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Unique PhD Agreement
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12.09.2018|In focus
Unique International Joint PhD Agreement
Universität Hamburg has just signed a trilateral joint PhD agreement with Macquarie University (MQ) from Sydney, Australia, and Fudan University (FU) from Shanghai in China. This is the first agreement of its kind to be signed with a Chinese university. Universität Hamburg has been running a...
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit
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29.08.2018|Research
Bacteria—nature’s trash collector for plastics?
Could microorganisms devour and rid the world of microplastics? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Streit and his team in the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg are trying to find out.
Leonard Borchert
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03.07.2018|Research
How extremes can help: improved accuracy for 10-year forecasts
Leonard Borchert’s goal is to make weather forecasts for the next 10 years more accurate. To do so, he has observed the North Atlantic, which strongly influences the weather in Europe. Borchert’s findings have now been published in the Journal of Climate. As a PhD candidate at CEN, he also knows...
Portrait von Mahmut Yüksel
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21.06.2018|Campus
From “Hopeless” to Harvard
Poor grades in elementary school almost put an early end to this young man’s pursuits. Now Mahmut Yüksel is working towards a double degree in medicine and informatics at Universität Hamburg and off to earn a medical doctorate at Harvard University.
Alexander Gerst wearing Universität Hamburg hoody
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07.06.2018|Campus
From Hamburg to the Horizon: Alexander Gerst returns to command the ISS
Alexander Gerst (42) is not only the most famous astronaut from the Federal Republic of Germany, and, from October, the first German commander of the International Space Station (ISS), but also a Universität Hamburg graduate. The Doctor of Geophysics is due to arrive at the ISS with his team...
Prof. Dr. Chris Meier from the Department of Chemistry
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23.05.2018|Research
Inflammatory reactions of the immune system: New collaborative research center on the role of molecules produced in the body
Scientists in the Faculty of Medicine and the Departments of Chemistry and Biology at Universität Hamburg investigate the role of signaling molecules in inflammatory diseases in the Collaborative Research Center “Adenine Nucleotides in Immunity and Inflammation” (CRC 1328). The Collaborative...
Werbescreen für die App UHH global der Universität Hamburg für iOS und Android
22.05.2018|Video
“UHH global” for iOS and Android
The Universität Hamburg “UHH global app” is now available for free download from the App Store and Google Play Store. The English-language app is another Universität Hamburg service aimed at international users to provide quick access to key information and services at the university.
Filmstill aus dem Video "Die Jagd nach Radiogalaxien in den Weiten des Universums"
11.05.2018|Research
The search for radio galaxies in the vast universe
The Low Frequency Array, also known as LOFAR, is an innovative digital radio telescope based in The Netherlands and spanning 6 European countries. Universität Hamburg and the University of Bielefeld also have a LOFAR receiving station in Norderstedt. In our video, Prof. Dr. Marcus Brüggen and...

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Werbescreen für die App UHH global der Universität Hamburg für iOS und Android
“UHH global” for iOS and Android
The Universität Hamburg “UHH global app” is now available for free download from the App Store and Google Play Store. The English-language app is another Universität Hamburg service aimed at international users to provide quick access to key information and services at the university.
  • Filmstill aus dem Video "Die Jagd nach Radiogalaxien in den Weiten des Universums"
    The search for radio galaxies in the vast universe
  • Universitätspräsident Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen im Gespräch mit dem Ersten Bürgermeister der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg Olaf Scholz
    University president Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen and Hamburg's first mayor Olaf Scholz discuss
  • Olaf Scholz
    Commitment to Hamburg as center of science and scholarship. Speech by first mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz
  • Forschungsschwerpunkt „Teilchen-, Astro- und Mathematische Physik“
    Key research area Particle, Astro- and Mathematical Physics

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Dr. Christof Weitenberg
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31 July 2018
ERC Starting Grant for Hamburg physicist

Dr. Christof Weitenberg, scientist at the Institute of Laser Physics, Hamburg, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth around...

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DFG Center for Advanced Studies to look at how modern societies change when they follow different sustainability goals.
Anna Jiménez Calaf
4 July 2018
New DFG Center for Advanced Studies to research sustainability

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has granted funding for a new Center for Advanced Study at...

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Ultracold atoms are ionized by an ultrashort laser pulse. Because the atomic motion is almost stopped at temperatures of 100 nK, losses due to ionization can be directly imaged and measured.
UHH/Wessels
4 July 2018
Hamburg scientists combine experimental expertise

Two separate research fields have been united in Hamburg for the very first time. Ultrashort laser pulses enable us to observe and...

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