Moritz Kriegel defended his dissertation entitled “What do physicists do? Conception and evaluation of out of school learning environments to promote realistic ideas about physicists‘ vocational activities” successfully. Congratulations.

Alexander Tichai (A04) and Zewei Xiong (B01, B06), both members of the SFB, receive prestigious ERC starting grants.

The neutron-rich unbound fluorine isotope 30F has been observed for the first time in an experiment at the SAMURAI spectrometer at the RIBF in RIKEN, Japan. The measured neutron separation energy shows no sharp decrease after N=20 providing the most direct confirmation that the N=20 shell gap is not restored in this region of the chart of nuclides close to 28O.

Laura Renth defended her dissertation entitled „Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of Magic Lead and Mid-Shell Palladium Isotopes“ successfully. Congratulations.

Oliver Papst (B02) defended his dissertation entitled “Exploration of Nuclear-Structure Effects on Averaged Decay Quantities in the Quasicontinuum” successfully. Congratulations.

Francesca Bonaiti defended her dissertation entitled “Constraining the nuclear matter equation of state from electromagnetic observables in finite nuclei” successfully. Congratulations.

Live-Palm Kubushishi (A05) defended his dissertation entitled „Exploring core excitation in halo nuclei using halo effective field theory“ successfully. Congratulations.

Calculations of nuclear magnetic moments that take into account two-body currents are in better agreement with measured moments than ever before. The results published in Physical Review Letters range from relatively light nuclei such as oxygen to heavy elements such as bismuth.

Matthias Heinz (A04) won the 1st prize for his theory posters at the 2024 Conference “Direct Reactions with Exotic Beams” (DREB2024) with title “Improved ab initio description of neutron-rich calcium isotopes.”