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PIER offers funding for seed projects, joint workshops or short visits of international colleagues in your field.

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PHGS Travel Awards for doctoral researchers

Outstanding doctoral researchers of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS) can apply for a PHGS Travel Award to pay for travel to and participation in scientific events. Find out more...

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Here you can find all templates and information sheets that are important for your membership in the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School.

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You are a new international doctoral sresearcher and would like support during your first time in Hamburg? You are an experienced doctoral researcher and would like to support a new international doctoral researcher? Register here.

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You are starting a doctorate at DESY or Universität Hamburg and want to become a member of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School? Here you can sign up.

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The PHGS curriculum is the core of the education of our members and is the basis for the PHGS Certificate and Transcript of Records.

PIER PhD Reception 2026

On 19 June 2026, about 70 doctoral researchers, their supervisors, friends, relatives, and staff from both DESY and Universität Hamburg attended the event to welcome the new doctoral candidates and to honor the doctoral graduates of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School
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Thesis defense: Deniz Bozkurt

EVENT | Thesis defense: Deniz Bozkurt | 30 June 2026, 2:30 p.m.

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: Breaking Symmetries: N = 2 Spin Chains and Conformal Field Theory at Finite Temperature
01 Jul 2026

Thesis defense: Albert Bekov

EVENT | Thesis defense: Albert Bekov | 1 July 2026, 11:00 a.m.

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: Higher-Point Correlation Functions in N = 4 Supersymmetric Yang–Mills Theory
03 Jul 2026

Thesis defense: Miguel Blanco García

EVENT | Thesis defense: Miguel Blanco García | 3 July 2026, 10:00 a.m.

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: ADSORPTION AND PHOTOOXIDATION OF SARS-CoV 2 SPIKE AMINO ACIDS ON TIO2 POLYMORPHS
03 Jul 2026

Thesis defense: Nele Naomi Striker

EVENT | Thesis defense: Nele Naomi Striker | 3 July 2026, 10:30 a.m.

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: Spatial and Temporal Correlations in Colloidal Systems
06 Jul 2026

Thesis defense: Stepan Zakharov

EVENT | Thesis defense: Stepan Zakharov | 6 July 2026, 10:00 a.m.

The disputation is open to the UHH university public. Title of thesis: Measurement of the CP Structure of the Higgs Boson Coupling to Tau Leptons Using Run 3 Data Collected with the CMS Detector
27 Aug 2026

PIER + COAST: Meet-a-Role-Model with Dr. Daniel Heuchel and Dr. Iris Theophilou

EVENT | Dr. Daniel Heuchel and Dr. Iris Theophilou | 27 August 2026, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. | Online

COAST career lunch talk: Join us, ask questions, network and find out if you could see yourself in a similar job.
07 Sep 2026

Advanced Python Programming Techniques

EVENT | Bernd Klein | 7 + 8 September 2026, 9 am - 5 pm | online

This course introduces advanced Python programming techniques that are useful for writing clearer, shorter, more efficient, and more maintainable code.
18 Sep 2026

PIER Startup Bootcamp Workshop III: Starting a Business in Germany as a non-EU Citizen

EVENT | Andreas Voss (Concis Group! and People & Friends) | 18 September 2026, 9 am - 1 pm | Remote

Find out what you need to establish your own company in Germany in our next PIER Startup Workshop “Starting a Startup in Germany as a non-EU Citizen” for early stage researchers (doctoral researchers and postdocs), taking place on 18 September 2026.
22 Sep 2026

Career Orientation for Doctoral Researchers - 8 sessions

EVENT | 8 sessions between 22 September - 27 November 2026 | Room 116, Building 61, DESY-Campus Bahrenfeld

Are you approaching the end of your doctorate and thinking about the next step in your career? Do you wonder what your strengths and talents are and what kind of job will suit you?
29 Sep 2026

Funding Opportunities in Germany and the EU

EVENT | Dr. Susanne Hollmann | 29 September 2026, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm | tba

This practical training provides a solid foundation for developing strong third-party funding applications, with a particular focus on programmes offered by the DFG and the European Commission (e.g. ERC), transferable to other (inter-) national funders.
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