Social Sciences

• Institute of Political Science
• Center for Globalization and Global Governance (CGG)
• Center for Research on the Causes of War
• Research Center for Media and Politics
• Institute of Sociology
• Centre for Globalisation and Governance (CGG)
• Center for Rehabilition and Prevention Research
• Institute of Criminological Social Research
• Institute of Journalism and Communications

Socioeconomics

• CIS - Center for International Studies
• EU-Asia-Link
• Key Research Area Financing/Investments
• Time Lab
• IWI - Institute of Information Systems
• ZÖSS - Center for Economic and Sociological Studies
• Panel on Biographies and Life Careers of Citizens of Hamburg: The Children of the Educational Expansion Era
• Research Center for Human Resources (ZfP)

(3) FACULTY OF MEDICINE

• Center for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
• Department of Anaesthesiology
• Department of Intensive Care
• Center for Obstretics and Paediatrics
• Department of Obstretics and Fetal Medicine
• Department of Paediatrics
• Department of Paediatric Haemotolgy and Oncoloy
• Department and Clinic of Paediatric Surgery
• Department of Psychosomatics in Children and Adolescents
• Department of Human Genetics
• Center for Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Department of General and Interventional Cardiology
  • Department of Cardiology, Electrophysiology
  • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Paediatric Cardiology/Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
  • Paediatric Cardiology/Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
• Center for Internal Medicine
  • Department of Internal Medicine
  • Center for Internal Medicine
  • Department of Internal Medicine III and Clinics (Nephrology/Rheumatology,Kidney Transplantation, Endocrinology/Diabetology Section)
  • Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy
  • Dermatology and Venereology Department and Clinic
• Center for Clincial Neurosciences
  • Department of Neurology
  • Department of Neurological Surgery
  • Ears, Nose and Throat Department and Clinic
  • Department of Voice, Speech and Hearing Disorders
  • Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Nordwestdeutshce Kieferklinik)
  • Spine Center
• Center for Oncology
  • Department of Internal Medicine II and Clinic (Oncology Center)
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit
  • Department of Radiotherapy and Radio-Oncology
  • Department of Nuclear Medicine
• Center for Surgical Sciences
  • General, Visceral and Thoracic Department and Clinic
  • Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Department of Orthopaedics
  • Department of Urology
  • Gynecology Department and Clinic
• Center for Psychosocial Medicine
  • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • Institute for Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry
  • Department of Medical Psychology
  • Department of Primary Medical Care
  • Department of History and Ethics of Medicine
  • Department of Medical Sociology
  • Occupational Medicine
• Center for Dental and Oral Medicine (ZMK)
  • Department of Orthodontics
  • Department of Dental Prothetics
  • Department of Restorative and Preventive Dentistry
  • Department of Radiology
• Center for Diagnostic
  • Department of Clinical Chemistry/Central Laboratories
  • Department of Transfusion Medicine
  • Department of Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene
  • Department of Immunology
  • Department of Pathology
  • Department of Neuropathology
  • Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology
  • Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Department and Clinic
  • Interdisciplinary Endoscopy Department and Clinic
  • Department of Legal Medicine
• Center for Experimental Medicine
  • Department of Anatomy 1: Cellular Neurobiology
  • Department of Anatomy II: Experimental Morphology
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1: Cellular Signal Transduction
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II: Molecular Cell Biology
  • Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology
  • Department of Pharmacology for Pharmacists
  • Department of Vegetative Physiology and Pathophysiology
  • Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology
  • Department of Biometry and Epidemiology
  • Department of Medical Informatics
  • Department of Tumor Biology
  • Department of Systems Neuroscience
• Center for Molecular Neurobiology (ZMNH)
  • Institute for Neural Signal Transduction
  • Institut für Entwicklungsneurobiologie
  • Institute for the Biosynthesis of Neural Structures
  • Center for Molecular Neurobiology
  • Department of Cell Biology and Clinical Neurobiology
• Health Care Center
• Brustzentrum
• German Center for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence
• University Cancer Center Hamburg UCCH

