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3 April 2025|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Katharina Förster strengthens the Department of Psychology.

Prof. Dr. Katharina Förster

Photo: Picture People

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: psychologist and psychotherapist Prof. Dr. Katharina Förster.
1 April 2025|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen strengthens the Humanities.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: music psychologist Prof. Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen
17 March 2025|Research

Research project: How Can We Make Climate Protection Financing Sustainable?

Two hands holding a small plant growing from a pile of coins

Photo: pexels/Akil Mazumder

For a new project, a University of Hamburg research team will connect with the financial sector to develop innovative financing and investment strategies in tackling the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. As part of a research alliance with the University of Kassel project receives...
11 March 2025|Research

Doing the Research series: Creating AI to Reflect Cultural Diversity

Ai-generated images of a French person—on the left using German as prompt language, on the right Japanese.

Photo: University of Hamburg

More and more companies and private individuals are using generative AI such as ChatGPT or Dall-E. However, the data that forms the basis for the results being generated do not reflect the world’s entire population equally. Prof. Dr. Anne Lauscher and Carolin Holtermann (University of Hamburg...
26 February 2025|Research

New Database Helps Sports Teachers Find Digital Tools

Spodigi logo

Photo: Spodigi

The Spodigi-Tools database should make it easier for sports teachers to use digital tools in their classes. The database was developed by researchers at the Universities of Hamburg and Wuppertal. In the upcoming months, it will undergo live testing and evaluation so that teachers can make the best...
21 February 2025|Research

“Gender-Equitable Perspectives in Theological Textbooks Cannot Be Assumed”

Catharina Regina Baroness of Greiffenberg

Photo: University of Hamburg / Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel: Portr. II 1988.3

Feminist and diversity-oriented research approaches are firmly anchored in many disciplines. PD Dr. Frank A. Kurzmann from the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Hamburg is investigating how to also implement them in theology. Among other things, he organized a workshop on the...
6 February 2025|Research

The Media and Polarization in Europe

Fuelt2theFire logo, which shows a newspaper with facing pages in different colors and two people screaming at each other.

Photo: Meyer/Pröschel

Even established democracies such as Germany are becoming increasingly polarized and endangered by the conflicts polarization creates. The role of the media in this process is the focus of 2 research projects being conducted by the Professorship for Climate Communication at the Faculty of Business...
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 trade. Where the enslaved people came from and what transportion they had to endure in Africa is still largely unknown. In an international project...
22 January 2025|Research

Success: 11 University of Hamburg Projects Get State Research Funding

University of Hamburg’s Main Building

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 selected for the fourth round of state research funding. Eleven of them will be implemented at the University of Hamburg.
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 Faculty of Education, Moritz Kreinsen and the Informatics Education subject group team are researching which methods can effectively provide school...
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 for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change and the University of Hamburg, has now found out that this spider is a complex of 3 species that includes a...