Dr. Ralph Aßmann has been appointed as cooperative professor in the Department of Physics at Goethe University. The internationally renowned expert in the field of accelerator physics heads the business area “Accelerator Operation and Development (ACC)” at GSI/FAIR. In this function, Aßmann is responsible for the operation of the existing accelerator facilities and for the integration and commissioning of the international particle accelerator facility FAIR, which is currently under…

The Scientific Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, Professor Thomas Nilsson, will be even more closely involved in the scientific and research landscape in the region in future: He is an “Affiliate Professor” at TU Darmstadt and is now officially associated with the Department of Physics. TU Darmstadt recently awarded this academic title to an internationally outstanding scientific personality for the first time. The award was ...

Professor Marco Durante, Head of the Biophysics Department at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and Professor at the Department of Physics at TU Darmstadt, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, has been granted a prestigious European Union research funding award for established scientists: The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded him the renowned Advanced Grant. The biophysicist will be able to use the millions in funding to realize an ambitious research project ...