(4) FACULTY OF EDUCATION, PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENCE OF HUMAN MOVEMENT

Education

• Section 1 - General, Cross-cultural and International Comparative Education
  • Basic Educational Research
  • Education and Transformation Research
  • Media Teaching and Aesthetic Education
  • International and Cross-cultural Comparative Education
  • Cross-cultural School Pupils Seminar [iks]
  • Cross-cultural Studies
  • BLK Project FörMig
  • Evaluation of Educational Systems
• Section 2 - School, Social and Special Needs Education and Pedagogical Psychology
  • School Education and Research
  • Elementary and Primary Levels
  • Psychology in Education and School Instruction
  • Social Education
  • Special Education
• Section 3 - Professional Training and Life-long Learning
  • Vocational Education
  • Teaching Business Studies
  • Life-long learning
• Section 4 - Teaching Arts and Languages
  • Teaching German Language and Literature
  • Teaching English Language and Literature
  • Bi-lingual Instruction
  • Teaching Romance Languages
  • Teaching Ancient Languages and Philosophy
  • Athletics, Movement, Games
  • Visual Arts
  • Teaching Theatre
  • Teaching Music
• Section 5 - Teaching Social Sciences, Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• Teaching Geography
• Teaching History
• Teaching Social Science Subjects (Political Science, Sociology, Economics)
• Teaching General Studies (Society and Nature)
• Teaching Religion
• Teaching Mathematics, Informatics and Beginning Mathematics
• Teaching Natural Sciences
• Teaching Home Economics
• Teaching Technical Subjects
• Teaching General Studies with a concentration in Nature and Technology
• Teaching Philosophy
• Hamburg School History
• Implementation and Evaluation of Special Teaching Support Systems
• School Development and School Development Research
• Teaching Integration
• Cross-cultural Education
• Philosophical Education
• Women's Expert Advising Network/Mentoring
• Interdisciplinary Center of World Religions in Dialogue (ZWiD)
• Center of Disability Studies (ZeDiS)
• Center for Key Competencies

Psychology

• General Psychology (AP)
• Work and Organizational Psychology (AO)
• Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology (BIO)
• Differential Psychology and Diognostic Psychology (DD)
• Developmental Psychology (EP)
• Pediatric Psychotherapy and Diagnostics
• Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (KP)
• Pedagogical Psychology and Motivation (PPM)
• Personality Development in Groups
• Psychological Methods
• Social Psychology (SOZ)
• General Professional Skills

Human Movement Sciences

• Culture, Media and Society
• Sports and Movement Medicine
• Teaching Movement and Sports
• Movement and Athletic Training Studies
• University Athletics

(5) FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

Protestant Theology

• Institute of Old Testament Studies (IAT)
• Institute of New Testament Studies (INT)
• Institute of Church History and Dogma (IKD)
• Institute of Systematic Theology (ISyTh)
• Institute of Practical Theology (IPrakTh)
  • "Church and City"
• Institute of Missionary, Ecumenical and Regigious Studies (IMÖR)
• Missions Academy at the Universität Hamburg
• Theology of the Peace Churches

Languages, Literature and Media (SLM I)

• Institute of German Language and Literature I: German Language, Old German Literature, Lower German Language and Literature, Scandinavian Studies
• Language Center (ZfS)
• Institute for German Language and Literature II: New German Literature
  • AGORA (eSience in studying and teaching literature)
  • Computer Philology
  • Feminist Literature
  • The History of Knowledge and Literature (AGWL)
  • Graphic Literature (ArGL)
  • Research Centre for the History of Broadcasting in Northern Germany
  • Hamburg Center of the Goethe Dictionary
  • Cross-cultural Literature and Media Studies
  • Walter-A.-Berendsohn Research Centre for German Exile Literature (BFfdE)
• Institute of Media and Communication (IMK)
  • Research Center for Film and TV (FFF)
• Institute of German Sign Language and Communication Among the Hearing Impaired (IDGS)

