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11 May 2023|Press release

CHE Ranking: Students Award Good Grades to Universität Hamburg

The Universität Hamburg Main Building

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schell

Every year, the CHE Centre for Higher Education evaluates about one-third of the subjects taught at German universities to compile a university ranking. Universität Hamburg rejoined the CHE ranking in 2022 after a 10-year moratorium.
11 May 2023|Excellence Strategy

Series on the Excellence Strategy: taking stock of UWA

Forschende betrachten ein historisches Dokument

Photo: UHH/C. Mahjoub

Since 2019, Universität Hamburg has been a designated University of Excellence. A year earlier, it received grants for 4 research clusters. What has been accomplished since then and how has funding been used? The Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts is an internationally unique...
10 May 2023|Research

Internet or linear: What Does the Future of TV Look Like?

Two children watching TV

Photo: Pixabay/Victoria Regen

Internet TV and linear TV—both are here to stay, according to Prof. Dr. Joan Kristin Bleicher. The TV expert has just published a new book on the history of internet TV and explains the strategies traditional TV is now pursuing, the dangers posed by AI, and what schools should do.
10 May 2023|Campus

“Welcome Aboard!” Prof. Dr. Maria Buchweitz to strengthen chemistry

Prof. Dr. Maria Buchweitz

Photo: Private

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Chemist Prof. Dr. Maria Buchweitz
8 May 2023|Press release

New German Research Foundation research training group How to Increase the Quality of Health Care?

A conversation with young researchers

Photo: HCHE / Claudia Höhne

For research on improving the quality of health care, the Hamburg Center for Health Economics at Universität Hamburg has created a comprehensive doctoral program. The German Research Foundation will fund this program in the amount of €6 million for the next 5 years.
8 May 2023|Campus

Diverse, Flexible, and University-Related Student Jobs

Robert Kurwahl, Alina Burmester, and Svea Mumme

Photo: Röttger (2)/Esfandiari

Whether a tutor, an employee in the administration, or a student research assistant—Universität Hamburg offers a lot of possibilities for gaining professional experience alongside your studies. Students support work processes in all areas and get a glimpse behind the scenes. Three of them take a...
8 May 2023|Research

Spitrobot: Observing Changes in Proteins Faster and More Easily

Friedjof Tellkamp (MPSD), Pedram Mehrabi (Univrersität Hamburg), and Eike C. Schulz (UKE)

Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSD

To develop new biotechnological applications, researchers need to understand changes in proteins. A group from different institutions in Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld has now developed the “spitrobot,” a new, significantly simpler procedure to observe these reactions. The research team has...
4 May 2023|Campus

“Welcome Aboard!”: Prof. Dr. Hewan Semon Marye will strengthen the Humanities

Prof. Dr. Hewan Semon Marye in Lalibela (Ethiopia)

Photo: Yirga Woldeyes

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes many new researchers. Here, we present part of a series to introduce them and their areas of research. This time: Prof. Dr. Hewan Semon Marye
3 May 2023|Excellence Strategy

Hamburg Vigoni Forum “Europe will be as Europe should be.”

S.E. Egils Levits

Photo: Claudia Höhne

Two hundred people from the areas of academia, politics, and civil society took part in Universität Hamburg’s Villa-Vigoni Forum: the Latvian president and alumnus of Universität Hamburg, Egils Levits, held the first Hamburg Address on the Future of Europe.
3 May 2023|Excellence Strategy

Taking Stock in the Excellence Strategy—CUI

Group photo CUI staff

Photo: UHH/Garten

Since 2019 Universität Hamburg has been a University of Excellence. A year earlier, 4 clusters of excellence received grants. What has been accomplished since then and how has the funding been used? The Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter talks about its previous research and...
2 May 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg and DESY invite you to Science on Tap on 11 May.

