A science video is an entertaining form of science communication!
Ever wanted to try out Video for yourself as a form to communicate your research to a broader audience? This is your chance to ...
PIER is pleased to announce its next PIER Start-Up Workshop “Business Modeling” for early-stage researchers (PhD students and Postdocs), taking place on 24 June 2022.
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Wow, thank you all for coming! It was a blast. We had so much fun at the 1st PIER Science Slam on May 4 in the DESY Auditorium.
In the five-day course “Advanced Python - Analysis and Visualization of Scientific Data” the
participants learn the most fundamental skills for analyzing (large) scientific data ...
PIER is pleased to announce the upcoming startup workshop “From Potential to Prototype” organized by the Young Entrepreneurs in Science program (YES) of the Falling Walls Foundation in ...
Dr. Annika Vauth is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Erika Garutti at the Institute of Experimental Physics of Universität Hamburg. In 2020, she successfully applied for seed funding ...
Dr. Chithra Sharma is Postdoctoral Humboldt Research Fellow at the Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN) at Universität Hamburg. In 2021, she was granted funding by PIER under its PIER Seed ...
PIER is pleased to announce its next PIER Start-Up Workshop “Design Thinking” for early stage researchers (PhD students and Postdocs), taking place on 8 April 2022 via Zoom meeting.
PIER is pleased to announce its next PIER Innovation Lunch Talk "From Idea to Market - Validating a Product Idea in High-Tech“ taking place remotely (via Zoom) on March 24th, 2022, 12 noon ...
The next PIER Graduate Week is scheduled for 21-24 February 2022. Due to the pandemic, the event will take place in a slightly scaled-down online form. The graduate week's main objective is to ...
New year, new faces: In January, Prof. Dr. Francesca Calegari took up office as the new chairperson of the PIER Executive Board which she will head for the next five years. She succeeds Prof. Dr. ...
You are an early-career researcher at DESY or UHH/UKE? You have an innovative idea for a joint DESY/UHH (or UKE) research project? Apply now for seed funding at PIER! PIER Seed Projects promote ...
When communicating your own research, a blogpost is a quick and easy way to publish your own thoughts and explanations in your own time, and by your own rules. Without an editor giving you ...
On November 16th, 2021, PIER hosted a remote workshop on “Future joint research perspectives of DESY and Universität Hamburg in the context of Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld (SCHB)”. ...
Wow, what a week! Between September 21 and 24 we not only had our Podcasting workshop but we also recorded episodes with each of the 7 participants. After some amazing cutting and mixing by our ...
Scientific Writing: Turning the Blank Page into a Manuscript Publications of research results is the currency in modern science. It might not be your favorite occupation, but it is a decisive one, ...
Advancing my Scientific Career and Selling my Scientific Output In this interactive workshop you will acquire powerful skills to effectively sell your scientific results and advance your ...
What are your biases? What motivates you? How can you communicate your research? In October, PIER organizes a lecture Mini-series in which you will learn how unconcious biases impact your ...
PHGS member Felix Ritzkowsky is currently pursuing his PhD in the group of Prof. Franz Kärtner (DESY /UHH). As part of the PIER Hamburg-MIT/Boston Seed Project “Fabrication and ...
In September, the PIER Education Platform offers an interesting package for all those PhD students and Postdocs interested in professionalizing their job search and applications. So if you might be ...
PIER is pleased to announce its next PIER Innovation Lunch Talk "How to transform your research into real products: learnings from high-growth startups“ taking place remotely (via Zoom) on ...
You are an early-career researcher at DESY or UHH/UKE? You have an innovative research idea and would like to develop it further? Apply now for seed funding at PIER! PIER Seed Projects promote ...
On 11-12 March 2021, 12 early career researchers from DESY and University of Hamburg came together to create something new. They had signed up for a Science Communication Workshop on the PIER ...
In 2018 PIER co-funded the XXI International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP 2018) that took place in Hamburg with DESY lead scientist Franz X. Kärtner acting as UP 2018 Program and Local ...
PIER is pleased to announce its first PIER Innovation Lunch Talk of the year "Xploraytion...an example of a successful scientific service startup" taking place remotely (via Zoom) on 14 January 2021, ...
PIER is pleased to announce its next PIER Innovation Lunch Talk "From Science to Innovation - Founding a Technology Startup Part-Time" taking place remotely (via Zoom) on 26 November 2020, 12 ...
On August 31st, 2020, PIER organized an online information event titled “The Bahrenfeld research campus in the context of the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld (SCHB)”. Its aim was to ...
How can I fix the camera during an online presentation so that the picture looks good? How do I get my voice under control? How do I generally present myself well? How do I develop a career goal and ...
You are a researcher at DESY or UHH/UKE? You have an innovative research idea and would like to develop it further? Apply now for seed funding at PIER! PIER Seed Projects promote innovative and ...
This year's PIER PhD reception took place on 10 December in the foyer of Hamburg's Center for Free-Electron Laser Science. More than 200 PhD students, their supervisors, friends, ...
Cannon Vogel, 22, recently completed his bachelor's degree in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), specializing in theoretical and computational particle cosmology. At present, ...
Theoretical Physics Symposium 2019 The Wolfgang Pauli Centre for Theoretical Physics, a joint forum of the Universität Hamburg and DESY, organizes a three day Symposium on Theoretical Physics, ...
PAULI LECTURES 2019 by Prof. Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech, IPMU Tokyo) The concept of Calabi-Yau manifolds plays an essential role in string theory. We will first review the definition and some of ...
PIER is proud to present Dr. Mark Hartney, Chief Technology Officer of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, as Industry Talk speaker during the next PIER Graduate Week. Dr. Hartney will share his ...
On 24 June 2019, more than 200 people crowded into the auditorium of the Center for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) to listen to Saul Perlmutter, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics and ...
Prof. Gerhard Klimeck of Purdue University, visiting international researcher at the Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN) of Universität Hamburg, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt ...
DASHH is a newly established, interdisciplinary graduate school that offers challenging PhD topics at the interface of the natural sciences, applied mathematics, and data and computer science. DASHH ...
On 21-22 January 2019, researchers from different Hamburg research institutions met with colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Hamburg Bahrenfeld to sound out future ...
German-English event organized by CUI together with DESY-GB and PIER examined stereotypes and biases from different perspectives. Stereotypes are a huge obstacle for developing an equal society. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
