Skip to main content
  • Paul Scherrer Institut PSI
  • PSI Research, Labs & User Services

Digital User Office

  • Digital User Office
  • DE
  • EN
  • FR
Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)
Suche
Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)

Hauptnavigation

  • Our ResearchOpen mainmenu item
    • Current topics from our research
    • Matter and Material
    • Human Health
    • Energy and Environment
    • Large Research Facilities
    • Research on Covid-19
    • Brochures
    • 5232 — The magazine of the Paul Scherrer Institute
    • Research Divisions & Labs (only english)
  • IndustryOpen mainmenu item
    • Overview
    • Technology Transfer
    • Expertise
    • Spin-off Companies
    • Park Innovaare
  • Proton TherapyOpen mainmenu item
    • Overview
    • Physician & Patient Information
  • CareerOpen mainmenu item
    • Overview
    • Job Opportunities
    • Working at PSI
    • Personnel Policy
    • Equal Opportunities, Diversity & Inclusion
    • Training and Further Education
    • Vocational Training
    • PSI Education Centre
    • Career Center
    • Support Program "PSI Career Return Program"
    • PSI-FELLOW/COFUND
  • Visit to PSIOpen mainmenu item
    • Overview
    • Visitor Centre psi forum
    • Schülerlabor iLab
    • Public Events
    • How to find us
  • About PSIOpen mainmenu item
    • PSI in brief
    • Strategy
    • Guiding principles
    • Facts and figures
    • Organisational structure
    • For the media
    • Suppliers and customers
    • Customers E-Billing
  • DE
  • EN
  • FR

Digital User Office (mobile)

  • Digital User Office

You are here:

  1. PSI Home
  2. Our Research
  3. Current topics from our research
  4. Topic Overview

Secondary navigation

Our Research

  • Current topics from our research Expanded submenu item
    • Matter and Material
    • Human Health
    • Energy and Environment
    • ESI Platform
    • Large research facilities
    • Project SLS 2.0
    • Topic Overview
    • Archive
  • 5232 – The magazine of the Paul Scherrer Institute
    • Contact
  • Brochures
  • Films
    • Virtual Tour
  • Social Media
    • PSI Community Guidelines
  • Media corner
    • Media Releases

Topic Overview

Research at the Paul Scherrer Institute

The scientific topics investigated at the Paul Scherrer Institute can be divided into three large fields: Matter and Material, Human Health, and Energy and Environment. The scientific results are achieved by both researchersr from the PSI and external scientists performing experiments at PSI's large research facilities. Besides research in the strict meaning of the word, further development of the experimental facilities is an important task for PSI's scientists and engineers.

Matter and Material

Most researchers working in the field Matter and Material are investigating the properties of various materials by determining how the atoms they are composed of are arranged and how they move. PSI's particle physicists go one step further and investigate the properties of the smallest building blocks of matter – the elementary particles.

Human Health

Understanding the vital processes in living organisms on a molecular level and developing new methods for the diagnosis and treatment of disease are the basic aims of research in Human Health.
Cancer patients have been treated since 1984 at the PSI proton therapy facilities on the Institute's site. The procedure offers a treatment method for certain types of tumours which is particularly less destructive of neighbouring tissue. PSI researchers are constantly developing and extending the facilities, in order to make the therapy increasingly more efficient and also applicable to other types of tumours.

Energy and Environment

The goal of PSI's energy research is the development of technologies for a sustainable utilization of energy. This includes environmentally friendly energy production, the application of renewable energy sources, and low-loss energy storage. In addition, technologies are being investigated which will contribute to the safe use of nuclear energy. Environmental research is concentrated on the study of processes taking place in the atmosphere.

Topic Overview (in alphabetical order)

Biology
CHRISP
Energy and Environment
Environment
ESI Platform
Human Health
Industrial co-operation
Large Research Facilities
Materials Research
Matter and Material
Medical Science
Micro- and Nanotechnology
Miscellaneous
Nuclear Power Plant Safety

Particle Physics
Proton Therapy
Quantum Research
Radiopharmacy
Renewable Energies
Research on Covid-19
Research using Muons
Research using Neutrons
Research using Synchrotron Light
SLS2.0
Storage
SwissFEL
User Experiments

Sidebar

5232_2-22_e.jpg

5232 — The magazine of the Paul Scherrer Institute

02/2022
View in issuu.com
Download
Subscribe to our magazine

Visitor Centre psi forum

Experience research live


The iLab School Laboratory

Experience Science - Explore Research

top

Footer

Paul Scherrer Institut

Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland

Telephone: +41 56 310 21 11
Telefax: +41 56 310 21 99

How to find us
Contact

Visitor Centre psi forum
School Lab iLab (in German)
Center for Proton Therapy
PSI Education Centre
PSI Guest House
PSI Gastronomie (in German)
psi forum shop

Service & Support

  • Phone Book
  • User Office
  • Accelerator Status
  • PSI Publications
  • Suppliers
  • E-Billing
  • Computing
  • Safety (in German)

Career

  • Working at PSI
  • Job Opportunities
  • Training and further education
  • Vocational Training (in German)
  • PSI Education Center

For the media

  • PSI in brief
  • Facts and Figures
  • Media corner
  • Media Releases
  • Social Media

Follow us: Twitter (in English) LinkedIn Youtube Facebook Instagram Issuu RSS

Footer legal

  • Imprint
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Editors' login