PRISMA++ Internship Program

PRISMA⁺⁺ offers short-term internships at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz to outstanding bachelor’s and master’s degree graduates in physics. A “PRISMA⁺⁺ Internship” lasts between eight and twelve weeks. During this time, supervision is provided by a scientist from the cluster. Depending on the distance, travel expenses are reimbursed at a flat rate for the duration of the internship:

up to 500 km journey: 250 euros
up to 1000 km journey: 500 euros
for a journey of over 1000 km: 700 euros

In addition, accommodation costs will be reimbursed as a lump sum depending on the duration of the internship:

for 8 weeks stay: 1400 euros
for 9 weeks stay: 1575 euros
for 10 weeks stay: 1750 euros
for 11 weeks stay: 1925 euros
for 12 weeks stay: 2100 euros

The PRISMA⁺⁺Coordination Office provides support with finding accommodation. Please note that living expenses or daily allowances cannot be covered.

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The university of Mainz offers an excellent research environment and outstanding research facilities in the field of particle and hadron physics. In the cluster of excellence PRISMA⁺⁺ “Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions and Structure of Matter”, students can expect excellent learning and further training opportunities. During their internship, the internship candidates work in one or more areas of particle and hadron physics within a research group of the cluster.

The internships at the university of Mainz are offered all year round. During their stay at the university of Mainz, the candidates support experienced researchers in their laboratories. The aim of the internship is to familiarize potential doctoral candidates with the research facilities and research opportunities at the university of Mainz. Internship candidates also have the opportunity to participate in discussions with internationally renowned researchers from the faculty of physics and to attend their seminars and lectures.

Admission
The program is open to all outstanding bachelor’s and master’s graduates in physics, preferably with research experience.

Why PRISMA⁺⁺internship? An internship at the University of Mainz can be an essential part of an academic education. It opens up career opportunities and helps you decide whether a doctorate in particle or hadron physics fits your personal career goals. It also promotes academic progress and helps you gain practical experience in the academic world.

How to apply for an internship?
Please fill out our application form completely. In addition, you should send us the following documents to mpa@uni-mainz.de:

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Thank you for your interest in the PRISMA+ internship program. Please complete all fields in this short application form. Please inform yourself thoroughly in advance about the research areas of our members. After submitting your application, please send us a letter of motivation, your university transcripts including transcripts and your CV by e-mail to mpa@uni-mainz.de.

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Application deadlines
Summer Internship (preferred stay between April and September): January 31
Winter Internship (preferred stay between October and March): July 01

You will receive a short confirmation from our office by email after submitting your documents. We will then check whether your documents meet the requirements for participation in the PRISMA⁺⁺Internship Program. You will be informed about the result of the selection procedure within a few weeks.

John Michael Basilio

Home university: University of the Philippines Baguio
Research Interests: Experimental Particle Physics, Neutrino Oscillation Physics, Detector Development
Research Group: AG Wurm, Prof. Michael Wurm
Internship period: June 23, 2025 – September 19, 2025
Contact: jgbasilio@alumni.up.edu.ph

Abhishek Sharma

Home university: University of Delhi
Research Interests: Experimental Neutrino Physics
Research Group: ETAP, Prof. Alfons Weber
Internship period: October 10, 2025 – December 19, 2025
Contact: ab0808shek@gmail.com

Anantha Srinivasan L

Home university: National Institute of Technology Calicut
Research Interests: Lattice QCD
Research Group: Theory Group, Prof. Georg von Hippel
Internship period: November 11, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Contact: anandsrini.0712@gmail.com

Utkarsh Bajpai

Home University: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali
Research interests: Experimental Nuclear and Precision Physics
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Martin Fertl
Internship period: November 11, 2024 – January 31, 2025
Contact: kuku.utkarsh@gmail.com

Nicholas Leister

Home university: Technical University of Munich
Research Interests: Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology
Research group: THEP, Prof. Pedro Schwaller
Internship period: July 1, 2024 – September 20, 2024
Contact: nleister@uni-mainz.de

Tomohiro Eda

Home university: Tohoku University
Research Interests: Neutrino physics
Research GroupAG WURM, Prof. Michael Wurm
Internship period: May 15, 2024 – August 08, 2024
Contact: eda@awa.tohoku.ac.jp

Pandey Manas

Home university: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Research Interests: Magnetometry and Atomic Physics
Research Group: HIM, Prof. Dmitry Budker
Internship period: May 02, 2024 – July 26, 2024
Contact: themanaspandey@gmail.com

Sreejit Das

Home University: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
Research Interests: Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP), Non Perturbative QFT, Beyond Standard Model Physics
Research group: THEP, Prof. Carlos Tamarit
Internship period: September 14, 2024 – November 09, 2024
Contact: sdasofficial02@gmail.com

Stefan Katsarov

Home university: The University of Edinburgh
Research interests: Experimental Particle Physics, Machine Learning, BSM physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Volker Büscher
Zeitraum Internship: October 09, 2023 – December 22, 2023 and January 15, 2024 – January 22, 2024
Contact: stefankatsarov@outlook.com

Samyak Jain

Home university: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Research interests: Particle Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, High Energy Physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Sebastian Böser
Internship period: November 28, 2023 – January 10, 2024
Contact: samyakjain02@gmail.com

Una Alberti

Home university: The University of Edinburgh
Research interests: Experimental Particle Physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Alfons Weber
Internship period: July 17, 2023 – September 10, 2023
Contact: unaalberti@outlook.com

Trinity Stenhouse

Home university: Imperial College London
Research interests: Effective Field Theory, Machine Learning, Higgs and Theoretical Astroparticle Physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Volker Buescher
Internship period: July 10, 2023 – September 22, 2023
Contact: trinity.stenhouse@btinternet.com

Tanushree Bhattacharya

Home university: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Research interests: Theoretical Astroparticle Physics, Dark Matter Physics, Astrophysics.
Research group: AG Prof. Julia Harz
Internship period: July 17, 2023 – August 15, 2023
Contact: tanushreebhattacharya65@gmail.com

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay

Home University: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Research Interests: Neutrino Physics, Theoretical Physics, General Relativity, and Field Theory.
Research Group: ETAP Prof. Sebastian Böser
Internship period: May 20, 2023 – July 27, 2023
Contact: siddharthabandyopadhyay08@gmail.com

Rolando Martínez Ramírez

Home university: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Research interests: Theoretical Particle Physics, Precision Tests of the Standard Model
Research group: Institute for Nuclear Physics, Prof. Jens Erler
Internship period: May 22, 2023 – July 14, 2023
Contact: rolandomr@estudiantes.fisica.unam.mx

Max Ferré

Home university: Ecole Normale Supérieure, master’s degree (M2) International Centre for Fundamental Physics (ICFP)
Research interests: Theoritical High Energy Physics and Flavor Physics and QCD)
Research group: THEP, Professor of Matthias Neubert
Internship period: April 17, 2023 – July 07, 2023
Contact: max.ferre@ens.fr

Dhaval J Ajana

Home university: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Research interests: Neutrino Physics, Core-collapse Supernovae
Research group: AG Wurm, Prof. Michael Wurm
Internship period: January 16, 2023 – April 06, 2023
Contact: ajana.dhaval.2@gmail.com

Alejandra Irene Hinostroza Caldas

Home university: Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (UNI), Peru
Research interests: Machine Learning Techniques in Lattice QCD Simulations
Research group: Institute for Nuclear Physics, Prof. Hartmut Wittig
Internship period: November 28, 2022 – February 3, 2023
Contact: ahinostrozac@uni.pe

Amala Augusthy

Home university: University of Hamburg
Research interests: Muon track reconstruction for DISCO set-up
Research group: AG Wurm, Prof. Michael Wurm
Internship period: November 02, 2022 – January 27, 2023
Contact: augusthyamala@gmail.com

Shania Mitra

Home university: University of Hamburg
Research interests: High Energy Physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Alfons Weber
Internship period: August 01, 2022 – September 30, 2022
Contact: shania.mitra@studium.uni-hamburg.de

Marek Młynarski

Home university: AGH University of Science and Technology
Research interests: High Energy Physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Matthias Schott
Internship period: June 27, 2022 – August 26, 2022
Contact: mmlynar@protonmail.ch

Dominic Agius

Home university:The University of Sydney
Research interests: High Energy Physics, BSM Physics
Research group: THEP, Prof. Pedro Schwaller
Internship period: June 01, 2022 – August 14, 2022
Contact: dominic_agius@outlook.com

Pokhee Saharia

Home university: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
Research interests: Neutrino Physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Alfons Weber
Internship period: May 23, 2022 – August 12, 2022
Contact: ms18190@iisermohali.ac.in

Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos

Home university: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Research interests: Theoretical particle physics, BSM Physics
Research group: THEP, Prof. Felix Yu
Internship period: April 25, 2022 – July 08, 2022
Contact: ndimitrak@phys.uoa.gr

Dhruv Chouhan

Home university: Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology,Surat, INDIA
Research interests: Experimental Particle Physics, ALP searches
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Matthias Schott
Internship period: January 07, 2022 – April 08, 2022
Contact: dhruvchouhan30@gmail.com

Ophir Ruimi

Home university: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research interests: Experimental Particle Physics, Nuclear Astrophysics, BSM Physics, ALPs searches
Research group: HIM/QUANTUM, Prof. Dmitry Budker
Internship period: January 10, 2022 – April 01, 2022
Contact: ophir.ruimi@mail.huji.ac.il

Chin Zhe Tee

Home university: National Taiwan University
Research interests: Experimental particle physics, machine learning
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Volker Büscher, under the supervision of Prof. Christian Schmitt
Internship period: October 18, 2021 – January 07, 2022
Contact: cztee96@gmail.com

Ana Andrade

Home university: RWTH Aachen University
Research interests: Theoretical Particle Physics, BSM Physics
Research group: THEP, Prof. Felix Yu
Internship period: October 01, 2021 – December 23, 2021
Contact: ana.andrade@rwth-aachen.de

Georgios Lamprinoudis

Home university: National Technical University of Athens/ University of Glasgow
Research interests: Experimental particle physics, BSM physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Lucia Masetti
Internship period: September 27, 2021 – December 17, 2021
Contact: Giorgos.lampr812@gmail.com

Grzegorz Lukasiewicz

Home university: Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Research interests: GNOME project
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Dmitry Budker
Internship period: October 04, 2021 – December 17, 2021
Contact: gregory.lukasiewicz@gmail.com

Aitor Alaña

Home university: Bilbao, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
Research interests: Quantum technologies, Fundamental physics
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Ferdinand Schmidt Kaler
Internship period: September 28, 2020 – December 04, 2020
Contact: aitoralana@gmail.com

José de Jesús Padua Argüelles

Home university: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Research interests: String theory and phenomenology
Research group: THEP, Prof. Timo Weigand
Internship period: June 29, 2020 – August 28, 2020 (Remote Internship)
Contact: jospadua@ciencias.unam.mx

Andris Potrebko

Home university: Lund University, Sweden
Research interests: Particle Physics Phenomenology and Lattice Quantum Field Theory
Research group: Institute of Nuclear Physics, Prof. Hartmut Wittig
Internship period: July 01, 2020 – August 31, 2020
Contact: andris.potrebko@gmail.com

Thomas Guilbaud

Home university: Ensicaen Engineering School, France
Research interests: Deceleration of UCN with a piston through simulations
Research group: SPECT experiment, Prof. Dieter Ries and Prof. Martin Fertl
Internship period: June 02, 2020 – August 20, 2020 (Remote Internship)
Contact: thomas.g7685@gmail.com

Kaustav Dutta

Home university: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Research interests: Experimental Particle Physics, BSM Physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Sebastian Böser
Internship period: May 18, 2020 – August 06, 2020 (Remote Internship)
Contact: kaustav.loyola@gmail.com

