What is dark matter? How does space get to accelerate particles a hundredfold compare to mankind's biggest labs? Particle and astrophysicists at Ruhr university Bochum and TU Dortmund tackle these and more fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. The new podcast episode "Think.Try.Transform" features Prof. Prof. Julia Tjus and Prof. Johannes Albrecht, giving insights into their research (in German).

Listen to podcast "Think.Try.Transform"

Cutting-edge research “made in NRW”: The “Color meets Flavor” Cluster of Excellence was officially launched in Bonn. Teams from the universities of Bonn, Siegen, and Dortmund, along with the Jülich Research Center, are jointly investigating the strong and weak interactions of quarks and the origins of the universe.

Applications opened for a new professorship for Accelerator Physics at the University of Bonn

Applications opened for a new professorship at the University of Bonn

The Forschungszentrum Jülich, together with its partners, has been awarded funding for the new Helmholtz “Color meets Flavor” Excellence Network (CmFEN).

The 24th Conference on Flavor Physics and CP violation takes place from 18th to 22nd of May, 2026 in the Physics Center in Bad Honnef

The "More than a lifetime" workshop that takes place at the University of Siegen from September 22 - 25, 2025, focuses on the description of the lifetime of heavy hadrons.

On July 15, 2025, the constituent meeting of the Color meets Flavor Cluster of Excellence will take place at the TU Dortmund University, bringing together physicists and administrators from the University of Bonn, TU Dortmund, University of Siegen, and Forschungszentrum Jülich.

On May 22, 2025, the Excellence Commission has accepted Color Meets Flavor as one of 70 Excellence Clusters.