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 lecture programme
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) | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.07.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 (coffee break at 10:45) | Welcome to the programme Welcome from the PhD and postdoc association Welcome from the sports club Introduction to PSI | Clemens Lange Natan Garrivier Katja Schibler Christian Rüegg |
| 02.07.2025 | 14:00 | OSGA/EG6b (coffee in OASE cafeteria) | Accelerator Facilities at PSI | Rasmus Ischebeck |
| 09.07.2025 | 10:00 | OSGA/EG6b (coffee in OASE cafeteria) | Nuclear Engineering and Sciences | 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 | Klaus Kirch |
| 30.07.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Proton Therapy | Tony Lomax |
| 06.08.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Biomedicine and Life Sciences | Tobias Weinert |
2025 social activities and lightning talks
| Date | Time | Location | Activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23.07.2025 | 17:00 | Outside OASE | Barbecue |
| 13.08.2025 | 10:00 | WBGB/019 | Lightning talks by summer students (tentative) |
| 20.08.2024 | 10:00 | WHGA/001 | Lightning talks by summer students (tentative) |