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.

In the newest issue of Spark!, the science podcast of the University of Siegen, Prof. Dr. Alexander Lenz is being interviewed on the topic of elementary particle physics. The podcast focuses on the key question which information on the big questions of humanity such as "What are we made of?" and "How did our universe and the matter it contains emerge?" can be extracted from the smallest building blocks of the universe. The focus here lies on the theoretical aspects of particle physics.

The podcast is available in German on all common podcast platforms, as well as on youtube.