From climate research and quantum physics to manuscript and materials research: Hamburg was successful in the nationwide Excellence Strategy competition with no fewer than five clusters of excellence. Over the next seven years, they will receive approximately €266.4 million in federal funding. The Hamburg Senate will...

The University of Hamburg is the scientific home to more than 6,200 researchers. Every 2 weeks, we offer a glimpse into their work as part of the “Research and Understanding” series in the Hamburger Abendblatt. In this edition, Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke explains how AI and virtual reality can be designed to be as...

Every year, numerous new researchers join the University of Hamburg. In this series, we introduce them and their fields of research. This time: cultural studies scholar Hilke Marit Berger.

Over the course of two days, UC President and Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Edward McCauley and his team discussed collaboration with President Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren and other UHH representatives, and visited Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld, among other locations.

Shovel-headed garden worm, alligator weed, or the Javan mongoose: Hamburg has become home to many invasive, non-native animal and plant species. Most recently, the Volga zander appeared in the Elbe. In an interview, Prof. Dr. Matthias Glaubrecht, professor of Animal Biodiversity at the University of Hamburg, explains the...

The Arctic has been experiencing record wildfires for years. Lukas Fiedler, a researcher at the Earth and Society Research Hub (ESRAH) at the University of Hamburg, has now been able to demonstrate: the extreme fire years 2019 to 2021 can be attributed to human-caused climate change. His study was published in the...