Activities

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.

DateTimeLocationTopic(s)/ActivitySpeaker(s)
01.07.202510:00WBGB/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
02.07.202514:00OSGA/EG6b (afterwards coffee in OASE cafeteria)Accelerator Facilities at PSIRasmus Ischebeck
09.07.202510:00OSGA/EG6b (9:30 coffee in OASE cafeteria)Nuclear Engineering and Sciences (PANDA visit afterwards)Terttaliisa Lind
16.07.202510:00WBGB/019SwissFELChristoph Bostedt
21.07.202513:00WBGB/019 (coffee after the lecture)Scientific Computing Theory and DataLaura Grigori
23.07.202510:00WBGB/019Particle Physics (tour afterwards)Klaus Kirch
23.07.202517:00OASEBarbecue 
30.07.202510:00WBGB/019Proton TherapyTony Lomax
06.08.202510:00WBGB/019Biomedicine and Life Sciences (tour afterwards)Tobias Weinert
11.08.202514:00OASE (SwissFEL)/WBGB (SLS)SLS and SwissFEL VisitRasmus Ischebeck
Jonas Kallestrup, Jörg Raabe
13.08.202510:00WBGB/019Lightning TalksSummer Students
20.08.202510:00WBGB/019Lightning TalksSummer Students
27.08.202510:00WBGB/019Life as a PhD Student at PSI (coffee afterwards)Chiara Berretta
PhD & Postdoc Association
20.09.2025all dayCERNCERN excursion (booked out)