Hello everyone, Now the time has come … the last blog entry for the 40th overwintering team at Neumayer Station III. Since 19 January, our overwintering has officially been over. On that day, the icebreaker Polarstern dropped anchor at the ice edge in Atka Bay, raising the total population ...[Read more]

Today, February 11, 2021, is the "International Day of Women and Girls in Science", proclaimed by the United Nations. Last year, on the occasion of International Women's Day, we asked women at GSI and FAIR to give us an insight into their work: biophysicists, engineers, physicists. Here you can ...[Read more]

Are you curious about HeJu and Helmholtz Horizons? After our newest survey (report is here: https://www.helmholtz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/06_jobs_talente/Helmholtz-Juniors/Survey_Report2019_update.pdf  ), we realized our PhDs can relate themselves quite good to Helmholtz and thus we also ...[Read more]

The HIDA Trainee Network is back for a second time in 2021. The exchange program promotes interdisciplinary networking between young scientists at Helmholtz and helps them learn from one another How do other scientists do what they do? As every researcher knows, looking at the bigger picture ...[Read more]

Hello, everyone! First of all, a big thank-you goes to Ina for her great blog entry on “A day as a geophysicist at the Neumayer III station”. December is now nearly over, and we have news from the southern tip of the world for you … (though, given the holidays and vacation, our colleagues ...[Read more]

Hi!   Allow me to briefly introduce myself and tell you about my life in the Antarctic: My profile Name: Ina Wehner Position: Geophysicist Previous work and training: Geophysics degree followed by three years working in industry Home: Kiel, Germany Plans after returning home: ...[Read more]

- Dual study program of computer science at GSI and at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt - Top-level research at world class, like at GSI and FAIR, is not possible without powerful IT. With the Green IT Cube, GSI/FAIR has therefore built one of the most energy-efficient high-performance ...[Read more]

Anxiety? Depression? Feeling upset/worried/tense? Maybe you have experienced (one of) these during your PhD, but have you ever thought these are all warning signs for your mental health? Or in another words, why should we care and how? In our newest survey (report is here: https://www.helmholtz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/06_jobs_talente/Helmholtz-Juniors/Survey_Report2019_update.pdf  ...[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. ...[Read more]

What is power abuse in the academic system? Is it a something new, or why it is gaining more and more attention? In our newest survey (report is here: https://www.helmholtz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/06_jobs_talente/Helmholtz-Juniors/Survey_Report2019_update.pdf  ), we have (as always) put these ...[Read more]