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High level of participation once again at the users' meetings 2025 of the Hamburg X-ray light sources. More than 1100 scientists have registered to discuss latest research performed at the DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III and free-electron laser FLASH as well as at the X-ray laser European XFEL and to inform themselves about new developments and future prospects over the course of the...

Jacco Vink, a leading expert in the field of high-energy astrophysics, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. This accolade recognizes internationally renowned scientists whose work has made a lasting impact on their field. The award includes a research stay at DESY, fostering further scientific collaboration.

The quantum computing company Quantinuum and a DESY team led by Karl Jansen, head of the Center of Quantum Technology and Applications (CQTA) at DESY, have achieved an important milestone. Using Quantinuum’s H1 quantum computer they studied a model in Lattice Gauge Theory, a mathematical tool used to understand fundamental processes in nature.

The Wolfgang Pauli Center for Theoretical Physics (WPC), a joint institution of DESY and Hamburg University, hosted a groundbreaking master class on “Invitation to Black Hole Thermodynamics” led by Professor Edward Witten, one of the most influential physicists of our time. Held at DESY from 14 to 17 January, the event attracted more than 300 registered international participants, underscoring the global interest in Witten’s...

Official start of construction: Eva Gümbel, Hamburg State Councillor for Science, Research and Equality, DESY Director Helmut Dosch, Accelerator Director Wim Leemans and other guests of honour laid the foundation stone for DESY's Centre for Accelerator Science and Technology (CAST) today. The new research building will provide DESY with a new centre for accelerator research - one of DESY's strategic core areas.

Researchers at DESY, together with international colleagues, have discovered a new class of enzymes that can be used to uncover previously unknown biological processes. The researchers suspect that these bacterial “diDNases” - the technical term - could play an important role in the immune defense of bacteria. The team recently published their findings in the renowned journal “Nucleic Acids Research”, and the publication was...

Sarah Heim has joined the Institute of Experimental Physics at the University of Hamburg as a professor after a successful application to the Helmholtz programme “Funding of first-time professorial appointments of highly talented female scientists.” She will continue in her role as DESY scientist and started her professorship titled “Physics, with a focus of dark matter and Higgs analysis at ATLAS” in December 2024.

DESY researchers have achieved a major advance in optical microchip production: they have developed a millimeter-sized high-power amplifier with an output power of over one watt - many times more than was previously possible on this tiny scale.

On January 7, 2025, the European Commission has established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy.

Spectroscopy expert Felix Allum from Stanford University will use DESY’s free-electron laser FLASH for time-resolved X-ray spectroscopic investigations of the dynamics of organic photochemical reactions with potential synthetic applications. He comes to Hamburg through a Humboldt Research Fellowship, a funding programme offered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for international researchers to conduct long-term research projects in Germany.

Britta Redlich will take over the lead of the Photon Science research division at DESY on 1 January 2025. The Professor of experimental physics was previously Director of the FELIX free-electron laser and the HFML high-field magnetic laboratory at Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands).

The international multi-instrument Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHT) reveals new observations of a spectacular gamma-ray flare from the powerful relativistic jet emanating from the centre of the M87 galaxy at multiple wavelengths, potentially leading to a better understanding of how and where particles are accelerated in these kinds of jets.