Podcasts

In March 2024, we restarted the Science Communication offers at PEP with the workshop ‘Tell Me About It: Explaining Science Through Podcasts and Coversations’ with trainer and host Michael Büker. The first episode of this podcast series is now live:

  • Evan and the Particle Physicists
    The Large Hadron Collider is the highest energy particle collider ever built, smashing protons together at record energies. But how would a physicist looking at data from these collisions make a breakthrough discovery, like a...
  • Bonus Episode: Vida de Doctorado en el Extranjero
    For our Spanish speakers, here’s a bonus episode with PhD student Ana and our host Michael in Spanish where they talk about the differences encountered when moving from Barcelona to Germany to do a PhD....
  • Ana Ventura Barroso talks about her journey studying physics
    Episode 3 of our new season of Science Chatter Hamburg podcast dives into the academic journey of Ana, a PhD student in particle physics at DESY. She talks about how she started loving physics by...
  • Merle Graf-Schreiber explains how the universe is lazy
    Episode 2 of our new season of Science Chatter Hamburg podcast dives into the Principle of Minimal Action with Merle Graf-Schrieber, where she explains to us why it fascinated her during her Physics studies. Merle...
  • Chirality with Dr. Denis Tikhonov
    In our first podcast episode of this new season, Dr. Denis Tikhonov talks about a special property in nature called chirality, and the research done by him and his colleagues to probe this phenomenon. Denis...

In September 2021, we offered a workshop on Podcasting to doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in which each participant recorded their very own Podcast episode with the help of physics podcaster Michael Büker. We were blown away by the results. Tune in:

  • Podcast Episode 7: Oindrila and Philine – STEMme #2
    Our seventh and final podcast for this season is also the second episode of the STEMme podcast. This time, Philine and Oindrila are interviewing, well, me, Theresa, about my PhD in genetics, my career switch...
  • Podcast Episode 6: Oindrila and Philine – STEMme #1
    In our sixth episode, we have Oindrila Ghosh and Philine van Vliet, two doctoral researchers in Theoretical High-Energy Physics, present the very first episode of the STEMme podcast, where they discuss the recent debate between...
  • Podcast Episode 5: Pranjal Trivedi
    In our fifth episode, Pranjal Trivedi, astrophysicist and cosmologist as a postdoctoral researcher at the Hamburg Observatory and the Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence, talks about dark matter and the ongoing quest of finding it.
  • Podcast Episode 4: Caroline Heneka
    In our fourth podcast episode, Caroline Heneka, astrophysicist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg and the Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence, talks about new telescopes and how to look for the first ever...
  • Podcast Episode 3: Elaf Musa
    Listen to Elaf Musa, Experimental Physicist at DESY and PhD student at University of Hamburg, talking about proton therapy as a cancer treatment.
  • Podcast Episode 2: Hope Bretscher
    In our second podcast episode, Hope Bretscher, Postdoc at the MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, reflects on objectivity in science.
  • Podcast Episode 1: Niels Giesselmann
    In our first podcast episode, Niels Giesselmann talks about nanoconfined water and the struggles he faced when he started his PhD thesis at DESY right at the peak of a pandemic lockdown.
  • Listen! Our Podcast Trailer is here
    It’s September and we are very excited to venture new grounds with Science Chatter Hamburg: We go Podcast! Listen to our trailer and stay tuned for several episodes full of nerdy science talk from our...