education Platform (PEP). We will make you familiar with structures at the MIN faculty and have two mini Workshops to choose between!


12 May 2025

Python for Data Analysis

EVENT | Bernd Klein | 12 + 13 May 2025, 9 am - 5 pm | online

Do you want to do machine learning and/or data analysis using Python, but you’re having trouble getting started? Here's the solution.


04 Jun 2025

PIER Innovation Lunch Talk: "Alpaca's Nanobodies as Biotechnological Solutions: A Journey from Latin America to Hamburg Bahrenfeld."

EVENT | Dr. Alejandro Rojas, Berking Biotechnology | 4 June 2025, 12 - 1:30 p.m. | CFEL, seminar room I

PIER is pleased to announce its next PIER Innovation Lunch Talk "Alpaca's Nanobodies as Biotechnological Solutions: A Journey from Latin America to Hamburg Bahrenfeld" with Dr. Alejandro Rojas (Berking Biotechnology), taking place on 4 June 2025.


10 Jun 2025

Scientific Writing for Doctoral Researchers: Turning the Blank Page Into a Manuscript

EVENT | Dr. Carsten Rohr | 10 + 11 June 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.


27 Jun 2025

PIER Startup Workshop: Founding a Startup in Germany as a non-EU Citizen

EVENT | Andreas Voss (Concis Group! and People & Friends) | 27 June 2025, 9 am - 1 pm | Remote

Find out what you need to establish your own company in Germany in our next PIER Startup Workshop “Founding a Startup in Germany as a non-EU Citizen” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 27 June 2025.


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