Anthropologist Michael Schnegg conducts research on climate change at the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS and spends several months of every year in a village in Namibia. His findings offer another perspective on nature than the “Western” view. In terms of climate change, this can mean responding to setbacks in unconventional...

A research team from five institutes, coordinated by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and the University of Hamburg, is receiving millions in funding for the IFuEL project (short for Inertial Fusion Energy Laser Development and HED-Analytics). The project aims to develop and test a highly efficient and scalable laser...

On 22 January 2026, University of Hamburg representatives met their colleagues from the Netherlands. The collaboration with the University of Groningen, which has been a strategic partner since 2019, should be intensified in the future.

Our brain is inconceivably complex and it changes every moment of our lives. In the Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science, Prof. Dr. Nicolas Schuck looks at what happens neurally when we experience things and remember. In the interview below, the professor of cognitive neurosciences with a focus on learning and...

Today’s festive groundbreaking with Maryam Blumenthal (science senator), Dr. Andreas Dressel (finance senator), Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren (president of the University of Hamburg), Martin Sowinski (managing director of Sprinkenhof GmbH), and Prof. Dr. Erika Garutti from the Institute of Experimental Physics at the University...

International exchange and networking: the University of Hamburg has been a member of the European University Alliance for Global Health for several years. At the beginning of 2026, it took over the annually rotating EUGLOH presidency.