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Dr. Ralph Aßmann
GSI/FAIR's business area “Accelerator Operations & Development (ACC)” has a new head: Dr. Ralph Aßmann took over the position on September 1, 2023, and will in future manage GSI's existing accelerator facilities and plan the integration and commissioning of FAIR.



The Summer Students visit the FAIR viewpoint
33 students from 20 countries participated in this year’s Summer Student Program at GSI and FAIR. They spent eight weeks on campus, learning about experiments and research fields of GSI and FAIR and experiencing the atmosphere at an international accelerator laboratory.



Group photo of the students of Jagiellonen University at GSI/FAIR
Students from a scientific club at the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, recently visited GSI and FAIR to learn about the various opportunities in science and technology and gain insight into cutting-edge research at GSI/FAIR.



Illustration of a kilonova.
A scientifically outstanding article by GSI scientists has now been prominently highlighted by the renowned journal European Physical Journal D (EPJ D) on their news page as well as on the Springer Research news page...



From left: Dr. Jürgen Spitzer, Chairman of the KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V.(KFG), award winner Dr. Lennart Volz, Professor Dr. Johannes Blümer, Deputy Chairman of the KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V. (KFG).
Dr. Lennart Volz from the GSI Department of Biophysics has received the Otto Haxel Award for Physics. He received the prize for his dissertation on "Particle imaging for daily in-room image guidance in particle therapy". The award ceremony took place at the KFG summer event in Karlsruhe, organized by the "KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V.".



The penning trap LIONTRAP in Mainz
Using the LIONTRAP setup in Mainz, a team of researchers from the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt as well as the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and the University of Heidelberg have succeeded in determining the mass of helium-4 nuclei, also known as alpha particles, with a precision of eleven digits. The results of the measurements are published in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Precision mass measurements with Penning traps will also play a…



The guests and the Management of GSI and FAIR at the linear accelerator UNILAC.
Members of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, as well as their coworkers and guests, visited GSI and FAIR. They were informed about current research topics, infrastructures and the future accelerator center FAIR, which is currently under construction at GSI. The guests were welcomed by Professor Paolo Giubellino, Scientific Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, Jörg Blaurock, Technical Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, Markus Jaeger, Deputy Administrative Managing Directorate GSI…



Group picture, f.l. GSI/FAIR Research Director Professor Karlheinz Langanke, Professor Nu Xu, Professor Taka Otsuka and Professor Volker Koch.
Three world-renown scientists, including two Humboldt Award winners, are currently spending long-term research stays at GSI and FAIR and its partner universities in Darmstadt and Frankfurt. They are analyzing and interpreting current experimental data and preparing the first scientific experiments at FAIR in fruitful interdisciplinary cooperation.



Award ceremony: IARR president Professor Yoshiya Shimada (left) and Professor Marco Durante.
Professor Marco Durante, head of GSI's Biophysics Research Department and professor at the Department of Physics at TU Darmstadt, has been awarded the prestigious Henry Kaplan Prize by the International Association of Radiation Research (IARR). The award is considered the top radiation research award. Professor Durante received the award at the International Congress of Radiation Research (ICRR) 2023 in Montreal, Canada, in August...




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