Center for Free-Electron Laser Science

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In the CFEL building, everyone is under one roof: scientists, engineers, students and staff for technical and administrative tasks

Transparent foil cushions cover the center of the CFEL building, whose rooms invite exchange and collaboration. With over 200 publications every year, researchers at CFEL make valuable contributions to a wide range of research questions. The quality and significance of this work is often so high that it is published in the most important specialist journals. Internationally, the CFEL competence center therefore attracts a great deal of attention from the...

HARBOR

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HARBORAn interdisciplinary center for nanophysics, chemistry and structural biology located in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld

The interdisciplinary research building "Hamburg Advanced Research Centre for Bioorganic Chemistry" (HARBOR) of the Cluster of Excellence "CUI:Advanced Imaging of Matter" combines research on fundamental aspects of molecular properties through to applied structural biology studies of proteins. The research goal is to understand how (bio)macromolecular systems function. Click here for the HARBOR

Competence center for digitization in the natural sciences

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Sustainable use: The Competence Centre for Digitization in the Natural Sciences has moved into an existing building in the city.

The interdisciplinary center of excellence for digitalization in the natural sciences on Albert Einstein Ring is home to the "Hub of Computing and Data Science" (HCDS), the "Center for Data and Computing in Natural Sciences" (CDCS), the Center for Bioinformatics (ZBH) and the Institute for Computational Systems Biology (CoSy.Bio), an important interdisciplinary and future-oriented topic: Data Science . Here...

Institute for Experimental Physics

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Institute for Experimental Physics

At the Institute of Experimental Physics (IEP), researchers from physics, physical chemistry and biochemistry investigate the temporal behavior of molecular biological systems, as well as earth-bound and space-based detection of gravitational waves. In astrophysics and particle physics, the focus is on the experimental search for dark matter. Click here for the IEP

PETRA III

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PETRA III is DESY's ring accelerator for X-ray experiments. The research facility delivers a beam of light of a brilliance rarely available anywhere in the world.

DESY operates one of the brightest storage ring X-ray radiation sources in the world: PETRA III offers scientists excellent experimental opportunities with X-rays of particularly high brilliance. Researchers who want to examine very small samples or require highly focused, very short-wave X-ray light for their analyses - from medical research to nanotechnology - benefit from this in particular. When it was inaugurated in 1978, the...

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