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News about the Excellence Strategy (2024)

2 May 2024|Excellence Strategy

X-Ray Insights in Old Clay Envelopes

Presenting ENCI

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On 29 April 2024, in the presence of Hamburg’s science senator Katharina Fegebank and Professor Dr. Hauke Heekeren, researchers at Universität Hamburg...
23 April 2024|Excellence Strategy

PIER PLUS: Interdisciplinary Research Networking in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region

Event participants in discussion

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On 22 April, Universität Hamburg invited around 100 members of the institutions in the PIER PLUS research alliance to Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld...
15 April 2024|Campus

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Olena Dubovyk strengthens CLICCS and the MIN faculty

Prof. Dr. Olena Dubovyk

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Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: geoscientist...
15 April 2024|Excellence Strategy

The University of Excellence in Brief

Have you ever asked yourself what “University of Excellence” means, what it requires of Universität Hamburg, and what the University spend its...
26 March 2024|Excellence Strategy

Children’s concert in St. Nikolai: How Much Physics Can You Find in Music?

Photo hands organist

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On 6 April 2024, physics professor Wolfgang Hillert from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at Universität Hamburg and cantor Anne Michael...
25 March 2024|Press release

First global study of coastal seas as carbon dioxide reservoirs possible

Ocean Model ICON-Coast

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Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean. Ocean researchers have now...
7 March 2024|Press release

Ecosystem loss: Subsequent costs far higher than expected

Portrait Prof. Dr. Drupp

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Governments the world over are looking for novel approaches to evaluating ecosystem benefits and value. This is to illustrate the impacts of...
5 March 2024|Press release

UNESCO Chair Launched in Hamburg

Congratulating Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter (second from the right): MIN Dean Prof. Dr. Norbert Ritter, CLICCS Spokesperson Prof. Dr. Johanna Baehr, and University President Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren.

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UNESCO and Universität Hamburg jointly established the UNESCO Chair for Societal Climate Research and Resilience headed by Prof. Dr. Beate Ratter— the...
5 March 2024|Excellence Strategy

How European perceptions still influence the tropics today

Portrait Prof. Funes

Photo: Hias/C. Höhne

Once a year, Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence, along with other Hamburg higher education institutions, invites researchers and artists...
21 February 2024|Campus

Tenure Track: A Bit More Certainty

Prof. Dr. Elisa Schaum

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From April, Dr. Elisa Schaum will be a W2 professor of plankton ecology and evolution at Universität Hamburg, having successfully completed the the...