Symbolic image for Science on Tap (beer mats)

Photo: DESY

Are climate negotiations just hot air? Can artificial trees generate electricity? And can AI also really cook? At 8 pm on 11 May 2023, researchers from Universität Hamburg and DESY will be talking about their research at 50 bars and pubs.
2 May 2023|Campus

Cooperation to counter IT expert shortage and promote more practical curricula

Prof. Dr. Jan Recker and Christoph Diekmeyer

Photo: Tobias Mahlberg

Courses offered by the professorship for information systems and digital innovation now allow students of business administration to focus on topics related to digital innovations in trade and procurement. This is possible thanks to new cooperation with Edeka Digital, which is being headed Prof. Dr...
27 April 2023|Press release

New Endowed Professorship on Climate Change and Society at Universität Hamburg

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Ohme

How can we achieve greater climate protection in Germany? What are the biggest hurdles on the path to CO2 neutrality? These are the questions Prof. Dr. Stefan Aykut seeks to answer within the scope of his Mercator Professorship at Universität Hamburg. Aykut is set to take up his position on 1 May...
25 April 2023|Press release

New public lecture series on modern leadership strategies—hockey player Janne Müller-Wieland kicks off series

Janne Müller-Wieland giving a talk

Photo: Felix Stroh

Leadership should reflect a society’s diversity. As role models, they have the potential to challenge outmoded ideas of leadership. In the lecture series New Ways in Leadership hosted by the Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School) at Universität Hamburg, successful entrepreneurs...
24 April 2023|Excellence Strategy

Madagascar’s Biodiversity in Crisis

A river in Madagascar; people on a boat

Photo: Leo van Versendaal

The funding measure Hamburglobal PhD, which taps resources from the Excellence Strategy, enables doctoral researchers at Universität Hamburg to study abroad for several months. The geographer Leo van Versendaal is studying the impact of the corona pandemic on Madascar’s unique biodiversity.
24 April 2023|Campus

A different kind of soccer: The RoboCup 2023 event in Hamburg

Photo of robots and their developers at the last competition

Photo: Florian Vahl/Bit-Bots

If you never caught the spirit of soccer or felt alienated by the commercialization of professional soccer, this April holds an opportunity to (re)discover this sport. Mark your calender for some GORE robot soccer action in Hamburg from 27–30 April 2023, including University robots.
21 April 2023|Campus

EUGLOH: “Building a strong and well-connected alliance”

EUGLOH logo

Photo: EUGLOH

Since 2021, Universität Hamburg has been a member of the European University Alliance for Global Health, or “EUGLOH” for short. Viktoria Kurnosenko, EUGLOH team head and project coordinator at Universität Hamburg, talks in the interview below about how teachers and researchers can get involved and...
18 April 2023|Press release

Hamburg Address on the Future of Europe with the Latvian President Egils Levits

Portrait of the president of Latvia, Egils Levits, and event announcement

Photo: Universität Hamburg

What holds Europe together? This is the guiding question for the Hamburg Vigoni Forum on research, policy, and society as participants discuss the future of Europe. Universität Hamburg hosts the Forum as an international strategy conference in collaboration with the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, the...
17 April 2023|Press release

EUR 3.1 million awarded to research the meat industry and sustainability

Dr. Christin Bernhold

Photo: Private

What role does the meat industry play in social debates on sustainable modes of production? Dr. Christin Bernhold of the Department of Earth System Sciences at Universität Hamburg and her junior research group will examine precisely this over the next 5 years. Bernhold has been awarded EUR 3.1...
11 April 2023|In Focus

Universität Hamburg alumni and their career paths—Education

Dr. Meike Nieß, Marco Helms, Gloria Boateng, Ann-Kathrin Gomolzig, Prof. Dr. Tanja Salem

Photo: Studioline, BGW 2022, Miguel Ferraz, private, FH Potsdam/Andrea Hansen

Every year, thousands of students earn their degree here. Hundreds of doctorates are also awarded. And the career options available after that are many and diverse. In this series, alumni from various faculties talk about what they learned at Universität Hamburg and what advice they have for...