Facts and Figures about GSI
Foundation | 1969 |
Associates | Federal Republic of Germany (90%), State of Hesse (8%), State of Rhineland-Palatinate (1%), Free State of Thuringia (1%) |
Member | Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren |
Mission | Construction and operation of accelerator facilities and research with heavy ions |
Budget | Institutional funding: €164.6 million, further resources: €23.1 million (status 2020) |
Staff | 1,520 employees |
Visiting scientists | 1,200 scientists from universities and research institutes all over the world, including more than 350 master and doctoral candidates |
Apprenticeship | approx. 30 apprentices in technical and commercial professions |
Young researchers | more than 350 doctoral candidates in our graduate school HGS-HIRe for FAIR |
Scientific cooperations | Global cooperations with approximately 400 institutes from more than 50 countries |
Large facility equipment | Linear Accelerator UNILAC Heavy Ion Synchrotron SIS Experimental Storage Ring ESR Fragment separator FRS Highenergy-/Highperformance Laser PHELIX Several large spectrometer and detector systems Medical irradiation facility for cancer therapy Participation in the ALICE detector of the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN |