11/17/2023 Prof. Erwin Frey, ORIGINS scientist and Chair of Statistical and Biological Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, receives the Max Planck Medal - the most prestigious German Physical Society (DPG) award.

11/16/2023 ORIGINS scientist and Max Planck Director Petra Schwille receives the highest recognition of the Federal Republic of Germany for services in the interest of the common good for her research.

11/09/2023 Since November 1, the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) has had a new address. After 65 years, the institute is saying "goodbye" to its location at the Englischer Garten in Munich and moving into a new building on the IPP site at the Garching Research Center. This closes a circle. The new domicile is not only located in the immediate vicinity of the excellence cluster ORIGINS, but also of the three MPIs, all of which were spun off from the MPP: the MPIs for Astrophysics, Plasma Physics, and Extraterrestrial Physics.

10/27/2023 ORIGINS physicist Prof. Johannes Henn has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council Synergy Grant for a project at the interface of particle physics, cosmology and mathematics.

10/25/2023 Cluster Emeritus Prof. Dr. Andrzej J. Buras from the Technical University of Munich will receive the Sakurai Prize (official name: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics). The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in theoretical particle physics. The Sakurai Prize will be awarded by the American Physical Society at its annual meeting from 3 to 6 April 2024 in Sacramento, California, and honors outstanding achievements in particle physics theory.

10/16/2023 ORIGINS scientist and science journalist Harald Lesch has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

09/15/2023 The LMU astrophysicist and ORIGINS scientist has won the award for his modeling of dust traps in protoplanetary disks, solving a long-standing puzzle in planet formation.

09/07/2023 For the third time, the PhD students of the Cluster of Excellence ORIGINS met within the framework of the PhD Days 2023. During the three-day workshop at the end of August in the Seeon monastery, 26 young researchers exchanged ideas about their research in stimulating discussions. The meeting was organized and planned by ORIGINS PhD Representatives Asmaa Mazoun (TUM) and Leonard Romano (LMU).

08/09/2023 Lukas Heinrich, who heads the ORIGINS Data Science Laboratory (ODSL) at the ORIGINS Cluster as Professor of Data Science in Physics, was interviewed as part of the TUM series "NewIn". With his team, he develops new methods to discover new elementary particles in huge amounts of data.

08/03/2023 The pixel vertex detector, which is about the size of a soda can and is the innermost sub-detector of the international experiment Belle II, has been successfully installed at its final location at the SuperKEKB electron–positron collider at the KEK laboratory in Japan. The device, which is designed to detect the signals of certain particle decays that could shed light on the origin of the observed imbalance of matter and antimatter in the universe, has ventured a long way over a long time from its production site in Munich to its final destination in Japan.