Summer Students
Program 2025
Program 2025
Program 2025
The 2025 program will take place from 22 July - 11 September 2025.
News 17 October 2024: we are preparing the 2025 edition of the program.
- More information will be made available here during the first two weeks in November, stay tuned for updates, at the moment the webpages are mostly still showing information for the 2024 program.
- The online application will open from end of November until 31 January 2025
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 850 Euros/month, at least partial travel reimbursement and DESY Hostel accommodation provided free-of-cost 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.