All news (2025)

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 February 2025|Exzellenzstrategie

Cluster of Excellence UWA: Video Insights Into Manuscript Research

Eine Doktorandin der Graduate School des Exzellenzclusters UWA

From the history of paper structures to 19th-century Peruvian music archives: Two doctoral students from the Graduate School of the Cluster of...

31 January 2025|Excellence Strategy

Stories from the jet age: how flying has changed the world

travelers check in at a new reception area at the Frankfurt Airport in 1974.

Photo: Fraport archive

One rejects flying while the other takes a private jet from Hamburg to Sylt. Lauren Stokes, professor of German history at Northwestern University in...

30 January 2025|Excellence Strategy

The Beginning of the Universe and the Einstein Telescope

Graphic shows construction of research site.

Photo: MPI for Gravitational Physics

Together with cooperation partners, researchers in the University of Hamburg Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe are developing and testing...

28 January 2025|Research

How Botanists Help Identify Origins of Victims of the Slave Trade

A map of strontium isotope ratios in Africa

Photo: Nature Communications

From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, more than 12.5 million Africans were trafficked to the New World as part of the transatlantic slave...

22 January 2025|Research

Success: 11 University of Hamburg Projects Get State Research Funding

Photo: University of Hamburg / von Wieding

From smart cities and history teaching to AI-based infection and autoimmune research: 16 research projects from a wide range of disciplines were...

20 January 2025|Research

Doing the Research: How Can School Teaching Effectively Provide Informatics Knowledge?

A teacher explains to pupils on their laptop the functionality of an application

Photo: Drazen Zigic via Getty Images

From 1 August 2025, informatics will be a required subject in all Hamburg secondary schools. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Sandra Schulz at the...

13 January 2025|Research

The Most Poisonous Spider in the World includes 3 Different Species

Stephanie Frances Loria, Dr. Danilo Harms, and Svea-Celina Frank

Photo: University of Hamburg/Esfandiari

The Sydney funnel web spider is one of the most poisonous spiders in the world. One international research team, which includes the Leibniz Institute...

13 January 2025|Excellence Strategy

Mysterious Damage: Valuable Manuscripts from Tunisia Analysed in Hamburg

Photo: CSMC

Numerous artefacts from one of the world’s most important collections of Islamic manuscripts are affected by an unusual form of degradation. In late...

10 January 2025|Campus

The University of Hamburg is offering 10 EXIST-Women scholarships.

Photo: UHH/Möller

With the funding program EXIST-Women, the University of Hamburg supports women entrepreneurs and independent businesswomen. In 2025, 10 scholarships...

9 January 2025|Internal

Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth is the new dean of the University of Hamburg Business School

Photo: University of Hamburg Business School

Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth began her tenure as the new dean of the University of Hamburg Business School on 1 January 2025. In this interview, the...

7 January 2025|Excellence Strategy

University of Hamburg Early Career Researchers Win International Competition

Photo: private

A team of doctoral researchers and postdocs in the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg have won the Airbus-BMW Group Quantum Computing...

6 January 2025|Internal

Cultural Shift at the University: Small Projects, Great Impact—Part 2

Staff working together using an interactive whiteboard

Photo: University of Hamburg/Esfandiari

How can we work together better and more positively and effectively communicate? From new formats to momentary adjustments—there are a host of ideas...