News & Dates

06.10.2026: ANSWERS: A new doorway to explore superheavy nuclei

A research team from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has studied four superheavy nuclei with a newly developed experimental technique. ...

25.09.2026: Melanie Feucht wins poster prize at GDCh annual meeting

Melanie Pavana Feucht from our group is a winner of the “Best Poster Award” at the Annual Meeting of the Nuclear Chemistry Division of the GDCh which took place at JGU Mainz from September 22–24, 2026. ...

11.08.2026: Laser spectroscopy helps reveal hidden nuclear properties in fermium

First high-precision measurements of the fermium-255 nucleus validate modern nuclear models and advance the search for superheavy elements ...

29.04.2026: Katharina Hermainski Accepted into JGU’s Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program

Support for Junior Fellows Across Disciplinary Boundaries The Gutenberg Academy Fellows Program (GAFP) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) welcomed eleven new Junior Fellows during its annual induction ceremony. ...

03.04.2026: ECHo Collaboration: Hunting for the Neutrino Mass with “Cool” Detectors

Current research results are the basis for large-scale experiments to get closer to the mass of "ghost particles". ...

26.03.2026: Best Poster Award for Yuki Ishikawa at 12ICI Conference

Yuki Ishikawa, PhD student in our group, is a winner of the “Best Poster Presentation Award” at the Young Session of the "12th International Conference on Isotopes (12ICI)”, which took place in Florence, Italy, ...

12.03.2026: First Thorium Evening during DPG SAMOP meeting in Mainz

The first Thorium Evening took place on March 4, 2026, during the DPG Spring Meeting SAMOP 2026 at the Helmholtz Institute Mainz. More than 60 participants from Germany, across Europe, and as far as the United States gathered to discuss the future of research oriented at thorium-229 and related aspects in and around Germany. ...

16.02.2026: Our letter on the discovery of the new superheavy isotope Sg-257 at TASCA is one of three nuclear physics papers in the PRL collection 2025

Our recent letter entitled “Probing the Shell Effects on Fission: The New Superheavy Nucleus ²⁵⁷Sg” (P. Mosat et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 232501 (2025)) has been selected and included in the Physical Review Letters Collection of the Year 2025. ...

19.12.2025: Best Student Oral Presentation Award for Jonas Stricker

Jonas Stricker (photo below), PhD student in our group, is one of the winner of the "Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the "International Conference on Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry (MARC)”. ...

04.12.2025: TASCA 26 workshop announced

In 2026 the traditional TASCA workshop on “Recoil Separator for Superheavy Element Chemistry & Physics” will take place again; it will be held in presence. ...