Dr. Zewei Xiong has received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The funding is one of Europe's most important research awards, aimed at talented young scientists at an early career stage to show their potential as a research leader. Dr. Zewei Xiong is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Nuclear Astrophysics and Structure Department at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung.

The “ESA FAIR Space Radiation Summer School 2024” is entering a new round: With its first-class training program and high-level expertise, linked to a global network, the training offer for young scientists is once again attracting great international interest this year. Currently, 15 young researchers from ten countries have the unique opportunity in Darmstadt to focus intensively on the topic of cosmic radiation. The renowned summer school for radiation research is jointly organized...

Professor Dr. Jens Limpert and Privatdozent Dr. Jan Rothhardt are awarded the EPS-QEOD Prize for Research in Laser Technology and Applications 2024 in recognicion of their groundbreaking research “for the development of compact coherent high-performance extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light sources and material-specific nanoscale EUV imaging”. This prestigious award is presented every two years by the Division of Quantum Electronics and Optics of the European Physical Society (EPS) and recognizes…

The CDU member of the Bundestag Dr. Astrid Mannes from the Darmstadt constituency recently informed herself about the current scientific activities at GSI/FAIR and the progress of the future accelerator center FAIR, which is being built at GSI. She was accompanied by CDU district manager Nicolai Adler from her constituency office. The guests were welcomed...

María Eugenia Toimil-Molares, head of the GSI/FAIR Materials Research Department and Professor of Ion-Beam Modified Materials in the Department for Material- and Geosciences of the Technical University of Darmstadt, has acquired funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) amounting to around 350000 euros for the work package “Investigation of transient transport processes using individual gold nanopores as model systems” as part of the TRANSIEVES project. TRANSIEVES is a joint project ...

The lecture series „Wissenschaft für Alle“ of GSI and FAIR will be continued as a hybrid format in the second half of 2024. Interested parties can either attend the event in the lecture hall of GSI/FAIR following a registration or dial into the broadcast of the event via video conference using an internet-enabled device such as a laptop, cell phone or tablet. The program will begin on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, with a talk about the evolution of the Universe by Professor Karlheinz Langanke of…

The starting signal for the installation of the FAIR accelerator machine has been given. The high-precision assembly work in the buildings of the international FAIR accelerator facility in Darmstadt has begun: The first magnets each weighing tons were successfully positioned in the ring tunnel, 17 meters underground. This marks a decisive step forward in the realization of the state-of-the-art accelerator, which will accelerate ions of all elements up to 99 percent of the speed of light...

The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung recently commissioned a cutting-edge electroplating facility. This new facility, which is one of the largest of its kind in the world, completely replaces the existing electroplating facility on the campus. It will take over the copper plating tasks for accelerator components at GSI and FAIR, in particular the coating of the new cavities of the UNILAC linear accelerator, which will serve as injector for FAIR in the future. After successfully…

The ELMA research project, jointly presented by the University of Trieste and GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, has been awarded €150,000 to conduct a study of the energy response of monolithic silicon pixel sensors (MAPS), thanks to funding provided by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) within the Cultural Cooperation framework between Italy and Germany. The framework aims at facilitating the access of Italian scientists to world-class large research…