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15 July 2025|Excellence Strategy

Holy Warriors, Monasteries, and Demons

Photo of the student research group

Photo: Private

How do video games and TV series portray the Christian religion? Three students at the University of Hamburg are researching exactly that, and...
30 June 2025|Excellence Strategy

Former Command Post Becomes Public Garden

Photo of the bunker’s green rooftop

Photo: CC0

The conversion of the former command post and bunker on Heiligengeistfeld has created a sensation. The New York Times, for instance, named Hamburg one...
25 June 2025|Research

Doing the Research: How Can AI Recognize Causality?

As part of the study, the image of a toy was created using DALL-E, with the instruction not to violate any copyright.

Photo: AI-generated using DALL-E

AI is now part of almost all areas of life. Machine learning methods can help us identify patterns in large amounts of data, but can they also...
23 June 2025|Research

STC Active City: “We are assuming a central coordinating role in the long term.”

Dr. Nils Schumacher, Maryam Blumenthal, and Andy Grote (from left)

Photo: Mona Herden

For over 5 years, a team from the Institute of Human Movement Science has been looking at how active Hamburg is. The project led to the founding of...
19 June 2025|Excellence Strategy

Excellence Website Redesign

Illustration of the University of Hamburg Main Building

Photo: University of Hamburg / Vogiatzis

In preparation for the University of Excellence evaluation by the German Council of Science and Humanities, our University’s excellence website had a...
11 June 2025|Campus

Starting your career at the University of Hamburg: Stellenwerk job fair on 17 and 18 June 2025

Key visual for the job fair showing 2 young people standing side by side laughing while doing a fist bump.

Photo: Stellenwerk:

Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence helps students prepare for academic and nonacademic careers. This year’s Stellenwerk job fair on...
4 June 2025|Research

International, interdisciplinary, intensive Starting Your Researcher Career with Doctoral Networks

Young people form a circle and place their hands on top of each other

Photo: University of Hamburg / von Wieding

Funded by the European Union Doctoral Networks enables early career researchers to do research within a university consortium and learn from experts...
30 May 2025|Research

Building on UKE research on the maternal immune system and kidney filtration

UKE main building

Photo: UKE/Axel Kirchhof

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has authorized funding for 2 new collaborative research centers involving UKE...
23 May 2025|Excellence Strategy

“Top-Level Research Has a Home, and It’s Called Hamburg”

Photos from the cluster announcement in the University of Hamburg Audimax

Photo: University of Hamburg / Höhne

On 22 May 2025, the German Research Foundation (DFG) endorsed the tremendous work carried out in the University of Hamburg’s clusters of excellence...
22 May 2025|Excellence Strategy

“A Great Success: The University of Hamburg Awarded 4 Clusters of Excellence”

Man sieht das Hauptgebäude der Uni Hamburg.

Photo: UHH/Denstorf

The University of Hamburg was extremely successful in the framework of the Excellence Strategy, securing funding for the 4 existing clusters of...
7 May 2025|Campus

Teaching prize: “Good teaching focuses on building skills”

Teaching prize award at the University of Hamburg

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

Five committed teachers have received the first new teaching prize at the University of Hamburg. They were recognized for inspiring and effective...
6 May 2025|Research

Humboldt Professorship for Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller with the Alexander von Humboldt award

Photo: Humboldt Foundation / David Ausserhofer

Six Alexander von Humboldt professorships were awarded at a ceremony on 5 May 2025. One of the recipients is Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller, who had a...
5 May 2025|Campus

“Advancing the Area of Studies and Teaching Is A Top Priority”

Portrait of From Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schnapp

Photo: University of Hamburg / Feuerböther

On 1 May 2025, Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schnapp became the new dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo) at the University of...
29 April 2025|Campus

Public project on 80 years of freedom since the end of World War II

The illuminated Main Building of the University at night

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

On 8 May 1945, World War II and the Nazi reign of terror came to an end. To mark the 80th anniversary, a range of University events commemorate this...
28 April 2025|Research

How our brain responds to mistakes and why that can make us sick

A test subject wearing an EEG cap

Photo: University of Hamburg / Göttling

To err is human, yet some people’s brains respond to mistakes with great alarm. Prof. Dr. Anja Riesel, professor of clinical psychology and...
24 April 2025|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Astrid Zech strengthens Human Movement Science.

Prof. Dr. Astrid

Photo: private

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: sports...
22 April 2025|Internal

Introducing Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth, the new dean of the University of Hamburg Business School

Our video series introduces administrative and academic colleagues new to management positions at the University of Hamburg. In the current episode...
22 April 2025|Campus

STiNE: New Design and Better Usability

A student looking at the new STiNE web page on her laptop

Photo: University of Hamburg / Röttger

The University of Hamburg has overhauled STiNE, its campus management system web portal. The update comes with a more responsive design and a new look...
7 April 2025|Research

Hamburg Center for Kidney Health: Video Insights Into Kidney Research

Screenshot aus dem Video über Nierenforschung
At the Hamburg Center for Kidney Health, Shuya Liu, research group leader of the Kidney Targeted Gene Therapy team, and Badr Khbouz, researcher in...
3 April 2025|Excellence Strategy

Excellence Strategy “A Wonderful Opportunity to Advance Our University”

Information event about the Excellence Strategy

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

Within the ongoing competition for clusters of excellence and the 2025 excellence evaluations, members of the Executive University Board have apprised...
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