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Annual planner
This large-format, DIN A2 calendar provides a clear overview of all public and school holidays, and offers plenty of space for personal notes. With attractive images from GSI and FAIR, it’s a practical companion throughout the year. GSI and FAIR employees can pick up their copy from the foyer or at the reception desk on Borsigsstraße. Interested external parties can receive a copy by mail. Simply send an email with name, address and quantity to kalender@gsi.de (max. three per order).



Thomas Nilsson hands over a flower bouquet to Andrea Fischer
At its meeting on November 13, 2025, the GSI Supervisory Board unanimously elected Dr. Andrea Fischer as new chair. Andrea Fischer is head of the subdivision “Large-Scale Facilities and Basic Research” at the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space. Andrea Fischer has held responsible and strategically important positions in the Ministry of Research and in committees for GSI and FAIR for many years and has extensive knowledge of corporate structures. She was head of the department in…



Insight into the GSI/FAIR Green IT Cube during the Open Data Center Day (TdoRZ)
On the occasion of Open Data Center Day (TdoRZ), 78 participants and two school classes took the opportunity to visit the Green IT Cube high-performance data center on the GSI/FAIR campus. Guided tours allowed them a look at the data center's particularly sustainable and energy-efficient technology and informed them about its scientific applications.



Signing of the C-MoU
The Czech Republic, Aspirant Partner of FAIR, provides detector modules to be used in FAIR’s Super Fragment Separator (Super-FRS) as part of the NUSTAR experiment pillar. A respective Memorandum of Understanding regarding construction (so-called C-MoU) was recently signed by Professor Thomas Nilsson, Scientific Managing Director of FAIR and GSI, and Jörg Blaurock, Technical Managing Director of FAIR and GSI, during the “NUSTAR Week 2025” collaboration meeting in Prague.



Hessian State Parliament Member Sebastian Sommer (CDU) (2nd from left) visited GSI/FAIR together with his Head of Office, Daniel Georgi (r.). They were welcomed by the GSI/FAIR management.
Hessian State Parliament Member Sebastian Sommer (CDU) visited GSI/FAIR together with his Head of Office, Daniel Georgi, to learn about the scientific activities and the construction progress of the international accelerator facility FAIR. The guests were welcomed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Nilsson, Scientific Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, Dr. Katharina Stummeyer, Administrative Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, Jörg Blaurock, Technical Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, as well as Dr. Ingo Peter…



Professor Peter Mulser
We mourn the loss of our long-time colleague Professor Peter Mulser, who passed away on September 26, 2025, at the age of 88. Professor Mulser was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Physics Department of Technical University Darmstadt from 1981 to 2001. He conducted research on high-intensity light-matter interaction at the Institute of Applied Physics and worked closely with the GSI/FAIR Plasma Physics group from the very beginning. He passed on his extensive knowledge to many students,…



Signing of the final acceptance documents
Slovenia has successfully completed its in-kind contribution to FAIR. Jörg Blaurock, Technical Managing Director of FAIR and GSI, signed the final acceptance documents together with representatives of Tehnodrom, the Slovenian FAIR partner organization. Next to the signatories, also government officials, researchers from the Jožef Stefan Institute, and industry stakeholders participated in the ceremonial event held at Cosylab’s headquarters in Ljubljana.



At the parliamentary evening in Berlin.
“MegaScience Project FAIR – Commissioning of the international particle accelerator facility in Darmstadt begins”: Under this headline, the management of FAIR and GSI – Scientific Managing Director Professor Dr. Thomas Nilsson, Administrative Managing Director Dr. Katharina Stummeyer, and Technical Managing Director Jörg Blaurock, invited to a parliamentary evening in Berlin. The event was held under the patronage of Dr. Michael Meister, Minister of State for Federal-State Cooperation. Numerous…



Awarding ceremony
This year's SPARC collaboration PhD Prize was awarded to Dr. Guy Leckenby from University of British Columbia, Canada, for his thesis entitled “Exotic Decay Measurements at the Experimental Storage Ring for Neutron Capture Processes”. The ceremony took place in the framework of the 22nd SPARC Topical Workshop at the University of Ioannina, Greece, where the award was handed over by Prof. Reinhold Schuch from the University of Stockholm and the spokesperson of the SPARC collaboration.




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