European Languages and Literatures (SLM II)

• Institute of Greek and Latin Philology (IGrLatPhil)
  • Teuchos. Research Center for Handwritten Documents and Texts
  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Archive of Greek Lexicography)
• Department of English and American Studies
  • University Players Theater Workshop
• Institute of Romance Languages (IRom)
  • Centro de Língua Portuguesa / Instituto Camões
  • Hamburg Center for Multi-lingualism and Language Contacts (HAZEMS)
• Institute of Slavic Studies (ISlav)
• Institute of Finno-Ugrian/Uralik Studies (IFUU)
  • Center for Hungarian Studies
• Institute of General and Applied Linguistics (IAAS)
• Studying and Career (General Professional Skills)
• Institute of Journalism

History (Historical Seminar)

• Ancient History
• Middle Ages
• Medieval Studies in hamburg
• Medieval Research in Hamburg
• German History
• European History
• Non-European History

Philosophy

• Areas of Concentration:
• History of Philosophy
• Epistomology, Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, Philosophy of Science and Logic
• Practical Philosophy
• Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind and Ontology

Cultural History and Contemporary Culture

• Archaeological Institute(Archl)
• Prehistorical and Early Archaelogy
• Archaeology and Cultural History of the Ancient Mediterranean
• Egyptian Studies
• Meso-American Studies
• Art History Seminar (KunstgS)
• Music Institute (MwInst)
• Akademische Musikpflege
• Institute of Anthropology/Cultural Anthropology (IfVK)
• Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (IfE)

Asia-Africa Sciences

• Department of Japanese Language and Culture
• Department of Chinese Language and Culture
• Korean Studies
• Language and Culture of South-East Asia
• Austronesian Studies
• Thai and Vietnamese Studies
• Department of Indian and Tibetan Culture and History 
• Department of Middle Eastern History and Culture
• Department of African and Ethiopean Studies (IAÄ)
• Summer Schools
• Asia-Africa Express
• TurkeyEurope Center
• Center for Buddhist Studies
• Confucius Institute

(6) FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER AND NATURAL SCIENCES

Biology

• Center for Biology in Klein Flottbek and the Botanical Garden
• Systematics of Plants
• Cell Biology and Phycology
• Ecology and Biology of Useful Plants
• Physiology of Plants
• Phytomedicine
• Molecular Biology
• Developmental Biology
• Molecular Phytopathology and Genetics
• Microbiology
• Botanical Garden
• Loki Schmidt-Haus (Botanical Museum)
• Center of Biology at Grindel, Zoological Museum and Zoological Institute (ZooI)
• Department of Evolutionary Biology
• Functional Morphology
• Department of Human Biology
• Department of Molecular Evolution
• Department of Animal Ecology and Conservation
• Department of Animal Physiology
• Division of Behavioural Biology
• Institute of Hydrobiology and Fishery Science
• Zoological Museum: Scientific Collections
• Entomology
• Herpetology
• Ichthyology
• Malacology
• Invertebrates I
• Invertebrates II
• Department of Ornithology
• Mammology
• Exhibitions
• Publications
• Institute of Wood Sciences
• World Forestry
• Economics of Forest Products
• Ergonomics and Biocybernetics
• Wood Technology
• Chemical Technology
• Mechanical Technology
• Center for Bioinformatics Hamburg
• Key Research Area Biotechnology, Society and Environment
• Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology
• Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut 
• Institute of Rural Studies (LR)
• Institute of Farm Economics (BW)
• Institute of Market Analysis and Agricultural Trade Policy (MA)
• Institute of Agricultural Technology and Biosystems Engineering (AB)
• Institute of Biodiversity (BD)
• Institute for Agricultural Climate Research (AK)
• Institute of Organic Farming (OEL)
• Institute of Wood Technology and Wood Biology (HTB)
• Institute of Forest Based Sector Economics (OEF)
• Institute of World Forestry (WFW)
• Institute of Forest Ecology and Forest Inventory (WOI)
• Institute of Forest Genetics (FG)
• Institute of Sea Fisheries (SF)
• Institute of Fisheries Ecology (FOE)
• Institute of Baltic Sea Fishery (OSF)
• Biological Institute Helgoland of the Alfred Wegener Institute
• Federal Institute for Plant Breeding Research on Crops

