Diploma and doctoral theses at DESY in Hamburg

In Hamburg DESY offers opportunities for diploma and doctoral theses in the following fields:
> particle physics
> photon science
> accelerator physics and technology

DESY in Hamburg does not grant diploma or doctoral degrees directly but collaborates with several universities, predominantly with the University of Hamburg. Candidates for thesis research will have to satisfy the universities' terms of admission for diploma and doctoral theses.

Particle physics

Experimental particle physics at the LHC
Study of proton collisions at the highest energies, tests of the standard model and search for new particles and phenomena
Contact ATLAS: Dr. Klaus Moenig (Klaus.Moenig@desy.de)
Contact CMS: Dr. Matthias Kasemann (Matthias.Kasemann@desy.de)

Experimental particle physics with high-energy electron-positron collisions
Contact: Dr. Ties Behnke (Ties.Behnke@desy.de)

Experimental particle physics at Belle II
Contact: Dr. Carsten Niebuhr (Carsten.Niebuhr@desy.de)

ALPS
Experiment searching for new, very light and weakly interacting particles
Contact ALPS: Dr. Axel Lindner (Axel.Lindner@desy.de)

Particle physics theory
The theory group works in the fields of phenomenology of elementary particles, particle cosmology, string theory and mathematical physics.

Contact

Photon science

Photon science at DESY
Utilization of synchrotron radiation and X-ray laser radiation in experiments in natural science, life science, earth science and materials science
Contact: Dr. Tim Laarmann (tim.laarmann@desy.de)

Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science
Fundamental and applied research using novel X-ray sources (free-electron lasers) for the investigation of materials and biological systems on atomic length and time scales
Contact: Prof. Dr. Henry Chapman (henry.chapman@desy.de)

Accelerator physics

Basic research on classical and advanced accelerator physics and collaboration in the technical implementation of linear and circular accelerators for particle physics and for the generation of synchrotron radiation, including the free-electron lasers FLASH and European XFEL.

Contact:
Dr. Ralph Aßmann (ralfph.assmann@desy.de)
Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner (florian.gruener@desy.de)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillert (wolfgang.hillert@desy.de )
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rossbach (joerg.rossbach@desy.de)
Dr. Bernhard Schmidt (bernhard.schmidt@desy.de)

Doctoral programme of Accelerator Research and Devlelopment