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3 February 2025|Exzellenzstrategie

Cluster of Excellence UWA: Video Insights Into Manuscript Research

Eine Doktorandin der Graduate School des Exzellenzclusters UWA
From the history of paper structures to 19th-century Peruvian music archives: Two doctoral students from the Graduate School of the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” show their exciting and interdisciplinary research in a new video.
30 January 2025|Excellence

The Beginning of the Universe and the Einstein Telescope

Graphic shows construction of research site.

Photo: MPI for Gravitational Physics

Together with cooperation partners, researchers in the University of Hamburg Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe are developing and testing components of the future Einstein Telescope. The large research system is a third-generation gravitational wave detector and is set to be built in Europe in...
22 January 2025|Research

Success: 11 University of Hamburg Projects Get State Research Funding

University of Hamburg’s Main Building

Photo: University of Hamburg / von Wieding

From smart cities and history teaching to AI-based infection and autoimmune research: 16 research projects from a wide range of disciplines were selected for the fourth round of state research funding. Eleven of them will be implemented at the University of Hamburg.
20 January 2025|Research

Doing the Research: How Can School Teaching Effectively Provide Informatics Knowledge?

A teacher explains to pupils on their laptop the functionality of an application

Photo: Drazen Zigic via Getty Images

From 1 August 2025, informatics will be a required subject in all Hamburg secondary schools. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Sandra Schulz at the Faculty of Education, Moritz Kreinsen and the Informatics Education subject group team are researching which methods can effectively provide school...
15 January 2025|Press release

Single-Celled Organisms with Super Powers: tiny organisms buffer fertilizers in the world’s oceans

Photo foraminifera

Photo: UHH/Glock

“Foraminifera” are found in all of the world’s oceans. Now, an international study headed by the University of Hamburg has shown that these tiny shell-wearing creatures absorb harmful phosphates from the water to an extent previously unknown. The article was published in the journal Nature.
13 January 2025|Exzellenzstrategie

Mysterious Damage: Valuable Manuscripts from Tunisia Analysed in Hamburg

Foto betroffenes Manuskript

Photo: CSMC

Numerous artefacts from one of the world’s most important collections of Islamic manuscripts are affected by an unusual form of degradation. In late 2024, a delegation from Tunisia brought 15 objects to Hamburg and analysed them together with the experts of the Artefact Lab at the Centre for the...
13 January 2025|Research

The Most Poisonous Spider in the World includes 3 Different Species

Stephanie Frances Loria, Dr. Danilo Harms, and Svea-Celina Frank

Photo: University of Hamburg/Esfandiari

The Sydney funnel web spider is one of the most poisonous spiders in the world. One international research team, which includes the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change and the University of Hamburg, has now found out that this spider is a complex of 3 species that includes a...
10 January 2025|Campus

The University of Hamburg is offering 10 EXIST-Women scholarships.

Two women having a conversation

Photo: UHH/Möller

With the funding program EXIST-Women, the University of Hamburg supports women entrepreneurs and independent businesswomen. In 2025, 10 scholarships will be awarded again to help women in all subjects as they foster and realize their entrepreneurial dreams. Applications for the first round can be...
9 January 2025|Internal

Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth is the new dean of the University of Hamburg Business School

Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth

Photo: University of Hamburg Business School

Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth began her tenure as the new dean of the University of Hamburg Business School on 1 January 2025. In this interview, the professor of risk management and insurance shares her goals, her vision for the faculty, and how she plans to incorporate her international experience in...
7 January 2025|Press release

Wir wollen’s wissen— The University Visits Schools

High school students listening to a researcher

Photo: University of Hamburg

In the interactive teaching format Wir wollen’s wissen, University of Hamburg researchers trade the lecture hall for the classroom and present their research to Hamburg’s high school students. The next round is taking place at the end of January and talks can still be booked.
7 January 2025|Excellence

University of Hamburg Early Career Researchers Win International Competition

Participants in Silicon Valley

Photo: private

A team of doctoral researchers and postdocs in the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg have won the Airbus-BMW Group Quantum Computing Challenge in one of 5 categories. The international competition is organized by Airbus, BMW, and Amazon in cooperation with the digital magazine The...
6 January 2025|Internal

Cultural Shift at the University: Small Projects, Great Impact—Part 2

Staff working together using an interactive whiteboard

Photo: University of Hamburg/Esfandiari

How can we work together better and more positively and effectively communicate? From new formats to momentary adjustments—there are a host of ideas for greater scientific exchange and working together successfully. This series present inspiring initiatives.