Conner Dailey

Home university: University of Nevada, Reno
Research interests: Strong Gravity, Astrophysics, Machine Learning
Research group: HIM, Prof. Dmitri Budker
Internship period: January 10, 2020 – February 28, 2020
Contact: c.dailey18@gmail.com

Olivera Vujinovic

Home university: University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Research interests: Experimental and computational particle physics, BSM physics, Search for axion-like particles
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Matthias Schott
Contact: oljavujinovic@gmail.com

Sajant Anand

Home university: University of Cambridge
Research interests: Atomic physics and quantum simulation
Research group: Prof. Dmitry Budker / QUANTUM, Prof. Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Contact: sajantanand@alumni.wfu.edu

William Roth

Home university: Imperial College London
Research interests: Experimental and computational particle physics
Research group: MAGIX group, Prof. Achim Denig
Contact: william.roth18@imperial.ac.uk

Jorge Terol Calvo

Home university: IFIC (Universitat de València-CSIC)
Research interests: Neutrino physics, BSM physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Michael Wurm
Contact: jortecal@alumni.uv.es

Elias Alstead

Home university: George Washington University
Research interests: Trapped ions, quantum optics, and atomic physics
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Contact: eliasalstead20@gwmail.gwu.edu

Siddhartha Emmanuel Morales Guzmán

Home university: National University Autonomous of Mexico, UNAM
Research interests: Quantum Field Theory, BCJ numerators and Double Copy
Research group: THEP, Prof. Stefan Weinzierl
Contact: sidd.morales@ciencias.unam.mx

Kadir Çeven

Home university: Bilkent University, Turkey
Research interests: Experimental and computational particle physics
Research group: Project 8, Prof. Sebastian Böser
Contact: kadir.ceven@ug.bilkent.edu.tr

Margarita Gavrilova

Home university: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)
Research interests: Theoretical Particle Physics, BSM Physics
Research group: Theoretical High Energy Physics, Prof. Felix Yu
Contact: gavrilova@phystech.edu

Florian Schwarz

Home university: University of Würzburg, DE
Research topic: Jacobi identities and kinematic Lie algebras
Research group: Theoretical High Energy Physics, Group of Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl
Contact: florian.schwarzfamily@web.de

Emmanouil Georgios Drimalas

Home university: National University of Athens, GRE
Research topic: A dispersion approach to the general one-loop two-point scalar function.
Research group: Theoretical High Energy Physics, Group of Prof. Dr. Hubert Spiesberger
Contact: egdrimalas@gmail.com

Ante Ravlic

Home university: University of Zagreb, HRV
Research interests: Camera System for Electrode Inspection of the Xenon Detector
Research group: Experimental Particle Physics, XENON Group, Prof. Dr. Uwe Oberlack
Contact: ante.ravlic43@gmail.com

Ahmed Refat Mohamed Ouf

Home university: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Research interests: Precession measurements of fundamental constants, The Proton charge radius, Exotic atoms, Atomic physics.
Research group: Laser spectroscopy of exotic atoms, group of Prof. Dr. Randolf Pohl
Contact: refat.ouf@bilkent.edu.tr

Eleanor Trimby

Home university: University of Glasgow, UK
Research Interests: Cold Ions and their applications, quantum computation, Atomic Physics
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Contact: 2173056t@student.gla.ac.uk

Sebastian Horvat

Home university: University of Zagreb, Croatia
Research interests: Theoretical nuclear and particle physics
Research group: Institute of Nuclear Physics, Prof. Dr. Sonia Bacca
Contact: horvatsebastian96@gmail.com

Kirsten Tempest

Home university: University of Glasgow
Research Interests: Two-loop electron self-energy in quantum electrodynamics
Research Group: THEP, Prof. Stefan Weinzierl
Contact: k.tempest@aol.co.uk

Aaron Wang

Home university: University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Search for axions or axion-like dark matter particles using experimental atomic and optical physics.
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof, Dmitry Budker
Contact: aaronwang333@gmail.com

