Wübben Student Grant 2025Award for Physics master's student

7 October 2025

Photo: UHH/AG Garutti

Physics master's student Nabil Salema at the Axion Cavity Experiment, which was developed as part of the SPACE student research project. Salama received the Wübben Student Grant for his special scientific interest.

Since October, the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft (Wübben Foundation for Science) has been supporting Nabil Salama, a master's student at the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg, with a student grant for a total of twelve months. With this scholarship, the foundation annually honors students who stand out in the field of clusters of excellence due to their particular scientific interest.

Nabil Salama is a third-semester master's student. His studies focus in particular on the development and application of artificial intelligence in particle physics and dark matter research. For the student research project SPACE, Salama and a fellow student received 10,000 Euro funding from the Hub for Crossdisciplinary Learning at the University of Hamburg in 2024.

For his master's thesis, Nabil Salama is conducting research on the MADMAX experiment in the working group of Prof. Dr. Erika Garutti, spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at the University of Hamburg. Just in time for the start of his scholarship in October, he will be spending three months at the University of California Berkeley near San Francisco in the USA as part of a research semester abroad.

With the Student Grant, the Wübben Foundation supports up to 55 students from all disciplines at German universities for one year with a monthly stipend of 1,000 Euro. The scholarship recipients are particularly interested in the key scientific topics in their field and were nominated for the Student Grant by the spokespersons of the clusters of excellence.