For Ilkka Pohjalainen it was only logical to come from Finland to GSI for a whole year– he had already been working with the FAIR project during his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Jyväskylä. “It is quite nice to have the opportunity to come to one of the top facilities for heavy ion research in ...[Read more]
It’s not only the pandemic that makes a zoom conference with Mehul Shiroya the most suitable way to meet him: He is working from home writing down his Master thesis. The camera remains switched off today – the reason might be the usual piles of paper, empty tea cups and half-eaten pizzas that are so ...[Read more]
When Hanna Zbroszczyk came to Darmstadt in the summer of 2019, she brought with her 7 students from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) for a 3-month internship with GET_INvolved with FAIR. One year later and despite pandemic obstacles, she arrived with a second group of enthusiastic students. Her ...[Read more]
The story of Akashrup Banerjee’s research stay at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, actually starts with a long car trip away from Darmstadt. Together with a colleague he drove to Calais, took the ferry to Dover and went up to the University of Surrey near London, a 12-hours trip. The reason: They had to ...[Read more]
It’s tumour research that drove Charnay Cunningham from iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Science (iThemba LABS) in South Africa to GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, for a sandwich Ph.D. „I felt that it would be of advantage to expand my radiobiology knowledge and to gain practical experiences“ Charnay ...[Read more]
"I learned a lot”, summarizes Wenxiong Zhou his 2-year-postdoc stay at GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, “especially how to construct a big complex system” - within a team of people spread over 12 countries. Several hundreds of researchers The system Wenxiong has been working on is the target ...[Read more]
When you enter a small, inconspicuous container on the premises of the GSI/FAIR particle acclerator facility close to the big experimental halls you find yourself in the cleanest and most sterile environment of a biology lab: It is the biophysics area, close to the place where the first cancer ...[Read more]