Chemistry

• Inorganic and Applied Chemistry
• Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry
• Organic Marine Chemistry
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Food Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry
• Pharmaceutics
• Department of Pharmaceutical Biology
• Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
• Department of Pharmaceutical Technology
• Department of Clincial Pharmaceutics
• Department of Public Health
• Department of Pharmacology for Pharmaceuticists (UKE)

Earth Sciences

• Institute for Geography (IGeogr)
• Minerological-Petrographic Institute (MPI)
• Geological-Paleontological Institute and Museum (GPI)
• Geo-dynamics, Neo-tectonics, Geo-risks
• Sedimentology and Basin Analysis
• Micropaleontology
• Meteorological Institute (MI)
• Meteorological Observatory Helgoland
• Institute of Geophysics (IfG)
• Institute of Oceanography (IMee)
• Institute of Soil Science (IfB)
• Institute for Biochemistry and Marine Chemistry (IfBM)
• Center for Marine and Climate Research
• Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (ZMAW)
• Sustainability and Global Change
• Max Planck nstitute for Meterology (MPI-M)
• Center for Marine and Climate Research (ZMK)
• The German High Performance Computing Center for Climate and Earth System Research

Informatics

• Center for Distributed Information and Communication Systems (VIKS)
• Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science (TGI)
• Distributed Systems and Information Systems (VSIS)
• eTelecommunication and Computer Networks (TKRN)
• Security in Distributed Systems (SVS)
• Center for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISR)
• Cognitive Systems Group (KOGS)
• Natural Language Systems (NatS)
• Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS)
• Knowledge and Language Processing (WSV)
• Knowledge Technology and Knowledge Management (WTM)
• Center for Architecture and Design of IT-Systems (AGIS)
• Applied and Social Informatics (ASI)
• Software Engineering Group (SWT)
• Information Technology Design and Gender (ITG)
• Interactive Media/Virutal Environments (IMVE)
• Technical Information Systems(TIS)
• Scientific Computing (WR)
• Graduate Colleges
• International Graduate College: Cross-Modal Interaction in Natural and  Artificial Cognitive Systems (CINACS)
• Maßgeschneiderte Metall-Halbleiter-Hybridsysteme (Functional Metal-Semiconductor Hybrid Systems) (1286)

Mathematics

• Algebraic, Geometric and Discrete Structures
• Algebra and Number Theory 
• Analysis and Differential Geometry
• Discrete Mathematics
• Optimization and Partial Differential Equations
• Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
• Optimization and Approximation
• Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics
• Risik Management in Complex Systems
• Other Areas
• Incidence Geometry and Gender Studies
• History of Science
• Interdisciplinary centres
• Mathematical Seminar
• Mathematical Physics
• Modelling and Simulation
• GAMM Activity Group "Optimization with PDE constraints"
• Hamburg Center for Insurance Science HZV
• SFB 676: Particles, Strings and the Early Universe: the strukture of matter ans space-time
• Emmy-Noether Research Group "Quantum Geometry: mathematical physics along the road to quantum gravity"

Physics

• Institute of Applied Physics
• Surface Science Physics
• Semiconductor Physics
• Multifunctional Nanostructures
• Group Chemical Physics of Nanostructures
• Nanostructure Physics
• Optics
• Scanning Probe Methods Group
• Theory of Spintronics
• Growth
• Institute of Experimental Physics
• Partical and Detector Physics
• Acceleration
• Laser and X-Ray Physics
• Institute of Laser Physics
• Centre for Optical Quantum Technologies
• I. Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Mesoscopics Group
• Quantum Theory of Condensed Matter
• Theory of Magnetism and Electronic Correlations
• Many-Body Systems and Quantum-Statistical Methods
• Theory of Strongly Correlated Materials
• II. Institute for Theoretical Physics
• HamburgerObservatory
• Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL)

