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Karoline Schäffner honored in the Lise Meitner Excellence Program

Karoline Schäffner has been awarded one of the coveted Lise Meitner positions at the Max Planck Society. The Lise Meitner Excellence Program now opens up long-term prospects for Karoline Schäffner and her field of research at the MPI for Physics. The…

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Signing the contract for the new Max Planck Center (from left): Yu-tin Huang (NTU, deputy co-Director), Daniel Baumann (NTU, co-director), Wen-Chang Chen (President of NTU), Claudia Felser (Vice President of MPG), Johannes Henn (MPP, co-director), and Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS, deputy co-Director); Photo: Tsu-Ying Chiang

New Max Planck Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Geometry inaugurated

On 1 September 2025, the Max Planck Society, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA), and National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) officially opened the Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Geometry in Taipei.…

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Collisions in the ATLAS experiment can produce two jets. This type of event formed the basis for the current study. (Image: ATLAS/CERN)

Theory of strong interaction: Current studies confirm previous predictions

The strong interaction is one of the four fundamental forces in the universe. Around 50 years after it was first described, its theoretical foundations have now been tested with unprecedented accuracy in two recent studies. Scientists from the Max…

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Prof. Dr. Giulia Zanderighi (Photo: A. Griesch/MPP)

Giulia Zanderighi becomes new Managing Director

Just after the ceremonial opening of the new building, the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) has announced an important change in its leadership: theoretical physicist Giulia Zanderighi has been elected as the new Managing Director: a first, as…

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Ceremonial handover of the key (Photo: Axel Griesch/MPP)

Ceremonial inauguration of the new MPP building - an important step towards an innovative future

In the presence of guests of honor Dr. Markus Söder, Minister President of Bavaria, Markus Blume, Minister of State for Science and the Arts, and Prof. Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society, the inauguration of the new institute…

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