Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

Name: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
Address: Föhringer Ring 6, Munich, 80333, DE
Telephone: +498932354215

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Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

Wir erforschen die kleinsten Materie-Bausteine um die großen Geheimnisse des Universums zu verstehen.

28/05/2026

FPGA developers meet at

Young researcher, big impact: Our MPP early-career scientist Davide Cieri launched the “FPGA Developers’ Forum” in 2024 — and the third edition started yesterday. Interest is booming: participation has tripled to 400 since the launch.

Why it matters: FPGAs are key technology for research, AI, and medicine. The forum connects experts across academia and industry to share solutions — so developers don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

But there is more than just an annual conference: The organizers offer bimonthly online seminars, a user forum, a developer toolkit, and a newsletter at fpga.web.cern.ch.

28/04/2026

✴️ Follow your own path: thirty girls visited the MPP for Girls’ Day 2026

Our director, Giulia Zanderighi, welcomed them before they joined our scientists and technicians for a range of hands-on workshops. The girls built their own dark matter detector, worked with copper and circuit boards, and detected a single light particle — made visible to the human eye.

🔭 These first steps at the MPP might inspire them and shape a new generation for the future of physics.

👏 A huge thank you to our colleagues for making this day possible and sharing their passion with the girls!

WomenInPhysics

23/04/2026

Full House: The Career Day 2026 at the MPP saw an impressive number of participants: Close to 200 young scientists gathered for this year’s event to discuss their career options in and outside academia. We were also very happy to welcome some of our alumni, who are now pursuing successful careers in both research and industry.  One of the highlights was the keynote talk by Prof. Johannes Zeiher from the MPQ - “Quantum computers: About hype, hope, and reality”, covering both the fundaments of and the prospects for quantum computing.   During their education, physicists acquire competences that are of high interest for companies in multiple fields: Solving of abstract and complex problems, programming skills, big data analyses, AI experience, among others.   This networking event was organized by PhD students from the and for PhD students and postdocs from all MPIs on the Garching Campus.   The Career Day 2026 was made possible by generous third-party funding: A big and special thank you goes to our main sponsors .consulting and ! We would also like to extend our gratitude to Jane Street, Mathys & Squire LLP, TNG Technology Consulting, QuiX Quantum, , Menlo Systems, and Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH for their financial support.   🏅 Congratulations to all organizers for their great teamwork: MPP: Leonardo Bersigotti, Eleonora Cipelli, Dimitri Corradini, Elia Schmidt, Jonathan Schubert MPQ: Suchita Agrawal, Maya Bük, Florian Egli, Lea Gigou, Jordi Arnau Montana-Lopez, Yale Yauk 
AcademicNetworking Photos: Barbara Wankerl

08/04/2026

👉Jonathan Schubert shows the key formula behind this work on the whiteboard in the picture. The PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Physics presented the first analyses at the conference de Moriond 2026 as part of the experiment at .

📊The results belong to the first wave of analyses, a second round is already underway, with further results expected by the end of this year.

Why are heavy neutrinos important?

❗️Heavy neutrinos could extend the Standard Model of particle physics and help explain some of its biggest open questions. Remarkably, they could simultaneously account for the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe and the origin of neutrino masses and, under certain assumptions, may even be connected to dark matter – by introducing just one additional set of particles.

These new analyses from the current NA62 dataset are the first to probe the relevant parameter space in nearly 30 years.

23/03/2026

Diesen März war es wieder soweit: Die Belle II International Masterclass hat am MPP stattgefunden🌟
Rund 70 Schülerinnen und Schüler kamen zusammen, um einen Einblick in die faszinierende Welt der Teilchenphysik zu bekommen.
Wir wollten wissen: Was hat euch an der Masterclass am besten gefallen?
👉 Swipe nach links für die Antworten!
Was wir sie übrigens auch gefragt haben: Was interessiert euch an der Physik am meisten? Und ihre Antworten ähnelten sich: Mit der Physik wollen sie die Welt verstehen.
Und dafür seid ihr hier am MPP genau richtig. 🌍💫

WissenschaftFürAlle

07/03/2026

This International Women’s Day, we spotlight some of the women from our institute.

They are doing exciting science—and they have been where many women might find themselves today.

Our question to them: “What’s your take-home message for young women who would like to pursue a career in science?”

Check out their answers—they have inspiring things to share 👍.

02/03/2026

📍 The 18th Terascale Detector Workshop took place at the MPP - Feb 23–27th!
More than 60 researchers from different universities and institutes came together to discuss future challenges in particle detector technology.
On Monday, the event started with „The Detector School on Gaseous Ionization Detectors“. Under the guidance of Giorgia Proto, who leads the MPP’s RPC program, PhD Students built their own RPC chambers in hands-on sessions. In ATLAS, Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) have a very specific and crucial role in the muon spectrometer, mainly tied to fast triggering on muons thanks to their excellent timing perfomance.
For Tom Troska, one of the participants and PhD Student at , building such chambers by themselves was a unique experience.
💡 “The combination of practical detector construction and interesting technical presentations makes the workshop a valuable oppurtunity to learn new things and exchange ideas with other scientists.“

25/02/2026

🧳✨Beim gestrigen Café & Kosmos-Abend nahm Sebastian Zell das Publikum mit auf eine Reise von rund 13,8 Milliarden Jahren – in die Geschichte unseres Universums. Gemeinsam näherten wir uns dem Ursprung von allem: jenem Moment, in dem sich das Universum in unvorstellbarer Geschwindigkeit auszudehnen begann – ein Ereignis, das den Urknall auslöste, so die Vermutung der Wissenschaft.
💫Es ging um Raum und Krümmung, um Temperatur und Zeitintervalle, um das Einmaleins der Physik, angewandt auf den gesamten Kosmos – und das Publikum war mittendrin. Fast eine Stunde lang beantwortete Sebastian Zell Fragen, veranschaulichte komplexe Zusammenhänge – und griff dafür sogar zum Luftballon. Denn genau darin liegt der Kern unserer Forschung: Wer das Kleinste versteht, kann auch das Größte begreifen.
Danke schön an das zahlreich erschienene Publikum sowie dem in München als unser neuer Veranstaltungsort. Foto: Stefan Waldemaier

23/02/2026

As sweet as science can be 🍬🔬
The CRESST experiment group led by Petricca at the MPP has taken an unconventional path in the search for dark matter - one of the most mysterious components of our universe.
Their focus is on very light dark matter particles, which require highly specialized detectors. “We are always looking for new suitable detector materials,” says Federica Petricca. The detection principle is similar to a game of billiards: when a dark matter particle collides with an atomic nucleus in the detector, it rebounds. This interaction can be measured as a tiny increase in temperature and a faint flash of light.
“A very light dark matter particle cannot significantly disturb a heavy atomic nucleus - just as a marble cannot move a bowling ball when it collides with it,” Petricca explains.
This is where their research took an unexpectedly sweet turn. Inspired by the components of ordinary sugar, the scientists tested sucrose as a detector material - and were surprised by the outcome. “For the first time, we have shown that sugar is fundamentally suitable as a material for detecting dark matter.”
Before anyone rushes to the supermarket, there’s an important caveat: “Only after many more tests and comparisons with other materials will it become clear whether a sucrose detector can actually be realized.” For now, sugar still has to prove itself. Photo: Beatrice Mauri

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