Summer Students

| Program 2024

Summer Students

Program 2024

Program 2024

Program 2024

The 2024 program will take place from 16 July - 5 September 2024.

News 16 February 2024: The Application Phase of the program has ended. All applicants will be notified by end of March on the outcome of the selection process.

Each summer DESY offers undergraduate students in physics or related disciplines (such as scientific computing and engineering) the opportunity to obtain first-hand research experience at a large international laboratory. Students are invited for a 8 week training period to experience research in one of the various fields pursued at DESY:

  • Photon science
  • Elementary particle physics & Accelerators
  • Astroparticle physics


Selected candidates join in the day-to-day work of research groups at the DESY Laboratory in Hamburg or Zeuthen (Berlin). Research projects can be categorised into different types of activities: practical work on detectors or experimental equipment, physics data analysis, software development, theory, and scientific computing. More details on the available activities can be found here. The students will gain first-hand experience in independent research,  working together with established scientists who are experts in their fields. While the research project is the main activity, there will also be a series of lectures (given in English) tailored towards the key topics of DESY research. Visits to the accelerators, experiments, and computer centre are also included in this program. Summer students are expected to work 39 hours per week (including project work and lectures). They will get a salary of about 1200 Euros/month, at least partial travel reimbursement and have the possibility to stay in the DESY Hostel (at reduced rates) during the full program period.
An announcement poster is available here.

If you have any questions please check first if you can find answers on our webpages. In case you cannot find the answers please write to summie-org@desy.de. Please be aware that during some periods it may not be possible to answer emails very promptly.