Universität Hamburg (UHH)

Every year, University of Hamburg welcomes many new researchers. Here, we present part of a series to introduce them and their areas of research. This time: cosmologist Luisa Lucie-Smith.

Decision-making and negotiation processes in societies and the carbon cycle in large estuary rivers—the University of Hamburg was granted funding for economics and biology research from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Two research training groups will be funded for a further 4.5 years.

From track and field to rowing and hockey, the University of Hamburg has 30 exceptional athletes all studying while training to compete at the Olympic and Paralympic Games and national championships.

Rising temperatures, vanishing ice mass, warmer water and air temperatures—the effects of the world’s climate changes are especially notable in the Arctic, where they also impact the biological and chemical cycles in the soil. Dr. Carolina Voigt will now use an ERC Starting Grant to research the...

Every year, thousands of students earn their degree here. Hundreds of doctorates are also awarded. And the career options available after that are many and diverse. In this series, alumni from various faculties talk about what they learned at the University of Hamburg and what advice they have for...

Tsunamis do not only occur in distant oceans but also in the North and Baltic Seas. Prof. Dr. Jörn Behrens, professor of numerical methods in geosciences in the Department of Mathematics and the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), investigates how to calculate these...