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Innovation & Startup

You are interested in learning about business startup and innovation topics? Check out PIER events and activities in this field.

PIER Research Funding

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

PIER Education Platform

Transferable skills for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

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German and English courses for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

PHGS Travel Awards for doctoral researchers

With the PHGS Travel Awards we recognize outstanding doctoral researchers of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS). Accomplishments that can serve as the basis for a PHGS Travel Award include excellent publications, development of important scientific tools or software, entrepreneurship or other outstanding scientific contributions.

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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.

Buddy Programme for new doctoral researchers of the PHGS

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.

Registration membership PIER Helmholtz Graduate School

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.

Curriculum PIER Helmholtz Graduate School

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

Accelerator research

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY is one of the world’s leading facilities for building and operating large particle accelerators. DESY and Universität Hamburg have closely collaborated on accelerator research for decades now. Together, the two partners develop new technologies and study accelerator physics at existing facilities. .

Current research topics include ring accelerators for synchrotron radiation sources, electron sources with pulse lengths in the attosecond to femtosecond range, new types of plasma accelerators and superconducting linear accelerators for free-electron lasers and particle physics colliders. Postgraduate positions are offered for doctoral candidates working on accelerator theory and on numerous experimental topics.

Research Fields

Particle & astroparticle physics Photon science Nanoscience Infection and structural biology

Competence Fields

Accelerator Research Theoretical physics

PIER Emerging Topic

Artefact Profiling

Research groups in accelerator research

The accelerator research at DESY and Universität Hamburg is described on the following websites:

 

Research field accelerators at DESY

Research group Florian Gruener (UHH)

Research group Wolfgang Hillert (UHH)

Research group Katharina-Sophie Isleif (HSU)

PhD opportunities in Hamburg are available in the following topics and teams:

Improved Superconducting RF structures towards long pulse and continuous wave operation: optimized niobium surfaces and alternative materials
Contact: Hans Weise, Wolfgang Hillert

Compact plasma-based particle accelerators for applications in matter research, health, and industry
Contact: Andreas Maier, Wim Leemans

Generation of ultra-short, bright electron beams: from pico-second over femto-second to atto-second electron and light pulses
Contact: Holger Schlarb, Ralph Aßmann, Florian Burkart, Frank Stephan, Klaus Flöttmann

Further improvement and better characterization of photoinjectors for free electron lasers (for current pulsed and future CW operation)
Contact: Frank Stephan

R&D on high energy, high repetition rate THz generation for future pump-probe experiments at the European XFEL
Contact: Frank Stephan

R&D in radiation biology for 'FLASH' radiation therapy of tumors
Contact: Frank Stephan

Generation and control of high repetition rate external seeded FEL radiation within the FLASH2020+ project
Contact: Lucas Schaper, Siegfried Schreiber, Ingmar Hartl, Martin Beye

Xseed - a project to prepare and to develop new schemes of seeded FEL radiation at FLASH
Contact: Lucas Schaper, Sven Ackermann, Wolfgang Hillert, Ingmar Hartl

Novel schemes to generate ultra-short radiation at FLASH towards attosecond scale experiments
Contact: Mikhail Yurkov, Evgeny Schneidmiller, Pardis Niknejadi

Optical resonator configuration to generate seeded FEL radiation with multiple MHz repetition rate
Contact: Lucas Schaper, Johann Zemella, Sven Ackermann, Wolfgang Hillert

Intelligent Process Control Group
Contact: Annika Eichler