Interviews

17 December 2018|Pressemitteilung

National funding for large core facilities— €900,000 for innovative light microscope

Photo: CSSB

Researchers at Universität Hamburg have successfully applied for funding in the large core facilities initiative “Neuartige, experimentelle Lichtmikroscope für die Forschung” spearheaded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This means €900,000 for an innovative light microscope. The microscope...

11 December 2018|Research

Onora O’Neill speaks at the Universität Hamburg

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Onora O'Neill is one of the world’s most distinguished contemporary moral philosophers. On December 18 she will give a lecture at the Universität Hamburg on “Rethinking the Ethics of Communication”.

10 December 2018|Pressemitteilung

€3.6 million for the HALOS life sciences project

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The European Territorial Cooperation INTERREG has awarded €3.6 million to the German-Scandinavian research project “Hanseatic League of Science (HALOS).” In addition to Universität Hamburg, academic and corporate partners from German, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are taking part in HALOS.

7 December 2018|Pressemitteilung

ERC Consolidator Grant for Hamburg physicist

Photo: Carina Häusler

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a €2 million Consolidator Grant to Prof. Dr. Dorota Koziej from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg. In her project “A Platform to LINk Between CHemistry and PhysIcs of Colloidal Nanomaterials (LINCHPIN)”, Koziej will make radiation...

15 November 2018|Pressemitteilung

Our stellar neighbourhood expands

Artistic illustration of a sunset on Barnard's star b

Photo: ESO/Martin Kornmesser

Astronomers from the Observatory of the University of Hamburg were involved in the discovery of a new planet. As part of an international research team led by the Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (ICE, CSIC), they have found a planet in orbit of Barnard's star. Barnard's star is a so-called red dwarf...

25 October 2018|Pressemitteilung

The formation of large meteorite craters is unraveled

Photo: UHH/MIN/Fuchs

About 66 million years ago, a meteorite hit the Earth of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now Mexico. This event triggered a mass extinction that eradicated approximately 75 percent of all species and ended the era of dinosaurs. Like Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riller of the Institute of Geology of the...

23 October 2018|Press release

70.000 historische astronomische Fotoplatten digitalisiert

Die Sternwarte der Universität Hamburg hat einen astronomischen Schatz gehoben: In Kooperation mit dem Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik in Potsdam (AIP), der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg und der Universität Tartu in Estland haben Projektleiter Dr. Detlef Groote und sein Team insgesamt 70.000...

23 October 2018|Pressemitteilung

6.1 million € for the investigation of signalling molecules in plants

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Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr from the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg successfully acquired an ERC Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) this year. In the project “Plant Mobile RNAs: Function, Transport and Features” (PLAMORF) Prof. Kehr will spend six years together with Dr...

12 October 2018|Pressemitteilung

Disrupting crystalline order to restore superfluidity

Photo: UHH/Mathey group

When we put water in a freezer, water molecules crystallize and form ice. This change from one phase of matter to another is called a phase transition. While this transition, and countless others that occur in nature, typically takes place at the same fixed conditions, such as the freezing point...

27 September 2018|Pressemitteilung

Four out of four! Outstanding success for Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Schell

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat, WR), and the Joint Science Conference in Bonn have just announced that Universität Hamburg has been granted 4 clusters of excellence. An outstanding success for the...

12 September 2018|In focus

Unique International Joint PhD Agreement

Photo: UHH/Wohlfahrt

Universität Hamburg has just signed a trilateral joint PhD agreement with Macquarie University (MQ) from Sydney, Australia, and Fudan University (FU) from Shanghai in China. This is the first agreement of its kind to be signed with a Chinese university. Universität Hamburg has been running a...

29 August 2018|Research

Bacteria—nature’s trash collector for plastics?

Photo: UHH/MIN/Latos

Could microorganisms devour and rid the world of microplastics? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit and his team in the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg are trying to find out.

14 August 2018|Press release

Europas größte politikwissenschaftliche Konferenz tagt an der Universität Hamburg

Vom 23. bis 26. August 2018 findet die „General Conference“ des „European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)“ zum ersten Mal in Hamburg statt. Die General Conference des ECPR ist die größte politikwissenschaftliche Fachkonferenz in Europa. Rund 2.500 Teilnehmende werden an der Universität...

31 July 2018|Pressemitteilung

ERC Starting Grant for Hamburg physicist

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Dr. Christof Weitenberg, scientist at the Institute of Laser Physics, Hamburg, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth around 1.5 million euros by the European Research Council. In a new research project entitled “Engineering and Exploring Anyonic Quantum Gases,” ANYON for short, he plans to...

4 July 2018|Pressemitteilung

New DFG Center for Advanced Studies to research sustainability

DFG Center for Advanced Studies to look at how modern societies change when they follow different sustainability goals.

Photo: Anna Jiménez Calaf

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has granted funding for a new Center for Advanced Study at Universität Hamburg entitled The Futures of Sustainability: Modernization, Transformation, Control. Researchers want to understand how modern societies change when they...

4 July 2018|Pressemitteilung

Hamburg scientists combine experimental expertise

Ultracold atoms are ionized by an ultrashort laser pulse. Because the atomic motion is almost stopped at temperatures of 100 nK, losses due to ionization can be directly imaged and measured.

Photo: UHH/Wessels

Two separate research fields have been united in Hamburg for the very first time. Ultrashort laser pulses enable us to observe and manipulate matter on very short time scales, whereas ultracold atoms permit experiments with high precision and controllability. In the cluster of excellence “The...

3 July 2018|Research

How extremes can help: improved accuracy for 10-year forecasts

Photo: CC3.0 B.Abis, MPI-M

Leonard Borchert’s goal is to make weather forecasts for the next 10 years more accurate. To do so, he has observed the North Atlantic, which strongly influences the weather in Europe. Borchert’s findings have now been published in the Journal of Climate. As a PhD candidate at CEN, he also knows...

26 June 2018|Pressemitteilung

35 years of marine conservation: the lack of a strategy increases the need for protected areas

Photo: UHH/CEN/K. Jantke

Although more than 16 percent of all national waters are now protected, many ecoregions and countries are not included. The current reserve system is just as expensive as it is inefficient, as Dr. Kerstin Jantke and her team show in a study recently released by Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth...

21 June 2018|Campus

From “Hopeless” to Harvard

Photo: UHH/Wendt

Poor grades in elementary school almost put an early end to this young man’s pursuits. Now Mahmut Yüksel is working towards a double degree in medicine and informatics at Universität Hamburg and off to earn a medical doctorate at Harvard University.

7 June 2018|Campus

From Hamburg to the Horizon: Alexander Gerst returns to command the ISS

Alexander Gerst wearing Universität Hamburg hoody

Photo: UHH/CEN/Ausserhofer

Alexander Gerst (42) is not only the most famous astronaut from the Federal Republic of Germany, and, from October, the first German commander of the International Space Station (ISS), but also a Universität Hamburg graduate. The Doctor of Geophysics is due to arrive at the ISS with his team...