Partners

ROCK-IT consists of four Helmholtz partner institutes DESY, HZB, HZDR, and KIT. All partner institutes contain employees in all of the work packages.

DESY

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY is one of the world’s leading accelerator centres. Researchers use the large-scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety – from the interactions of tiny elementary particles and the behaviour of new types of nanomaterials to biomolecular processes that are essential to life. The accelerators and detectors that DESY develops and builds are unique research tools. The facilities generate the world’s most intense X-ray light, accelerate particles to record energies and open completely new windows onto the universe.

HZB

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) discovers new materials and develops technologies for a climate-neutral energy supply of the future. HZB’s X-ray source BESSY II attracts many researchers from around the world to investigate the structure of materials such as quantum materials, proteins, or cultural goods. Receiving an average of 2700 visits from visiting researchers from 28 countries every year, makes Germany’s only soft X-ray source an indispensable hub for the international research community.

HZDR

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is a modern large-scale research center, conducting cutting-edge research with a long-term focus in the fields of energy, health and matter. HZDR researchers deliver solutions to the great challenges of our time, and see it as a task to provide knowledge and technology for the next generations. For the informative ROCK-IT page at the HZDR, click here.

KIT

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the research university in the Helmholtz Association. From fundamental research to applications, KIT excels in a broad range of disciplines, making significant contributions to the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. Being a large-scale science institution, KIT takes part in international competition and holds a leading position in Europe.