Ties Behnke

Director in charge of Particle Physics (interim)

Ties Behnke already worked as a postdoc at DESY, but also did research at CERN and SLAC. In 1998, he became a lead scientist at DESY.

Ties Behnke is, among other things, coordinator of the Helmholtz Alliance “Physics at the Terascale” and spokesperson of the Helmholtz research program “Matter and Technology”.

He was Acting Director of Particle Physics from January 2021 to February 2022 and will take on this role again from April 2025.