As of 1 June, Matthias Hamer has started his position as excellence cluster professor in detector physics. We warmly welcome him to the group and look forward to working with him.

Katharina Voß has successfully defended her PhD thesis and graduated with the distinction summa cum laude. We congratulate her on this outstanding achievement and wish her all the best for the next stage of her career.

As the first doctoral student to join Prof. Markus Cristinziani's group in Siegen, Gabriel Gomes has successfully defended his PhD thesis. We congratulate him on this important milestone and wish him all the best for the next stage of his career.

Elisabeth Schopf has been awarded the Research Prize of the School of Science and Technology. The prize will be formally presented during the annual celebration of the School of Science and Technology on 19 June: https://www.uni-siegen.de/en/2026/annual-celebration-of-the-school-of-science-and-technology. We congratulate Elisabeth on this recognition.

We are pleased to announce that group members Nils Krengel and Carolina Costa have been awarded House of Young Talents PhD scholarships. They will begin their scholarships on 1 April 2026. We congratulate Nils and Carolina on this achievement and look forward to following their future research.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Markus Cristinziani has been elected as the next ATLAS Germany Deputy Spokesperson. He will begin his term on 1 January 2026. We congratulate Markus on his election and wish him a successful term as Deputy Spokesperson.

The particle physics groups at the University of Siegen are celebrating a historic success: the joint Excellence Cluster Color meets Flavor has been selected for funding within Germany’s Excellence Strategy. Together with partners from the University of Bonn, TU Dortmund University, and Forschungszentrum Jülich, the groups will receive significant funding ...

The prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to the four major experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider: ATLAS, ALICE, CMS, and LHCb. Often referred to as the “Oscars of Science”, the $3 million award honors groundbreaking achievements in particle physics. It was awarded for “detailed measurements of ...

On Wednesday and Thursday, the HEP group hosted the first TrackOpt workshop at the Untere Schloss in Siegen, bringing together researchers to discuss tracking challenges in particle physics, microfluidics, and microscopy. The event included an introduction to the working principles of the ATLAS detector and lab tours at the Emmy ...

Physicists from the University of Siegen are actively working on upgrading the ATLAS detector for the High Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider, scheduled to begin in 2030. Recently, a delegation from Siegen, including the university's rector and prorector for research, infrastructure, and networking, visited CERN and got to ...