Center for Bioinformatics Hamburg (ZBH)

• Research Group for Genome Informatics
• Research Group for Biomolecular Modeling
• Research Group for Computational Molecular Design

INTERDISCIPLINARY INSTITUTIONS AND CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS OF THE UNIVERSITY

• Center for Academic Further Education (AWW)
• Center for Buddhist Studies
• Center of Competence in Nano-Scale Analysis (CCN)
• Center for Higher Education Didactics (ZHD)
• Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ZIS)
• Center for Oceanography and Climate Research (ZMK)
• Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (ZMAW)
• Center for Mathematical Physics (ZMP)
• Center for Science and Peace Research
• Graduate School of the RCMC
• Hamburg Center for Insurance Science (HZV)
• Hamburg Centre for Multilingualism and Language Contact (HAZEMS)
• Institute for Psychotherapy (IfP)
• Interdisciplinary Center "Religions of the World in Dialogue" (ZWiD)
• International Tax Institute (IIFS)
• Regional Computer Center (RRZ)
• Research Center for Biotechnology, Society and the Environment (BIOGUM)
• Research Center for Media and Communication RCMC / Zentrum für Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung
• Research Group "Technology Assessment of Modern Biotechnology in Medicine/Neuro-Sciences"
• Research Group "Technology Assessment of Modern Biotechnology in Plant Breeding and Agriculture"

INTERDISCIPLINARY COUNCILS AND TEAMS

• Innovationsfördernde Regelungsstrukturen im deutschen Universitätssystem
• Archiv zur Erforschung der Materialikonographie
• Molekulare Grundlagen und funktionelle Charakterisierung der Metastasierungskaskade
• Signalwege im gesunden und kranken Herzen
• Forschergruppe Intrazellulärer RNA-Transport (eMail: richter@uke.uni-hamburg.de)
• Klinische Forschergruppe 111: Intersexualität - vom Gen zur Geschlechtsidentität
• Forschergruppe Narratologie
• Forschergruppe Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Innovationsfähigkeit von Universitäten und Forschungsorganisationen

DFG (German Research Foundation) RESEARCH GROUPS

• Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures
• Research Group Neuronal Protein Turnover
• Signal Paths in Healthy and Unhealthy Hearts
• Innovation-promoting Regulation Structures in the German University System
• Research Group Personal Testimonials from a Transcultural Perspective

SPECIAL RESEARCH AREAS

• SFB 470: Glycostrukturen in Biosystemen - Darstellung und Wirkungsweise
• SFB 508: Quantenmaterialien - laterale und hybride Strukturen
• SFB 512: Tiefdruckgebiete und Klimasystem des Nordatlantiks
• SFB 538: Mehrsprachigkeit
• SFB 668: Magnetismus vom Einzelatom zur Nanostruktur
• SFB 676:Teilchen, Strings und frühes Universum: Struktur von Materie und Technik
• SFB 841: Leberentzündung: Infektion, Immunregulation und Konsequenzen
• SFB / Transregio 58: Furcht, Angst, Angsterkrankungen

Research Training Groups

• GKR 602: Zukünftige Entwicklungen in der Teilchenphysik (seit 2000)
• GRK 611: Design and Characterization of Functional Materials (seit 2001)
• GRK 1286: Functional Metal-Semiconductor Hybrid Systems (seit 2006)
• GRK 1351: Extrasolar Planets and their Host Stars
• GRK 1355: Physics with new advanced coherent radiation sources
• GRK 1459: Sorting and Interactions Between Proteins of Subcellular Compartments
• GRK 1006/1 (Beteiligung): Kunst und Technik
• GRK 1597/1: Ökonomik der Internationalisierung des Rechts