PIER Graduate Week 2019
This year's PIER Graduate Week takes place from 23- 26 September 2019 in the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science. The graduate week's main objective is to introduce PhD students to the ...
Overview
Guest lecture with Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talk: Marketing for High-Tech Startups
What are the peculiarities of marketing for a tech company? How do I develop a marketing strategy? And what channels should I use? These and other questions will be answered by Michel Clement, ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talks: Starting and Running a Software-Based Company
What are the challenges when founding a software company? How do I identify a niche for my business? These and other questions will be answered by Lasse Schuirmann, founder of several software-based ...
PIER Short Visits Grantee Gerhard Klimeck Receives Humboldt Research Award
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talks: Gründungsförderung für Tech Start-Ups (Vortrag auf Deutsch)
Welche öffentlichen Fördermittel gibt es für technologiebasierte Gründungen in Hamburg? Was sind die Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen, um Zuschüsse für ein Gründungsvorhaben zu erhalten? ...
Wissen vom Fass 2019
Todesopfer beim Spinnensex? Das Schweigen der Leber? „Wissen vom Fass“ bringt das Kopfkino in Schwung. Am Donnerstag, dem 25. April 2019, werden Hamburgs Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler ...
Career after your PhD
Career after your PhD: Academia, business, industry or science management? A two-day career fair for 100 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from DESY and the Faculty of Mathematics, ...
DASHH - The graduate school for datascience in Hamburg is recruiting PhD researchers
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talks: Startup Support at DESY & UHH
You have a brilliant business idea, but don’t know which steps to take next in order to turn it into a company? You are looking for advice on how to set up a business plan or find funding for your ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talks: The Ideal Startup Team: Does It Really Exist?
Successful startups rely not only on smart business ideas but also on the people behind them. But is there really something like the ideal startup team? And if yes, what does it look like? These and ...
PIER Hamburg-MIT Network Workshop
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 ...
Second Round of PIER Innovation Lunch Talks
With the new year slowly coming into full swing, PIER is pleased to announce the second round of the PIER Innovation Lunch Talks! The opening talk will take place on 21 February 2019, 12 noon. Under ...
PIER PhD Reception 2018
This year's PIER PhD reception took place on 11 December in the foyer of Hamburg's Center for Free-Electron Laser Science. More than 120 PhD students, their supervisors, friends, ...
Fixed roles and how to become more diverse
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. ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talk: Starting and Running a Hardware-based Start-Up
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 ...
Alexander Knetsch receives doctoral students' prize
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talks: What Does the Perfect Pitch Look Like?
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 ...
PIER Graduate Week 2018
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 ...
PIER Coordinates New Research Network with MIT
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 ...
PIER Seed Projects 2018: New Projects Selected for Funding
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talks: Startup Knowledge - How to Apply for a Bank Loan
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 ...
PIER at GAIN Meeting 2018 in Boston
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 ...
PIER Funding: Workshops and Short Visits
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talk: Hidden Assumptions and Typical Pitfalls When Founding in Tech
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 ...
dynaMENT: Mentoring programme kick-off
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talk: Business Plan, Business Model Canvas and Pitch
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talk: Starting a Company in the Life Sciences
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 ...
Business meets Physics
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 ...
PIER Innovation Lunch Talk: Inventions and Patents
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 Innovation Lunch Talk: Starting a Tech Company
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 ...
PIER Start-Up Workshop 2017
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 ...
New PIER Seed Projects selected for funding
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 ...
Chaired by: Karl Jansen
Speaker: BANERJEE, Debasish (DESY), BANULS, Marie Carmen
Location: DESY Hamburg, Bldg. 90, ZOQ