In Hamburg, DESY offers opportunities for master and doctoral theses in the following fields of research: particle physics, photon science, and accelerator physics and technology. DESY in Hamburg does not grant the degrees directly but collaborates with several universities, predominantly with the university of Hamburg. Candidates will have to comply with the universities' terms of admission for master and doctoral theses.


Particle physics

Experimental particle physics at the LHC: Investigations of proton collisions at the highest energies, testing the Standard Model and searching for new particles and phenomena, detector developments for upgrades to the LHC experiments

Contact ATLAS: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gregor (Ingrid.Gregor@desy.de), Dr. Klaus Moenig (Klaus.Moenig@desy.de) Kontakt CMS: Dr. Isabell Melzer-Pellmann (Isabell.Melzer-Pellmann@desy.de), Dr. Andreas Mussgiller (Andreas.Mussgiller@desy.de)

Experimental particle physics at Belle II
Contact BELLE II: Dr. Armine Rostomyan (Armine.Rostomyan@desy.de), Dr. Thibaud Humair (thibaud.humair@desy.de)

Research and development for future experiments in particle physics
Contact FTX: Dr. Frank Gaede (Frank.Gaede@desy.de), Dr. Jenny List (Jenny.List@desy.de)

ALPS: Experiments searching for novel, very light and very weakly interacting particles
Contact ALPS: Dr. Axel Lindner (Axel.Lindner@desy.de), Dr. Friederike Januschek (Friederike.Januschek@desy.de)

Theory of particle physics: The theory group works in the fields of elementary particle phenomenology, particle cosmology, string theory and mathematical physics.
Contact T: Prof. Dr. Christophe Grojean (Christophe.Grojean@desy.de), Prof. Dr. Volker Schomerus (Volker.Schomerus@desy.de), Prof. Dr. Geraldine Servant (Geraldine.Servant@desy.de), Prof. Dr. Georg Weiglein (Georg.Weiglein@desy.de)

Accelerator physics

Research on physical basics of classical and advanced accelerator types 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 X-ray laser European XFEL.
Contact:
Dr. Ralph Aßmann (ralph.assmann@desy.de)
Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner (florian.gruener@desy.de)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillert (wolfgang.hillert@desy.de)

Current topics for theses
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Master's & PhD Opportunities - Thesis topics in Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and seismic data analysis
 

Photon science

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

Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL): 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)