New partners: Dashh and HAW Hamburg

The DASHH Helmholtz Graduate School for the Structure of Matter is not only proud to receive the North German Science Award 2020, but also a new cooperation partner: the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg)

At DASHH, doctoral students are trained to work in both applied and basic research on the topics of particle physics, structure of matter, materials science, structural biology, computer science and applied mathematics. Therefore, the partners of the graduate school are just as numerous as the research perspectives at DASHH: In addition to large research institutions, first and foremost DESY, the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter and the European XFel, Hamburg universities are also partners in the doctoral training at DASHH: the University of Hamburg, the Technical University and the Helmut Schmidt University. This circle is now expanding, as four computer science professors from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences have now also been appointed to DASHH.

The computer scientists from HAW Hamburg teach and conduct research in the following areas of focus: Prof. Marina Tropmann-Frick  is a data analyst with a focus on modeling, engineering and mining; her colleague Prof. Peer Stelldinger develops algorithms for machine learning. Prof. Jan Sudeikat  researches practical problems in the development of adaptive (control) systems, while Prof. Thomas C. Schmidt  is an expert in distributed sensing and data preprocessing in the Internet of Things. At the DASHH Graduate School, the HAW Hamburg researchers plan to conduct interdisciplinary PhD projects in data science, completing the team of nearly 70 Principal Investigators at DASHH.