Welcome and thank you for visiting the website of the biophysics department at the GSI in Darmstadt. The biophysics department is an interdisciplinary collaboration of biologists, physicists, chemists, biochemists and technicians.
The multidisciplinary research in our group covers many different topics which can be roughly summarized in the categories radiobiology, physics, space research and therapy.
The biophysics research at GSI is a part of a large international network of more than 40 groups from universities and other research Institutes.
10.11.2025 | Giersch - Prize 2025 der HGSHire Graduate School
Ms. Amèlia Jansen van Vuuren, Mr. Malte Benje, Mr. Luca Lunati, and Mr. Peter Dick have been awarded the “Giersch Prize 2025 of the HGSHire Graduate School” for their outstanding scientific work in recent years. The award ceremony took on 10 November 2025 at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS).
09.11.2025 | The Nov/Dec 2025 issue of the CERN courier
The Nov/Dec 2025 issue of the CERN Courier is largely dedicated to particle therapy and includes reports on our research at GSI. It includes interviews to Marco Durante and Francesca Luoni. Read the issue here:
The Association awards the 27th Christoph Schmelzer Prize for outstanding work in the field of ion beam therapy
to Dr. Cristina Totis (Dissertation at Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2025)
to Dr. Stefanie Bertschi (Dissertation at Technische Universität Dresden, 2025)
The award ceremony will take place on November 20th, 2025 at 4 p.m. at GSI in the main lecture hall (Hörsaal SB1).Program (only in German)
(Announcmen from the Association for the Promotion of Tumor Therapy with Heavy Ions e.V.)
It is the birthplace of a new form of cancer treatment. This development was the result of many years of research in conjunction with GSI’s large ion-beam accelerator system. The advantage of this new treatment modality is that the ion beam selectively damages tumor tissues while sparing the surrounding healthy tissues.
