The PANDA Collaboration recently awarded the PANDA Theory PhD Prize for the fourth time. Every two years, this prize honors outstanding doctoral theses by young researchers. This year, Dr. Roberto Bruschini (Ohio State University) has received the award for his doctoral thesis “Unified Study of Spectrum and Properties of Heavy Mesons at Energies below and above Meson-Meson Thresholds”.
The PANDA Theory PhD Prize was handed over at the recent Panda Collaboration meeting at GSI in Darmstadt by…
The State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Viticulture, Forestry, Hunting and Homeland, Michael Ruhl, recently informed himself about the current scientific activities at GSI/FAIR and the progress of the accelerator center FAIR, currently being built at GSI. He was accompanied by his personal advisor Frank Backhaus and Dr. Sebastian Huber, head of the “Radiation Protection, Large Accelerators, Emergency Protection” department. The guests were welcomed...
The 26th International Conference on Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources (ECRIS 2024) recently took place in Darmstadt. Organized by the Ion Sources Department of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, the conference brought together leading international scientists and engineers working on the development, operation, and applications of ECR ion sources. The ECRIS conference series is regarded to be the key platform for the exchanging research results and technological…
Recently, Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science & Technology (DST) together with a delegation from India visited FAIR. This visit took place on invitation by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which also participated in the visit with a delegation led by Stefan Müller, Director General Provision for the Future – Basic Research and Research for Sustainable Development, BMBF. They were accompanied by ...
With funding of four million euros as part of the ‘EU MSCA Doctoral Networks’, and additional funding of 600 000 euros through the Swiss State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation SERI, the European research project ‘UPLIFT’ was recently launched, aiming to expand the perspectives of tumor therapy with an innovative approach. The project is led by GSI scientists Professor Christian Graeff and Dr. Lennart Volz. It brings together 15 leading ...
Professor Marco Durante, head of the Biophysics Research Department at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, was recently awarded the Ellen Gleditsch Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters. The award ceremony took place during the Academy's public conference on “Proton Therapy - Physics meets Medicine” in Oslo.
Hands-on science: Last Saturday, visitors from near and far flocked to Roßmarkt to find out more about research from Frankfurt and the surrounding area. The big event, put together by the Frankfurt Alliance, featured an exciting stage program and lots of activities. GSI/FAIR offered insights into the function of particle accelerators and their scientific work with two hands-on experiments.
This year, 31 students from 16 countries took part in the Summer Student Program at GSI and FAIR. They spent eight weeks on campus, got to know the experiments and research fields of GSI and FAIR and immersed themselves in the atmosphere of an international accelerator laboratory. The photo contest of the summer students gives insights.
This year's SPARC collaboration PhD Prize was awarded to Dr. Stephan Dickopf from the University of Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics for his thesis entitled “High-precision Penning-trap measurements of the magnetic moments and hyperfine splitting in hydrogen-like beryllium-9”. The ceremony took place in the framework of the 21st SPARC Topical Workshop at the University of Münster, where the award was handed over by Professor Andrey Surzhykov of the…
