At a top-level meeting at the former nuclear power plant site in Biblis, Minister President Boris Rhein described laser-based nuclear fusion as a key technology for a clean and economical energy supply. Professor Thomas Nilsson, Scientific Director of GSI and FAIR, also took part in the meeting and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on nuclear fusion together with numerous representatives from politics, business and science.

The CBM Collaboration awarded the “Best Thesis Award 2024” to an outstanding PhD thesis. The prize went to Dr. Kshitij Agarwal and was presented recently during the CBM Collaboration Meeting. The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment is one of the central research pillars of the international accelerator center FAIR, which is currently being built at GSI. Dr. Kshitij Agarwal defended his PhD thesis at the University of Tübingen, Germany. With his thesis “Thermal Management of the Silicon…

Professor Marco Durante, Head of the Biophysics Research Department at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, has been honored with the „BIR Medal for Outstanding International Achievement 2024“ for outstanding international achievement. The award ceremony recently took place during the Annual Radiotherapy and Oncology Meeting of the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) in London.

Scientists of GSI/FAIR’s ALICE research department again this year organized the ALICE Masterclass. On that day, 19 high-school students had the opportunity to analyze data from the ALICE experiment at the CERN research center during a visit to the GSI/FAIR campus. GSI/FAIR significantly contributes to the construction, operation and data analysis of ALICE.

Members of the Hessian Parliament Nina Eisenhardt, Miriam Dahlke and Hildegard Förster-Heldmann recently visited GSI/FAIR to inform themselves about the latest scientific activities and the construction progress of the international accelerator facility FAIR. They were welcomed by Dr. Katharina Stummeyer, Administrative Director of GSI and FAIR, Jörg Blaurock, Technical Director of GSI and FAIR, and Professor Dr. Thomas Nilsson, Scientific Director of GSI and FAIR.  At the beginning, the…

GSI and FAIR mourn the loss of an excellent scientist and pioneer of relativistic heavy ion physics. Professor Dr. Hans Gutbrod passed away on March 3, 2025, at the age of 82 years. After his dissertation under the supervision of Rudolf Bock in 1970 Hans Gutbrod continued his research on heavy ion physics at low energies in Heidelberg and Rochester. Hans Gutbrod shaped the beginnings of the relativistic heavy ion physics at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He collaborated with Arthur…

What does recruiting young talent have to do with tabletop soccer? That's what xx interested participants and yy apprenticeship employers were able to find out at “Karriere Kick” in the Böllenfalltorhalle in Darmstadt at the beginning of February. Similar to speed dating, young people and training companies are drawn by lot in each round and get to know each other in a playful way during a round of tabletop soccer. GSI/FAIR took part and even won second place in the election of the best…

The great progress of the FAIR project, the milestones of research at GSI/FAIR, and the current scientific activities were the focus of the visit of Cem Özdemir, Federal Minister of Education and Research, and Timon Gremmels, Hessian Minister of Science and Research, Art and Culture, at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator center FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) being built in Darmstadt.