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.

30/07/2026

👍High (motivational) energy at the low energy frontier!
The Max Planck Institute for Physics is delighted to host around 100 participants of the Summer School 2026 for two weeks. The school is part of the International School on AstroParticle Physics (ISAPP) network, which brings together leading European institutions to provide advanced doctoral training in astroparticle physics.

students and early-career researchers are exploring the low energy frontier, with a focus on dark matter and neutrinos from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. They get hands-on experience cooling down a cryostat, discover the magic of liquid gases, search for the „cleanest“ particle ever - the , dive into deep generative models, and even play football together.

A big thank you to all the organizers for making this inspiring summer school possible: Federica Petricca, Raimund Strauss, Valentina Mantovani-Sarti, Georg Raffelt, Béla Majorovits, Babette Döbrich, Karoline Schäffner, Alejandro Ibarra

Neutrinos SummerSchool

16/07/2026

Wir laden Euch herzlich zur nächsten Café & Kosmos-Veranstaltung am 21. Juli in München ein.

Lucy Komisel, Doktorandin am MPP und an der .lmu, nimmt Euch mit in die faszinierende Welt des Axions – eines bislang noch nicht experimentell nachgewiesenen Teilchens, das als möglicher Beschützer bestimmter Symmetrien gilt.

An diesem Abend erfahrt Ihr, warum Symmetrien als Spiegel der Teilchenphysik gelten und wie sie dabei helfen, das Verhalten von Elementarteilchen zu verstehen. Doch wie echte Spiegel können auch Symmetrien brechen. Hinter diesen Brüchen könnte sich eine bislang unbekannte Physik verbergen – etwas, was die Forschenden zu neuen Erklärungen inspiriert. Lucy Komisel zeigt, wie theoretische Teilchenphysiker:nnen Symmetriebrüche untersuchen und welche Lösungen sie dafür entwickeln, um die Welt hinter dem Spiegel besser zu begreifen.

📅 21. Juli 2026
🕖 Beginn: 19:00 Uhr (Einlass ab 18:00 Uhr)
📍 Wirtshaus zum Isartal, München
🎟️ Der Eintritt ist frei.

14/07/2026

Giacomo Giannetti (MPP) and Frank Asiamah (Rhodes University, South Africa) are teaming up in ARTEMIS, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft’s African Mentorship Program. They fist met at the “International Microwave and Antenna Symposium” in Nairobi, Kenia.
Frank is a PhD student and will work with the group on radio astronomy and microwave engineering.
Besides Giacomo, also Sven Menke from the calorimetry will be mentoring a PhD student from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa).
The mentorship program officially begins in September 2026, and the young researchers will spend a four-week research stay at the MPP next year. We look forward to welcoming them and wish all participants an inspiring and successful collaboration!
Photo: Giacomo Giannetti and Frank Asiamah at the “International Microwave and Antenna Symposium” (IMAS) in Nairobi, Kenia

ParticlePhysics

29/06/2026

Why did the early universe produce more matter than antimatter, leaving the matter that makes up everything we see today?

Scientists in the Belle II experiment tackle this puzzle by studying decays of b-mesons (pairs of a b-anti-quark and a d- or u- quark) decays. Now they can make use of the world’s largest dataset. B mesons are helpful as they are produced together with their antiparticles when electrons and positrons collide.

The MPP group contributed to this unique dataset by designing and building the innermost detector in Belle II that records these collision events.

Photo: Botho Paschen/Universität Bonn

SuperKEKB

25/06/2026

Happy birthday! Today and tomorrow international experts meet for the symposium „Particle Physics & Cosmology from strings” at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. They discuss developments of string theory related to particle physics and cosmology. But in particular they come together to celebrate Ralph Blumenhagen’s 60th birthday, his scientific life and the excellent contributions he made in these fields.

The event was organized by MPP director Dieter Lüst and follows a longstanding tradition: to honor physicists with a symposium when they turn 60.

The picture shows Ralph Blumenhagen (front row, center left) next to Dieter Lüst and some of the symposium’s participants.

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. 🌍💫

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