The Research Cluster ELEMENTS: Exploring the Universe from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales brought together world-leading scientists from distinct fields of research to combine the microscopical scales of elementary particles with the macroscopical scales of astrophysical objects.
The ultimate goal is to address the question of the origin of the heavy chemical elements, such as platinum and gold, in our universe.
ELEMENTS was funded from April 2021 until March 2025.
Read about the fundamental-physics questions ELEMENTS is answering in different Working Areas and take a look at our research facilities.
Are you interested in exploring the elements? Come discover the universe with us at one of our various outreach events!
More than 100 physicists from different fields are working together in ELEMENTS. Get to know us!
Take a look at our program for Early Career Researchers and Equal Opportunities and learn how to join us.
After four enriching years, our Cluster Project ELEMENTS has reached its final chapter. We look back on an incredible journey filled with groundbreaking research, inspiring
On 5 February 2025, ELEMENTS-spokesperson Luciano Rezzolla will receive the PRACE HPC Excellence Award 2024, which recognises groundbreaking research and scientific advances through the use
On 19 October 2024, Goethe University’s science talk “Wissen Angezapft” (Knowledge on Tap) is hosting an ELEMENTS-scientist once again: Camilla Juul Hansen talks about the
The Frankfurter Kunstverein’s exhibition “The Presence of Absence” delves into the concepts of change and transience, and how these are represented in art. A unique
The electron accelerator S-DALINAC at the Institute for Nuclear Physics, in use since 1964, rarely opens to the public. However, on October 1st, guests from
Researchers from TU Darmstadt and the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a new theoretical model to study the inner crust of neutron stars. Their work,
