What are challenges and pitfalls in technical sales? 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 ...
Association of the Friends and Supporters of DESY presents doctoral students’ prize Alexander Knetsch and Stefan Zeller have been awarded the 2018 doctoral students’ prize by the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers from DESY, Universität Hamburg (UHH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have laid the basis for a joint „Trans-Atlantic Grand Challenges Research Network“. The aim of ...
In the recent call for PIER Seed Projects, five proposals have been selected by the jury to receive seed funding out of the PIER Idea Fund. 13 applications had been submitted to the PIER Office until ...
How do I go about applying for a bank loan as a young entrepreneur? What are dos and don’ts that I should know about? These and other questions will be answered by Reinhard Hahn, a former bank ...
At this year’s GAIN Meeting which took place on September 7-9 in Boston, PIER presented research opportunities on the Bahrenfeld campus to German early-career scientists currently working in the ...
Are you interested in planning a scientific workshop? Would you like to invite a researcher from abroad? Apply for funding at PIER! PIER Workshops promote idea-finding processes and scientific ...
Have a Cup of Coffee at the DESY Start-Up Office Camp Out! If you are interested in entrepreneurship, find out more about options for spinning off. Or simply get in touch with others who are ...
What does “sales” mean in reality? Where should I set my priorities: sell what I have or develop the next product? And what typical errors can I avoid when founding in tech? These and other ...
The criteria that are necessary to succeed in science are given and have to be fulfilled. The path to success, however, is a broad playing field in which professional mentoring can be extremely ...
How do I put together a business plan? What is the use of a Business Model Canvas? And what does the perfect pitch to investors look like? These and other questions were answered by Hanno Kellner ...
Mit einem Getränk in der Hand den neuesten Erkenntnissen aus der Wissenschaft lauschen? Am Tresen mit Forschern über ihre aktuellen Projekte plaudern? Kurz: Abends ausgehen und dabei etwas lernen? ...
How do I start a science-based business? What unexpected obstacles need to be considered before founding a company? These and other questions were answered by Dr. Tobias Gräwert, managing director ...
Why would media, logistics or health care be interesting for physicists? How can state-of-the-art technology, research and marketing be successfully matched? How can innovative and interdisciplinary ...
What is a patent? How can I protect an invention? What are my obligations towards my employer? These and other questions were answered by Jörg Faupel, patent attorney at the Hamburg-based law firm ...
PIER Seed Projects 2017 PIER Seed Projects promote innovative research ideas in the PIER research fields Particle & Astroparticle Physics, Nanoscience, Photon Science, Infection & Structural ...
How do you start your own tech business? What can be possible pitfalls? These and other questions were answered by Nicolas Stübe, CEO of the DESY startup suna precision GmbH, during the first PIER ...
Alena Wiegandt, alumna of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School from the research group of Professor Bernd Meyer has received the 2017 prize for the best PhD thesis of Hamburg University's chemistry ...
The second PIER Start-Up Workshop took place on 8 December 2017. Under the title “Is it for you? Creating business ideas from research”, PhD students and postdocs from the PIER ...
This year's PIER PhD reception took place on 5 December in the newly opened auditorium of Hamburg's Center for Structural System Biology (CSSB). More than 80 PhD students, their ...
In the recent call for PIER Seed Projects, nine proposals have been selected by the jury to receive seed funding out of the PIER Idea Fund. 22 applications had been submitted to the PIER Office until ...
Career after your PhD: Academia, industry or science management? For the first time, a two-day career fair for more than 100 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers of the Faculty of ...
Johann Haber, alumnus of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School from the DESY research group of Ralf Röhlsberger, received the Helmholtz Doctoral Prize 2017 for his PhD thesis in the research field ...
Björn Arndt recently won the Student / Young Scientist Prize of the International Conference on the Structure of Surfaces (ICSOS) 2017 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. The prize carried ...
On July 13th DOIT hosted their second 3on3 basketball tournament at the DESY basketball court. This event was organized in cooperation of DOIT and the “Herzliches Lockstedt e.V.”, a non-profit ...
The PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS) congratulates its member, Hendrik Schlicke, PhD student in the group of Prof. Horst Weller at the University of Hamburg, who participated as Young Scientist ...
On 11 May 2017, the PIER running team of 19 young scientists from DESY and Universität Hamburg participated for the fifth time in the company running event "B2RUN". 7800 runners from ...
