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1 December 2025|Research

Funding for Long-Term Research Project on Middle Low German Grammar

Excerpt of Hamburg shipping laws, 1201

Photo: Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel

Middle Low German text culture is an integral part of northern Europe’s cultural heritage. A new long-term research project on Middle Low German...
24 November 2025|Campus

From Cube Ninja to City Hopper: Have Fun, Stay Fit While Studying

Student playing an exergame on the laptop in a lecture hall

Photo: UHH/Lorf-Stahl

Whether with someone else or alone, you can have fun, and for free, with the 8 movement games in the ExerRise project designed by researchers at the...
24 November 2025|In Focus

University of Hamburg Researchers Fortify German-Language Data Science Community

Two staff members in front of a University server

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

Research with large quantities of data has become relevant to more and more disciplines. This is why researchers from 21 German and Austrian research...
17 November 2025|Excellence Strategy

The German Physical Society Honors University of Hamburg Physicist

Portrait Prof. Cavalleri

Photo: MPSD

The German Physical Society has awarded Prof. Dr. Andrea Cavalleri the Stern-Gerlach Medal for outstanding work in experimental physics. Cavalleri is...
12 November 2025|Research

€2 Million for Research on Migratory Bird Navigation

White stork in flight

Photo: Adobe Stock

An important, still unanswered question in quantum biology is how biomagnetic perception, which migratory animals use for navigation, works. A...
10 November 2025|Excellence Strategy

“Belém is a signal.”

View of Belém

Photo: Rafa Neddermeyer/Cop30

In the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), Brazilian-born sociology professor Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse is...
7 November 2025|Campus

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Nina strengthens the Humanities.

Portrait of Prof. Dr. Nina Mackert

Photo: University of Hamburg / Yzer

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: historian...
6 November 2025|Excellence Strategy

Ultrafast meets ultrashort: CUI team receives prestigious ERC Synergy Grant

Group portrait with CUI researchers

Photo: Private

A research team in the Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter at the University of Hamburg and DESY has been awarded the prestigious...
21 October 2025|Excellence Strategy

The Sky in All Its Colors

Observatory in Chile from the outside

Photo: ESO/B. Tafreshi

A few days ago, the European Southern Observatory launched operation of a new type of instrument, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope...
13 October 2025|Forschung

“Whales make you happy”: Prof. Dr. Helena Herr strengthens the marine sciences

Prof. Dr. Helena Herr

Photo: L. Hickmott

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: marine...
10 October 2025|In Focus

THE World University Rankings: the University of Hamburg rises in the rankings

University of Hamburg Main Building

Photo: University of Hamburg / Schell

In the recently published THE World University Rankings 2026, the University of Hamburg has gone up 7 places compared to last year. It is now ranked...
8 October 2025|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder strengthens the Department of Social Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder

Photo: LIB/Pour

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time...
7 October 2025|Excellence Strategy

X-Ray Insight into Ancient Letters

Group photo with the ENCI team in the Anatolian Civilizations Museum in Ankara

Photo: Charles Steitler

The cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia are considered the world’s oldest written artifacts. Many of them are hidden in clay envelopes, their contents...
6 October 2025|Im Fokus

"We are significantly strengthening the resilience of universities faced with cyberattacks"

Portrait of Chief Digital and Chief Information Officer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Gerling, LL.M.

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

Joint, around-the-clock protection for IT systems—that is the aim of an international higher education security operations center (SOC). The...
2 October 2025|Excellence Strategy

Thoughts on the “Marvelous Magnifying Glass”

A high-resolution electron microscope reveals the distribution of elements in a nanoparticle

Photo: UHH/Kornowski

With its 5 electron microscopes, the University of Hamburg is a major location for these large pieces of equipment. The chemist Dr. Charlotte Ruhmlieb...
1 October 2025|Research

New platform makes it easier to access services from Hamburg foundations.

A person works on a laptop with the new foundation platform on the screen

Photo: Hamburg/Canva Foundation Office

On 1 October, a new platform went online that provides more transparency and guidance through Hamburg’s diverse foundation landscape. For the first...
30 September 2025|Campus

University-wide and interdisciplinary: Gaetano Rago Presents the Hub for Crossdisciplinary Learning

Gaetano Rago

Photo: University of Hamburg / Yzer

The goal of the new Hub for Crossdisciplinary Learning (HCL) is to provide an innovative, interdisciplinary range of courses and support for...
29 September 2025|Campus

The University’s new Science City lecture hall center is taking shape.

Visualization of the new lecture hall center of the University of Hamburg from the inside

Photo: Büro Luchterhandt & Partner

The Science City is growing. And so is campus of the University of Hamburg and other scientific institutions in Bahrenfeld. Aiming to provide the...
25 September 2025|Research

Long-Term Study in the Elbe Estuary: Fish Population Down by 90 Percent

A cutter on the Elbe

Photo: University of Hamburg / Thiel

In the last 4 decades, fish fauna in the Elbe estuary has changed dramatically according a project jointly conducted by the University of Hamburg and...
18 September 2025|Im Fokus

University’s Bundesstraße campus on the home stretch

Haus der Erde

Photo: HTP Hidde Timmermann Architekten / bloomimages

After delays and cost increases, the end is finally in sight for the new buildings on the Bundesstraße university campus: There is now a clear...
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