Career at DESY

Welcome to DESY! More than 2900 DESY employees work in various professional fields and offer you an international and interdisciplinary working environment. Natural sciences, IT, economics and engineering, administration and technology are just some of these professional fields. The DESY research centre offers a variety of challenging scientific and non-scientific positions with diverse career opportunities – as well as a broad further training programme. Become part of our research world!

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PETRA IV: A discovery machine for uncharted scientific territory

Thanks to PETRA IV's ultrabright X-ray light, researchers will be able to investigate natural phenomena and technical processes in new dimensions.

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