Mission Statement:
The Excellence Cluster ORIGINS: “From the Origins of the Universe to the First Building Blocks of Life” is an interdisciplinary research network based in Munich and Garching. Building on the previous Excellence Cluster Universe, a very fruitful collaboration between astro-, particle- and nuclear physicists, ORIGINS is exploring the conjecture of modern cosmology that the Universe and the emergence of life have naturally unfolded from the initial conditions laid out in the Big Bang. Open Science under FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets) principles has a long tradition in astrophysics and is showing increased activity in particle physics. The ORIGINS Data Science Lab (ODSL) was founded as a pillar for novel statistical data analysis and artificial intelligence in all ORIGINS (bio-)physics and chemistry disciplines. As a part of ODSL, the Dark Matter Data Centre (DMDC) provides an open science repository for dark matter-related experimental data, numerical simulations and related software to improve accessibility within the dark matter community.
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kuhr