Interviews

4 September 2023|Press release

ERC Consolidator Grant: Research project Morethanmoney to receive €1.5 million

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What incentives outside of remuneration motivate people to work? Are these different for men and for women? Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich from Universität Hamburg is addressing these and other questions in a new research project. Her work has been granted a Consolidator Grant from the European Research...

31 August 2023|Research

How Companies Can Reduce Printing Paper Copies Using Digital Tools

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The amount of paper used for printing is an important starting point for companies looking to be more sustainable. But how can staff be motivated to print out fewer documents? This is the subject of a study by Prof. Dr. Jan Recker from the Faculty of Business Administration, published in the journal...

29 August 2023|Internal:

Universität Hamburg Introducing Multi-Factor Authentication

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Universities are also targets for hackers. Secure passwords are not enough to prevent cyberattacks. To increase device and data security, Universität Hamburg is introducing multi-factor authentication step-by-step for all University members.

24 August 2023|Campus

Vocational training at Universität Hamburg: “We get the time we need here to study.”

Photo: Lihuén Eder in the Loki Schmidt Garden greenhouse

Diverse and practical—at Universität Hamburg, you can also pursue vocational training in many fields. Take, for example, the Loki Schmidt Garden, where every year gardeners are trained to handle native and exotic plants. Lihuén Eder is one of those gardeners and provides insight into his work.

23 August 2023|Press release

New Emmy Noether Research Group Studies Supermassive Black Holes

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The German Research Foundation (DFG) has admitted the astrophysicist Dr. Jan-Torge Schindler to the Emmy Noether Programme. His new independent junior research group at Universität Hamburg examines the emergence and early development of supermassive black holes in the first 2 billion years of our...

23 August 2023|Press release

€80,000 for Research Project on Innovative Production of Biochar

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Biochar has great potential in the fight against climate change, especially in agriculture. Dr. Maria-Elena Vorrath from the Department of Earth System Sciences at Universität Hamburg wants to develop and test a new production process. To do this, she will receive €80,000 from the Klaus Tschira...

23 August 2023|Campus

On the idea of human happiness: Prof. Dr. Jozef Müller strengthens the humanities.

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Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Philosopher Prof. Dr. Jozef Müller.

22 August 2023|Press release

Funding for Social Innovations Research Team

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Social innovations like multigenerational houses or crowdfunding have a long-term impact on living in society. But how can they be specifically encouraged at universities? That is the subject of a new research project at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences and the Faculty of...

22 August 2023|Campus

Welcome aboard!: Prof. Dr. Nicole strengthens the humanities.

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Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Assyriologist and philologist Prof. Dr. Nicole Brisch.

17 August 2023|Press release

Pairing of electrons in artificial atoms discovered

3D view of some of the structures built atom-by-atom from silver

Photo: Lucas Schneider

Researchers from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg, observed a quantum state that was theoretically predicted more than 50 years ago by Japanese theoreticians but so far eluded detection. By tailoring an artificial atom on the surface of a superconductor, the researchers succeeded in...

16 August 2023|Research

Human or machine—who do customers order more from?

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Whether when shopping or in the service sector, customers are increasingly coming into contact with automated processes first rather than with employees. In a project based on fast-food restaurants, Prof. Dr. Karen Gedenk at the Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School)—along with...

15 August 2023|Press release

Europe’s biggest particle physics conference at Universität Hamburg with many public events

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Universität Hamburg, together with the DESY research center are hosting this year’s Conference for High Energy Physics of the European Physical Society (EPS-HEP). The conference’s public program begins on 20 August, with the conference itself beginning one day later. Public talks, exhibitions, and a...

9 August 2023|Excellence Strategy

Predicting Premature Births

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Professor of medicine Petra Arck from Universität Hamburg is researching whether the blood of pregnant women gives clues to possible premature birth, thanks to funding through the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments.

8 August 2023|Press release

Combating Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria through High-Resolution Structural Imaging

Antibiotic tetracycline (blue) and its interactions with ribosomal rRNA

Photo: Universität Hamburg and Paternoga

A European research team led by the Department of Chemistry at Universität Hamburg presents a study showing high-resolution structures of 17 distinct antibiotic ribosomal compounds. The knowledge could pave the way for the development of new antibiotics to combat multidrug-resistant bacteria. The...

7 August 2023|Research

Doing the Research: “Networked thinking must be learned and promoted”

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Many current problems, such as climate change, are very complex. In school, however, these topics are taught separately from the perspective of the respective subject. The MINT4all project wants to bring the various subject perspectives together. PD Dr. habil. Katrin Vorhölter and Prof. Dr. Sandra...

7 August 2023|Campus

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Benno Fladvad joins the MIN Faculty

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Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. And this time, we talk to geographer and peace researcher Prof. Dr. Benno Fladvad, who is investigating the link between climate change and conflict.

1 August 2023|Excellence Strategy

How come so many children die after wars and why do people who are sick go to work?

Double portrait Prof. Wild and Prof. Schaub

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Every year, researchers at Universität Hamburg can apply for funding from the Ideas and Venture Fund to prepare for a large externally funded project. Below, we introduce 2 of the 14 projects currently underway.

27 July 2023|Excellence Strategy

Funding for research into inflation and vaccine willingness

Photo of an economic graph on a computer monitor

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A new funding line is allowing Universität Hamburg researchers to develop interdisciplinary research at the interface between digital methods and specialist knowledge. The first round provides funding for 6 cross-disciplinary labs (CDLs).

26 July 2023|Research

Doing the Research: How We Learn Fear

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Many pathological fears are learned according to well-known mechanisms. Do these mechanisms apply when fear is not based on real experiences but only on imagined scenarios? And can that explain delusions? These are the questions Prof. Dr. Tania Lincoln and her team from the Institute of Psychology...

25 July 2023|Press release

€750,000 for Research on Silent Film Music

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In silent movies the actors were, of course, silent, but the cinema itself was anything but. The films were accompanied by specially gathered and composed music. However, only few of the scores have thus far garnered interest. Musicologist Prof. Dr. Oliver Huck would like to study these forms of...

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