Interviews

20 December 2016|Press release

Accurate mapping of megacity illegal growth— a promising new method

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For the first time, data gathered via satellite—so-called remote sensing—and social data collected through human sensing have been linked scientifically with improved results. Miguel Rodriguez Lopez from Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) introduced this...

13 December 2016|Pressemitteilung

A total of about €4 million for University research projects

Photo: European Research Council

The European Research Council (ERC) has now included two research projects at Universität Hamburg in his ERC Consolidator Grant funding line: "Problems in Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics (PEPCo)" headed by Prof. Mathias Schacht (PhD) in the Department of Mathematics and "Slow Motion...

1 December 2016|Pressemitteilung

Award ceremony for the 2016 Karl H. Ditze Prize for outstanding young researchers

Photo: Karl H. Ditze-Stiftung

This years the Karl H. Ditze Foundation will award the Karl H. Ditze Prize, worth 13,000 euros, for the fifteenth time for outstanding doctoral dissertations in the humanities and education at Universität Hamburg.

28 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

500 students from all over the world debate in the 18th Hamburg Model United Nations

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Seventy nationalities from over fifty countries: more than 500 students from all over the world are set to debate in the 18th Hamburg Model United Nations (HamMUN) from 1 to 4 December 2016 at Universität Hamburg. Students simulate political bodies such as the UN Security Council, the International...

25 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

Eminent visitors honor Chinese-German cooperation

Eminent visitors at Universität Hamburg: On the occasion of the closing event of the German-Chinese youth exchange year, the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, Liu Yandong, and German Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, spoke on Thursday, 24 November, in the Main...

24 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

Majority for SPD, voter potential for AfD

In the fall of 2016, the research lab in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences conducted its regular Hamburg-BUS survey of Hamburg citizens in order to analyze potential voting patterns and political views, among other things. Under the aegis of the political scientist Prof. Dr...

23 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

100th anniversary of Insurance Law Seminar

This year the Insurance Law Seminar in the Faculty of Law at Universität Hamburg and the Versicherungswissenschaftliche Verein in Hamburg e. V. celebrate their 100th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the Faculty invites the public to festivities on Friday, 2 December 2016 from 9 am to 2 pm to the...

22 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

2.5 million for alliance project on sustainability at higher education institutions

Writing excerpt on paper: "University for a Sustainable Future"

Photo: UHH/Schell

The Center for a Sustainable University (KNU) at Universität Hamburg coordinates the alliance project on developing, networking, and reporting on sustainability at higher educational institutions (HOCHN), which has just been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Eleven...

17 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

A beer with Hamburg's researchers

Photo: SFB 676

In 46 pubs across Hamburg, the city's researchers performed today (17 November) in the event "Wissen vom Fass", entertaining audiences with talks on their current research.

15 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

Prof. Dr. Günter Huber selected for Russian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr. Günter Huber, Institute of Laser Physics

Photo: UHH/Institut für Laserphysik

Prof. Dr. Günter Huber from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg has been selected as a foreign member at this year's meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. With this distinction, the Academy honors Professor Huber's pioneering work in the field of applied laser physics...

7 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

Second round of "Wissen vom Fass"

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The big bang, Higgs, schnaps, and snails—this fall Hamburg's researchers will once again venture out from their labs and offices and into the pubs and bars of the Hanseatic city.

4 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

Invitation to the media: expert forum at Universität Hamburg on the imminent US election

Photo: von Dbenbenn, Zscout370, Jacobolus, Indolences, Technion. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

As soon as the result of the British 'Brexit' was known, Google experienced a momentous increase in the number of searches relating to 'Brexit' and 'consequences'—searches that possibly came too late. Now that the countdown to the US election has begun, Universität Hamburg has set up an expert forum...

2 November 2016|Pressemitteilung

Wahnsinn trifft Methode: A talkshow with an unusual topic

Photo: UHH/Sukhina/Wohlfahrt

Usually, the word "ass" is used negatively—and often unjustly. So it is bound to be interesting when the president of Universität Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Lenzen, joings NDR moderator Julia-Niharika Sen to discuss our derriere, one episode in the three part series "Himmel, Arsch und Zwirn" ("Heaven, Ass...

19 October 2016|Pressemitteilung

Reform of EU emissions trading is counterproductive

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Last year the Parliament of the European Union (EU) sharpened one of the most important instruments in the fight against climate change by deciding to reform the Emissions Trading System (ETS). Two researchers at Universität Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino and Maximilian Willner from the...

17 October 2016|Pressemitteilung

Event series on literature and theology

Sybolic image with book for the lecture series "Religion and Literature: So Open is the World!"

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A weekly series of readings and discussions with distinguished authors starts on 26 October 2016 at Universität Hamburg. Under the motto "So open is the world!", participants will discuss ways in which contemporary literature is opening itself up once more to questions of religion. All interested...

5 October 2016|Pressemitteilung

General Lecture Series commences in October

Excerpt from the title page of the program brochure

Photo: UHH/AWW

This winter semester Universität Hamburg will once again put on a comprehensive program of public lectures for all members of the public. The thematically organized General Lecture Series steers you through current questions in science, research, and society discussed in almost 400 lectures. Most of...

28 September 2016|Pressemitteilung

1.4 million euros for the FOOD PROFILING project at Universität Hamburg

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What are we eating and where does it come from? In the era of global trade and increasingly complex food production processes, this question is becoming more and more difficult to answer. A research team at Universität Hamburg will receive 1.4 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Food and...

23 September 2016|Pressemitteilung

Open house at the Hamburg Observatory

1-Meter-Spiegelteleskop der Hamburger Sternwarte

Photo: UHH/Baumann

Here's your chance to see the stars and galaxies through a giant telescope, find out everything about life on other planets, or experiment with infra-red light! Young and old alike can indulge their curiosity and discover outer space with researchers at the observatory on Saturday, 1 October 2016.

13 September 2016|Pressemitteilung

Open water around the North Pole: Arctic Ocean ice receding

Measuring ice thickness with an airplane

Photo: E. Horvath/AWI

In September the ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an area of just under 4.1 million square kilometers. This is the second smallest area measured since satellite recording commenced. Only in the record negative year of 2012 did scientists measure less ice (3.4 million square kilometers). "This is a...

9 September 2016|Press release

Hamburger Forscher analysieren Angriffe von Tieren auf Menschen in Nepal

"Human-wildlife conflicts" often arise where the habitats and interests of human beings and wild animals meet. These lead to a decline in support for environmental and animal protection measures, which is particularly dangerous in areas where animals facing extinction live. A research team from the...