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]
Infected by Passion for Science
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]
Working on High-End Detectors for the future FAIR Facility
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]
To prevent dormant Tumours from waking up
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]
Team-Work across 12 Countries
"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]
Modelling a Phantom for Cancer Treatment
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]