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PIER Innovation Lunch Talks: Starting and Running a Hardware-based Start-Up

22 November 2018

What are challenges and pitfalls in technical sales? How do I manage my cashflow? What is it like from an expat’s perspective to run a startup in Germany? These and other questions will be answered by Haynes Cheng, CTO of the DESY spin-off Cycle GmbH, during the next PIER Innovation Lunch Talk. Join us for a get-together after the talk, discuss further questions with the ...

PIER Innovation Lunch Talks: What Does the Perfect Pitch Look Like?

25 October 2018

How can I convince others of my business idea within just a few minutes? What are essential elements of a successful pitch? These and other questions will be answered by Bianca Praetorius, a private pitch coach with long-standing experience in coaching tech start-ups, during the next PIER Innovation Lunch Talk. Join us for a get-together after the talk, discuss further ...

PIER Graduate Week 2018

11 October 2018

The poster prize winners with the jury: Fredrik Westerlund, Mohammad Vakili, Mia Lahey-Rudolph, Karolina Stachnik, Daniela Pfannkuche, Ramakrishna Vasireddi (from left to right). Photograph: Jennifer Vix

More than 120 PhD and master's students have attended the fifth PIER Graduate Week from 8 - 11 October 2018 in Hamburg's Center for Free-Electron Laser Science. The four-day workshop and lecture week, in which national and international speakers had offered a wide range of introductory and focus courses in the PIER research fields Particle and Astroparticle Physics, ...