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06.08.2014
Minister-President of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke visits DESY
Today, Dietmar Woidke, Minister-President of Brandenburg, visited the research centre DESY to inform himself about the current projects at the DESY institute in the federal state of Brandenburg. On a Zeuthen campus tour, he visited the accelerator test facility PITZ, the DESY school lab and the workshops. Moreover, he was briefed about the present research and development work at the institute.
Dietmar Woidke, Minister-President of Brandenburg (left), and Christian Stegmann, head of the DESY Zeuthen institute, during a visit to the school lab.
“DESY is well known worldwide for its top-class research,” said Woidke when he visited the institute. “For many years, it does pioneering work and is also regarded as a talent factory.”
“The federal state of Brandenburg gives us a great deal of support, also for the advancement of our research focus,” said Professor Christian Stegmann, head of the DESY institute in Zeuthen, on the occasion of the visit. “We are very grateful for that, because the DESY Zeuthen institute needs this continuity on its path to become Germany’s centre for astroparticle physics.”
With 200 staff members and an annual budget of 19 million euros, the DESY Zeuthen institute is one of the largest scientific institutions in Brandenburg. PITZ, operated by the research centre, is the only accelerator facility of this federal state; additional research areas include particle and astroparticle physics. In particular with its intensive participation in various cosmic gamma-ray and neutrino telescopes, the Zeuthen institute is developing into the German centre for astroparticle physics.
An important aspect for the region is education and training at DESY: Apart from academic education and the school-labs, industrial and technical DESY trainees regularly are among the best in Brandenburg.
