What Is PUNCH4NFDI?

PUNCH4NFDI is the NFDI consortium of particle, astro-, astroparticle, hadron, and nuclear physics, involving about 9.000 scientists with a Ph.D. degree in Germany, who work in universities, the Max Planck society, the Leibniz Association, and the Helmholtz Association. PUNCH physics addresses the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions, as well as their role in the development of the largest structures in the universe - stars and galaxies.

PUNCH4NFDI has set out to facilitate user-oriented and community-overarching data-driven research in the fields of particle, astro-, astroparticle, nuclear & hadron (PUNCH) physics, efficiently employing heterogeneous and federated computing and storage infrastructures. The prime goal of PUNCH4NFDI is to establish a decentralised community-serving science data platform obeying the FAIR data principles, and to integrate it into the NFDI.