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22 April 2021|Press release

COVID-19 Study: Over Half of German Respondents in Favor of Removing Vaccine Priority Groups

A strong preference for the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine

Photo: Pixabay

Although the German public has been behind the containment measures since the coronavirus pandemic began over a year ago, an about-face is becoming apparent. A representative survey conducted by the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE) at Universität Hamburg has found that almost every second...
22 April 2021|Campus

Online Meeting: Universities Agree to Expand Collaboration

The two universities met on Zoom

Photo: Universität Hamburg

Kyoto University has been one of Universität Hamburg’s strategic partners since July 2020. In an online meeting, the universities have now decided to hold a workshop in the fall, to develop joint perspectives on university development and encourage academic exchange.
20 April 2021|Excellence Strategy

Global Challenges, Local Research Approaches

Portraits Schröder/Singer

Photo: Universität Hamburg / private / private

From April 2021, 17 researchers at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence will receive funding from the Ideas and Venture Fund. The researchers will use this to prepare larger third-party-funded projects suited to one of the University’s profile initiatives or emerging fields. In total, the...
2 April 2021|Research

X-ray screening: promising candidates for COVID drugs

Visualisierung des Coronavirus

Photo: DESY/SciComLab

An international team of researchers, which on behalf of Universität Hamburg is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Betzel and Prof. Dr. Arwen Pearson, has identified several candidates for drugs against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using DESY´s X-ray lightsource PETRA III. In addition, a new...
26 March 2021|

The health of the Baltic Sea is below standard – but there’s hope for improvement

Baltic Health Index

Photo: Baltic Health Index Project & OpenStreetMap contributors

An international research team with participation of Universität Hamburg has developed an index that can be used to assess the condition of the Baltic Sea. But how does this "Baltic Health Index" (BHI) work? And which grade does the Baltic Sea currently achieve?
19 March 2021|Excellence Strategy

“There is more money in illegal wildlife than in the drug trade.”

Körbe aus Gürteltierpanzern

Photo: UHH/Ohme

Universität Hamburg is using the Transfer@UHH fund to support 6 new research projects, including a project at the Center of Natural History (CeNak) on wildlife and the transmission of infection from animals to humans. The project is being coordinated by the evolutionary biologist Prof. Dr. Matthias...
15 March 2021|Excellence Strategy

How Digitalization Changes Written Language

Double portrait Prof. Dr. Jannis Androutsopoulos and Prof. Dr. Heike Zinsmeister

Photo: private collection/UHH

Effective immediately, Universität Hamburg is funding 5 research projects as part of the Next Generation Partnerships—Thematic Networks program. The funding is earmarked for the preparation of long-term external funding projects. One of the projects focuses on changes in written language as a result...
11 March 2021|Press release

Research vessel SONNE: An outstanding expedition

SONNE research vessel on the high seas

Photo: M. Hartig / Meyer Werft

On 19 March, the SONNE will depart on one of its longest expeditions to date. In the southern Atlantic, it will secure the measuring devices of various research institutions. Due to the pandemic, maintenance of these devices could not be carried out last year and now a gigantic loss of data and...
10 March 2021|Press release

Founding Team Develops Inclusive Mathematics App

The neurodactics team (from left): Jonas Vierth, Torben Rieckmann, and Christopher Hof

Photo: Hilko Aikens / Startup Dock

Providing first and second graders with digital support for mental arithmetic and understanding mathematical sets—for this endeavor, Torben Rieckmann, Christopher Hof, and Jonas Vierth have been awarded the EXIST Business Start-up Grant and will also receive support from Universität Hamburg. The...
9 March 2021|Press release

KWiK-study: Schools are on a good track amidst the coronavirus crisis

Logo of the KWiK-study

Photo: KWiK

In the study “Continuity and Change of Schools in Times of Crisis” (Kontinuität und Wandel der Schule in Krisenzeiten – KWiK), school principals were asked how they are mastering the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Initial results from the study paint a positive picture but reveal the...
26 February 2021|Excellence Strategy

Seminar on desk research in Studium Generale: Of pencils and Post-Its

The seminar leader lying on his desk

Photo: S. Porombka

This semester, visiting scholar Prof. Dr. Stephan Porombka and Julian Farny from the Berlin University of the Arts are enriching the subject range at Universität Hamburg with a very unusual seminar: together with their students, they are examining their desks.
23 February 2021|Research

EU funding for Future and Emerging Technologies

Collage of rock images and industrial plant

Photo: pixabay/sonnenbrunnen/SD-Pictures

The European Union’s FET Open program funds research projects on promising technologies. In the last round, 2 projects that included teams from Universität Hamburg were also successful.
22 February 2021|Campus

Study on working conditions and career paths

Studentin im Homeoffice

Photo: UHH/Lutsch

Researchers have conducted a nationwide study to gather comprehensive data on working and living conditions for doctoral candidates and doctoral graduates. Over 1,000 doctoral candidates at Universität Hamburg participated in 2019.Doctoral candidates, who joined Universität Hamburg after 1st...
19 February 2021|Excellence Strategy

Sky Map Shows Over 25,000 Black Holes

Sky map simplified view

Photo: Universität Hamburg / de Gapserin

An international team of astronomers headed by Junior Professor Dr. Francesco de Gasperin, a researcher at the Hamburg Observatory and member of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at Universität Hamburg, has created the largest and clearest sky map in ultralow radio frequency. The map was...
18 February 2021|Press release

Study released on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus has led to a worldwide crisis for over a year. In a new study, nanoscientist Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger illuminates the origins of the virus. His findings conclude there are a number of quality sources indicating a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the...
16 February 2021|Excellence

"Developing a Modern, Digital Vision for Universität Hamburg"

Sebastian Gerling, CDO at Universität Hamburg

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Hansen

With financing through the second funding line of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments, Universität Hamburg appointed its first chief digital officer (CDO) at the beginning of 2021. In his interview, Dr. Sebastian Gerling talks about his tasks, objectives, and specific areas...
12 February 2021|Excellence Strategy

“The Majority of the Projects Are Well Under Way”

Portrait Ariane Neumann

Photo: UHH/Saint Pere

Universität Hamburg applied to the second funding line of the Excellence Competition of the Federal and State Governments for 24 projects. It now has more than €60 million available to implement these projects. Dr. Ariane Neumann, head of Department 1: University Strategy, explains how the ExStra...
9 February 2021|Excellence Strategy

Co-Research Space in Rotherbaum

Portrait Dietmar von der Pfordten

Photo: C. Höhne

The Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study (HIAS), which opened at the end of 2020, funds researchers and artists living and working over multiple months in Hamburg. Sociologist Sophia Prinz and philosopher Dietmar von der Pfordten are among the first recipients. Their fellowships are financed by...
8 February 2021|Press release

COVID-19 study: Information is Key to Vaccination Willingness

Syringe with vaccine against corona

Photo: Pixabay

In Germany, the willingness to receive a vaccination has risen slightly from 57 to 62 percent since November. Forty-eight percent of those would would like to be vaccinated have no preference with regard to vaccine. A representative survey conducted by the Hamburg Center for Health Economics (HCHE)...
27 January 2021|Press release

“Living Fossil” in the Namib Has Different Subspecies

Specimens of the Weltwitschia mirabilis can live over 1,000 years.

Photo: UHH/Jürgens

A family of Welwitschia already inhabited Earth 112 million years ago. A research team in the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg has now used short DNA sequences to discover that the only still-living species of Weltwitschia mirabilis has different subspecies. The findings were published...