As a summer student, you will be embedded in a research group for the duration of at least seven and up to twelve weeks. You will actively participate in and contribute to the research at PSI, pursuing a research project together with one or more supervisor(s).
A lecture and activities programme is centrally organised for all summer students. It consists of introductory lectures of the main areas of research at PSI, typically followed by a tour of the experiments and laboratories.
For exchange with other summer students, a social programme consisting of a welcome event at the beginning of the lecture programme, a barbeque, and several get-togethers will take place.
2025 programme
Please mind that this is the 2025 programme, which is supposed to give an idea of the overall programme activities. The 2026 programme will be added in 2026.
Lectures will typically have a length of 45 minutes. Some of them will be followed by a visit of the laboratories. Coffee and Gipfeli will be served 30 minutes before the lectures unless indicated differently below. Most of the lectures take place on Wednesdays at 10:00. The kick-off/welcome event will take place on Tuesday, 1st July 2025.
| Date | Time | Location | Topic(s)/Activity | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.07.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 (coffee break at 10:45) | Welcome to the programme Welcome from the sports club Welcome from the PhD and postdoc association Introduction to PSI | Clemens Lange Katja Schibler Nicola Rizzi/Jolan Tissier Christian Rüegg |
| 02.07.2025 | 14:00 | OSGA/EG6b (afterwards coffee in OASE cafeteria) | Accelerator Facilities at PSI | Rasmus Ischebeck |
| 09.07.2025 | 10:00 | OSGA/EG6b (9:30 coffee in OASE cafeteria) | Nuclear Engineering and Sciences (PANDA visit afterwards) | Terttaliisa Lind |
| 16.07.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | SwissFEL | Christoph Bostedt |
| 21.07.2025 | 13:00 | WBGB/019 (coffee after the lecture) | Scientific Computing Theory and Data | Laura Grigori |
| 23.07.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Particle Physics (tour afterwards) | Klaus Kirch |
| 23.07.2025 | 17:00 | OASE | Barbecue | |
| 30.07.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Proton Therapy | Tony Lomax |
| 06.08.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Biomedicine and Life Sciences (tour afterwards) | Tobias Weinert |
| 11.08.2025 | 14:00 | OASE (SwissFEL)/WBGB (SLS) | SLS and SwissFEL Visit | Rasmus Ischebeck Jonas Kallestrup, Jörg Raabe |
| 13.08.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Lightning Talks | Summer Students |
| 20.08.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Lightning Talks | Summer Students |
| 27.08.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Life as a PhD Student at PSI (coffee afterwards) | Chiara Berretta PhD & Postdoc Association |
| 20.09.2025 | all day | CERN | CERN excursion (booked out) |