Lorenzo Polidori

Home university: University of Glasgow
Research Interests: Design of the FLEX cable employed in the High Granularity Timing Detector for the next upgrade of ATLAS.
Research Group: ETAP, Lucia Masetti
Contact: 2169697P@student.gla.ac.uk

Mohamed Abdelbaset

Home university: University of Program for International Student Assessment, Italy
Research interests: Experimental particle physics, Direct Searches for Dark Matter with XENON
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Dr. Uwe Oberlack
Contact: mohamed237.nuc@gmail.com

Bianka Mecaj

Home university: École Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay
Research interests: Theoretical particle physics, electro-weak sector of the Standard Model
Research group: THEP, AG Pedro Schwaller
Contact: bianka.mecaj@polytechnique.edu

Asmae Benhemou

Home university: University of Glasgow, UK
Research interests: Experimental Particle Physics and Data Analysis for the ILC detector prototype
Research group: ETAP, Lucia Masetti
Contact: 2118786B@student.gla.ac.uk

Gustavo Ramirez Hidalgo

Home university: University of Glasgow, UK
Research interests: Higgs physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Dr. Volker Büscher
Contact: 2128894B@student.gla.ac.uk

Andrew Beckett

Home university: University of Glasgow, UK
Research interests: Higgs physics
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Dr. Volker Büscher
Contact: 2128894B@student.gla.ac.uk

Mohit Verma

Home University: University of Toronto, Canada
Research interests: Experimental Atomic Physics
Research group: Prof. Dr. Randolf Pohl
Contact: mohit.verma@mail.utoronto.ca

Alex Zinoman

Home University: Columbia University in the City of New York, NY
Research interests: Quantum optics and atomic physics
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Dr. Dmitry Budker
Contact: az2424@columbia.edu

Juan Pablo Vesga

Home university: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota
Research interests: Gauge Theories and Quantum Chromodynamics
Research Group: Theoretical High Energy Physics, Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl
Contact: jpvesgas@unal.edu.co

Xu Yu

Home University: Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin
Research interests: Data analysis for SOX and JUNO experiment
Research group: ETAP, Prof. Dr. Michael Wurm
Contact: xu.yu@hit.edu.cn

Andrew Gibson

Home University: University of Glasgow, Glasgow
Research interests: Parity-violation in electron scattering
Research group: Experiment A1, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Prof. Dr. Concettina Sfienti
Contact: 1002348G@student.gla.ac.uk

Brian Timar

Home University: University of California, Berkeley
Research interests: Cold Ions & Experimental Quantum Information
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
Contact: briantimar@berkeley.edu

Brad Bachu

Home University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
Research interests: Astroparticle Physics
Research group: Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kopp
Contact: bbachu@mit.edu

Kimmy Cushman

Home University: State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
Research interests: Quantum optics and atomic physics
Research group: Professor of Dmitry Budker
Contact: cushkk80@suny.oneonta.edu

Marina Gil

Home university: University of Valencia
Research interests: Quantum optics and atomic physics
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Dr. Dmitry Budker
Contact: magilsen@alumni.uv.es

Edouard Uznanski

Home university: University of Nantes
Research interests: Neutrino Physics
Research group: Experimental Particle Physics, Prof. Dr. Michael Wurm
Contact: edouard.uznanski@etu.univ-nantes.fr

Jatan Buch

Home university: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Research interests: BSM Physics, Dark Matter Phenomenology, Neutrino Physics
Research group: Theoretische Physik/Mathematische Physik, Prof. Johannes Henn
Contact: jatan.buch@uni-mainz.de

Zoe Pierce

Home university: George Washington University
Research interests: Neutron Skin Program at MAMI and MESA
Research group: MAMI Mainzer Mikrotron, Institute of Nuclear Physics
Contact: zpierce@gwmail.gwu.edu

Hector Masia Roig

Home university: Universität Valencia
Research interests: Quantenoptik und Atomphysik
Research group: QUANTUM, Prof. Dr. Dmitry Budker
Contact: hectroig@uni-mainz.de