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This page provides you with all news from Universität Hamburg, which is divided into the following categories: 19neunzehn, Campus, Research, In focus, Internal, Interviews, and Videos.

2 October 2025|Excellence Strategy

Thoughts on the “Marvelous Magnifying Glass”

A high-resolution electron microscope reveals the distribution of elements in a nanoparticle

Photo: UHH/Kornowski

With its 5 electron microscopes, the University of Hamburg is a major location for these large pieces of equipment. The chemist Dr. Charlotte Ruhmlieb...
1 October 2025|Research

New platform makes it easier to access services from Hamburg foundations.

A person works on a laptop with the new foundation platform on the screen

Photo: Hamburg/Canva Foundation Office

On 1 October, a new platform went online that provides more transparency and guidance through Hamburg’s diverse foundation landscape. For the first...
30 September 2025|Campus

University-wide and interdisciplinary: Gaetano Rago Presents the Hub for Crossdisciplinary Learning

Gaetano Rago

Photo: University of Hamburg / Yzer

The goal of the new Hub for Crossdisciplinary Learning (HCL) is to provide an innovative, interdisciplinary range of courses and support for...
29 September 2025|Campus

The University’s new Science City lecture hall center is taking shape.

Visualization of the new lecture hall center of the University of Hamburg from the inside

Photo: Büro Luchterhandt & Partner

The Science City is growing. And so is campus of the University of Hamburg and other scientific institutions in Bahrenfeld. Aiming to provide the...
25 September 2025|Research

Long-Term Study in the Elbe Estuary: Fish Population Down by 90 Percent

A cutter on the Elbe

Photo: University of Hamburg / Thiel

In the last 4 decades, fish fauna in the Elbe estuary has changed dramatically according a project jointly conducted by the University of Hamburg and...
18 September 2025|Im Fokus

University’s Bundesstraße campus on the home stretch

Haus der Erde

Photo: HTP Hidde Timmermann Architekten / bloomimages

After delays and cost increases, the end is finally in sight for the new buildings on the Bundesstraße university campus: There is now a clear...
15 September 2025|Research

Sustainability Reports: AI analyzes topics and supply chains

Sustainability topics in the Lufthansa annual report for 2024, depicted in a “topic model.”

Photo: UHH/Cordes

When corporations address sustainability they do it for marketing purposes and often in standardized ways. Hannes Cordes, who is working for the...
9 September 2025|In Focus

“Scientific expertise should inform political decision-making”

Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

Many large companies have to provide reports on their activities when it comes to the climate, the environment, and social sustainability. The EU...
5 September 2025|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Mira Sack strengthens Education.

Prof. Dr. Mira Sack

Photo: Claudia Bickel

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: theater...
2 September 2025|In focus

Study compares development of low writing and reading skills in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Woman sits in a library reading

Photo: University of Hamburg / Weimer

The LEO study and the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies measure and literacy in adults. To mark the International...
1 September 2025|Research

When Tom Aces a Quiz—Researching Spontaneous Judgments

Symbolic illustration on forming judgments, with colorful, stylized overlapping human heads

Photo: iStock/wildpixel

Even when we just read about someone’ behavior, we often judge within seconds. What mechanisms are at play and which information influences our value...
27 August 2025|Research

Once upon a time—a project examining links between fairy tales and economic growth

Illustration of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf

Photo: iStock/ZU_09

Values and norms have been passed on in legends and fairy tales for centuries. A research team led by Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt from the Faculty of Law...
8 August 2025|Campus

Interdisciplinarity is key

Map of the Science City, including University of Hamburg buildings

Photo: University of Hamburg / Engels

The Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld is changing faster than any other research center in Hamburg. On occasion, we ask University of Hamburg members to...
6 August 2025|Excellence Strategy

Timing for Parenthood, the Great Unknown

Photo toddler holding parents’ hands

Photo: University of Hamburg / Dingler

At what point do couples decide to have children? How is this decided? And how does this impact society? Economist Dr. Christian Zimpelmann wants to...
4 August 2025|In Focus

“We have only just begun to discover the radical individuality of the brain.”

Portrait of Prof. Dr. André Frank Zimpel

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

People on the autism spectrum, with ADHD, or with epilepsy are neurodivergent. This means: Their brain functions differ significantly from what is...
30 July 2025|Exzellenzstrategie

Cluster of Excellence CLICCS: Video Insights Into Climate Research

Faces of Research: Climate Research
Where does the carbon go when Earth continues to warm – and what makes us more likely to practice climate protection? Two experts present their...
25 July 2025|Excellence Strategy

New ExStra funding: Innovative rooms for innovative teaching

Illustration of the University of Hamburg Main Building

Photo: University of Hamburg / Vogiatzis

The first projects funded by the Fund for Innovative Teaching (FIL) have been announced. The motto of the call for proposals was “Innovative spaces...
22 July 2025|Campus

Seven University of Hamburg teachers were awarded the 2025 Hamburg Teaching Prize

Dr. Tobias Vlćek, Dr. Manuel Becker, Dr. Patrick Ziegelmüller, Stella Mercedes Fingas, Maryam Blumenthal (science senator), Prof. Dr. Lars Hummel, Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Allgoewer, and Prof. Dr. Kira Weber (from left) at the award ceremony for the Hamburg Teaching Prize

Photo: Kirstin Hammerstein, Ministry of Science, Research and Equality

In addition to the University of Hamburg, the Ministry of Science, Research and Equalities also honors particularly excellent university learning...
17 July 2025|Research

Social norms, law, and justice—normative conflicts and how they arise

Prof. Dr. Jonas Bens during his research in Tanzania.

Photo: UHH/Bens

Many legal issues, for example the question of property, are regulated differently in different societies. Prof. Dr. Jonas Bens, Heisenberg Professor...
15 July 2025|Excellence Strategy

Holy Warriors, Monasteries, and Demons

Photo of the student research group

Photo: Private

How do video games and TV series portray the Christian religion? Three students at the University of Hamburg are researching exactly that, and...