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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.

3 May 2023|Excellence Strategy

Taking Stock in the Excellence Strategy—CUI

Group photo CUI staff

Photo: UHH/Garten

Since 2019 Universität Hamburg has been a University of Excellence. A year earlier, 4 clusters of excellence received grants. What has been...
2 May 2023|Campus

Cooperation to counter IT expert shortage and promote more practical curricula

Prof. Dr. Jan Recker and Christoph Diekmeyer

Photo: Tobias Mahlberg

Courses offered by the professorship for information systems and digital innovation now allow students of business administration to focus on topics...
24 April 2023|Excellence Strategy

Madagascar’s Biodiversity in Crisis

A river in Madagascar; people on a boat

Photo: Leo van Versendaal

The funding measure Hamburglobal PhD, which taps resources from the Excellence Strategy, enables doctoral researchers at Universität Hamburg to study...
24 April 2023|Campus

A different kind of soccer: The RoboCup 2023 event in Hamburg

Photo of robots and their developers at the last competition

Photo: Florian Vahl/Bit-Bots

If you never caught the spirit of soccer or felt alienated by the commercialization of professional soccer, this April holds an opportunity to...
21 April 2023|Campus

EUGLOH: “Building a strong and well-connected alliance”

EUGLOH logo

Photo: EUGLOH

Since 2021, Universität Hamburg has been a member of the European University Alliance for Global Health, or “EUGLOH” for short. Viktoria Kurnosenko...
11 April 2023|In Focus

Universität Hamburg alumni and their career paths—Education

Dr. Meike Nieß, Marco Helms, Gloria Boateng, Ann-Kathrin Gomolzig, Prof. Dr. Tanja Salem

Photo: Studioline, BGW 2022, Miguel Ferraz, private, FH Potsdam/Andrea Hansen

Every year, thousands of students earn their degree here. Hundreds of doctorates are also awarded. And the career options available after that are...
5 April 2023|Research

Doing the Research series: Can Algorithms Create the Perfect Portfolio?

View of a computer screen showing stock market prices

Photo: Pixabay PIX1861

What conditions do capital markets require and which instruments can make them more predictable? These are a few of the research topics in the focus...
4 April 2023|Campus

“Welcome Aboard!” Prof. Dr. Freydis Vogel strengthens the Department of Education.

Prof. Dr. Freydis Vogel

Photo: Private

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: education...
3 April 2023|Excellence Strategy

Teaching tandem: critical view of migration as presented in museums

Illustration of a street scene in Five Points

Photo: public domain

Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence will be funding interdisciplinary teaching tandems for the third time in Summer Semester 2023. Two...
27 March 2023|Research

Knowledge exchange project: imaging procedure to fight chronic diseases

Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner, Katharina Fegebank, Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost, Dr. Bakr Fadl, Dr. Theresa Staufer

Photo: UHH/Kaminski

To treat many diseases, it is vital to understand the exact nature of immune cells. A research team headed by Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner at Universität...
22 March 2023|In focus

Universität Hamburg alumni on their path towards a career—psychology and human movement science

Dr. Ann-Kathrin Rogge, Prof. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke, Dr. Christoph Ramcke, Dr. Mario Bogdanov

Photo: Universität Hamburg, RRZ/MCC, Mentz; Dennis Williamson; private (2)

Every year, thousands of students earn their degree here. Hundreds of doctorates are also awarded. And the career options available after that are...
21 March 2023|Campus

Visit from Lund: Deepening the Strategic Partnership

Group photo of the delegations from Universität Hamburg and Lund University

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Esfandiari

Digitalization, sustainability, career paths in academia, diversity, and equal opportunity— these topics are the focus of the visit by the 10-person...
10 March 2023|In focus

Traute Lafrenz dies at 103

Traute Lafrenz

Photo: public domain

Last surviving member of the White Rose: Traute Lafrenz. A Hamburg native, she started to study medicine at Universität Hamburg in 1939 and became an...
3 March 2023|Campus

Macquarie University: Strategic Partnership for Doctoral and Early Career Researcher Support

Bruce Dowton and Hauke Heereren with the signed cooperation contract

Photo: UHH/Schreiber

The main focus of a visit to Universität Hamburg by a delegation from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) was support for doctoral and early...
3 March 2023|Campus

“Welcome Aboard!” Prof. Dr. Daniel Fliege strengthens the humanities.

Literary scholar Prof. Dr. Daniel Fliege

Photo: Private

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Literary...
2 March 2023|In focus

AI in education: “ChatGPT is just the Tip of the Iceberg”

Image generated by AI response to prompts “Education” and “Artificial Intelligence”

Photo: UHH/EW

The machine-learning based dialog system ChatGPT knows all the answers and can type them out for those who ask. What does that mean for learning and...
28 February 2023|Research

New Antarctic expedition: Tracking of Fin Whales for the First Time Using Satellite Transmitters

Dr. Helena Herr

Photo: Private

We already know where the fin whales of the southern hemisphere feed. Researchers, however, have not yet studied where they mate and breed. Now an...
21 February 2023|Excellence Strategy

“To me, IT security is incredibly exciting.”

Portrait Maya Herrscher

Photo: Private

The fast-track program at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence provides outstanding students with an opportunity to do a doctorate directly...
20 February 2023|in focus

Federal EU members of parliament visit Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld

Group picture of the STOA group

Photo: DESY

In the next few years, Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld will provide a leading international hub for natural sciences research. A group from the...
16 February 2023|Campus

"Welcome Aboard!": Prof. Dr. Eray Çaylı strengthens the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences

Prof. Dr. Eray Çaylı

Photo: private

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes many new researchers. Here, we present part of a series to introduce them and their areas of research.