Applications are Now Open for the DESY Summer Student Program 2025

Name of the Event: DESY Summer Student Program 2025

Date: 22 July - 11 September 2025

Place: DESY laboratory in Hamburg or Zeuthen

Working language: English

Last Date of Application: 31 January 2025

Link to Apply:

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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 an 8-week training period to experience research in one of the various fields pursued at DESY-

• Photon science

• Elementary particle physics & accelerators

• Astroparticle physics

Summer students are expected to work 39 hours per week (including project work and lectures). They will get DESY Hostel accommodation provided free of cost during the full program period. The students will receive adequate financial support to cover living expenses.

Qualifications:

• Applicants should have completed at least three years of full-time studies at the university level in physics, related natural science disciplines or computing by the summer of 2025. Please be aware that the large majority of projects we offer are for physics students!

• The main target audiences are students who are at the following two stages by summer 2025-

  - They are about to obtain their Bachelor's degree.

  - They hold a Bachelor's degree and are enrolled in a Master's program.

• Applicants who have already obtained a Master's degree or will have obtained it by summer 2025 cannot be accepted.

• Applicants should not have previously been at DESY as a summer student.

• Please take note that due to regulations for paid internships in Germany, we can only accept students who are enrolled at their university for the whole period of the Summer Student Programme. Unfortunately, we cannot make exceptions to this rule since this is a necessary criteria due to German employment law.

We are not the official organisers of the program. If you have any queries regarding it, kindly contact the organisers at - http://mailto:summie-org@desy.de/