The PANDA experiment at the future FAIR facility in Darmstadt, Germany represents a new opportunity for the hadron physics community to study QCD in the non-perturbative regime with antiprotons. The rate of antiproton annihilations, 2·107 per second, presents a challenge for the detector components, the trigger and the data acquisition systems. Therefore the usage of the most performant and up-todate technology is required. The antiproton beam of unprecedented quality in the momentum range from 1.5 GeV/c to 15 GeV/c will allow to make high precision, high statistics measurements, from charmonium spectroscopy to the search for exotic hadrons. A study of nucleon structure, in-medium modications of hadron masses and the physics of S=-2 hypernuclei are also foreseen.
