Ties Behnke

Director in charge of Particle Physics (interim)

Ties Behnke was acting director of DESY’s Particle Physics Division from January 2021 to February 2022 and took on this role again in April 2025.

Ties Behnke already worked as a postdoc at DESY, but also carried out research at CERN and SLAC. In 1998, he became a lead scientist at DESY. He is coordinator of the Helmholtz Alliance “Physics at the Terascale” and spokesperson of the Helmholtz research programme “Matter and Technologies”.