DESY
German national research center
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| April 1 2025 | Beate Heinemann becomes the new Chairperson of the DESY Directorate, succeeding Helmut Dosch. |
| 2020 | Began the FLASH2020+ project to further optimize radiation properties at the FLASH facility. |
| 2020 | DESY had an annual budget of approximately 232 million euros, with an additional third-party funding income of about 18 million euros. The budget was primarily funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (90%), with the remaining 10% coming from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the German federal state of Brandenburg. |
| 2016 | Completed development of the European X-ray free-electron laser (European XFEL) as part of an international consortium led by DESY. |
| January 2013 | DORIS was shut down, and the HASYLAB name was abandoned in favor of DESY's Photon Science division. |
| 2010 | DESY began developing plasma-based accelerator technology as a potential alternative to conventional accelerator technologies. |
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