Research

Prof. Dr. Erika Garutti is professor of experimental physics at Universität Hamburg. One focus of her research is the development and construction of silicon detectors. These detectors are indicators of physical processes and are deployed in large-scale, international research projects such as CERN...

Prof. Dr. Robi Banerjee and Dr. Michael Salz from the Hamburg Observatory on astronomy, the Observatory, and "vaporizing planets." The Hamburg Observatory is an institute within the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg. Its scientists carry out basic research in astronomy and astrophysics...

For many, spiders give more cause for fright than fascination. Not so for scientists working on Universität Hamburg's Arachnid Collection: together with centipedes, millipedes, mites, and tardigrades, spiders form the basis of diverse research into the insect world. [Read on in English . . .]