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It is now official—the future project Science City Bahrenfeld is due to start in 2020. The aim: to strengthen Hamburg as a hub for science! And to offer the greatest minds in Hamburg and worldwide a creative, attractive, and sustainable space to learn, teach, research, live, and work. A project that...

Researchers at Universität Hamburg have successfully applied for funding in the large core facilities initiative “Neuartige, experimentelle Lichtmikroscope für die Forschung” spearheaded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). This means €900,000 for an innovative light microscope. The microscope...

The European Territorial Cooperation INTERREG has awarded €3.6 million to the German-Scandinavian research project “Hanseatic League of Science (HALOS).” In addition to Universität Hamburg, academic and corporate partners from German, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are taking part in HALOS.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a €2 million Consolidator Grant to Prof. Dr. Dorota Koziej from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg. In her project “A Platform to LINk Between CHemistry and PhysIcs of Colloidal Nanomaterials (LINCHPIN)”, Koziej will make radiation...

Prof. Dr. Julia Kehr from the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg successfully acquired an ERC Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) this year. In the project “Plant Mobile RNAs: Function, Transport and Features” (PLAMORF) Prof. Kehr will spend six years together with Dr...

When we put water in a freezer, water molecules crystallize and form ice. This change from one phase of matter to another is called a phase transition. While this transition, and countless others that occur in nature, typically takes place at the same fixed conditions, such as the freezing point...