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10 May 2023|Research

Internet or linear: What Does the Future of TV Look Like?

Two children watching TV

Photo: Pixabay/Victoria Regen

Internet TV and linear TV—both are here to stay, according to Prof. Dr. Joan Kristin Bleicher. The TV expert has just published a new book on the history of internet TV and explains the strategies traditional TV is now pursuing, the dangers posed by AI, and what schools should do.
8 May 2023|Research

Spitrobot: Observing Changes in Proteins Faster and More Easily

Friedjof Tellkamp (MPSD), Pedram Mehrabi (Univrersität Hamburg), and Eike C. Schulz (UKE)

Photo: Jörg Harms, MPSD

To develop new biotechnological applications, researchers need to understand changes in proteins. A group from different institutions in Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld has now developed the “spitrobot,” a new, significantly simpler procedure to observe these reactions. The research team has...
5 April 2023|Research

Doing the Research series: Can Algorithms Create the Perfect Portfolio?

View of a computer screen showing stock market prices

Photo: Pixabay PIX1861

What conditions do capital markets require and which instruments can make them more predictable? These are a few of the research topics in the focus area of finance, banking, and insurance at the Faculty of Business Administration. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Drobetz provides some insight into current...
27 March 2023|Research

Knowledge exchange project: imaging procedure to fight chronic diseases

Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner, Katharina Fegebank, Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost, Dr. Bakr Fadl, Dr. Theresa Staufer

Photo: UHH/Kaminski

To treat many diseases, it is vital to understand the exact nature of immune cells. A research team headed by Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner at Universität Hamburg has now developed an innovative imaging method that enables direct examination of these cells. On 27 March, the results from the cooperation...
28 February 2023|Research

New Antarctic expedition: Tracking of Fin Whales for the First Time Using Satellite Transmitters

Dr. Helena Herr

Photo: Private

We already know where the fin whales of the southern hemisphere feed. Researchers, however, have not yet studied where they mate and breed. Now an expedition to the Antarctic, which started on 25 February, hopes to find out. The Universität Hamburg biologist Dr. Helena Herr is leading the...
6 February 2023|Research

“Different, but completely right in the head”— Research on neurodiversity and attention

Screenshot of the mathildr app

Photo: mathildr

The human central nervous system has about 400 billion nerve connections. Due to genetic syndromes, the ways these manifest can be very different from person to person. In this episode of Doing the Research, educator Prof. Dr. André Zimpel talks about his research on diversity in “neurodiversity,”...
5 January 2023|Research

Doing the Research: Model for autonomous vessels used for inland waterway shipping

Binnenschiff

Photo: pixabay/dendoktoor

Researchers are not only developing technologies for autonomous cars, but also for vessels used for inland waterway shipping. But until now, no model has taken into account all the different economic and political factors involved in introducing such autonomous vessels. The team around Prof. Dr...
12 December 2022|Research

Doing the Research: How people interpret the behavior of others

Woman undergoing EEG measurements

Photo: Universität Hamburg

What meaning do humans attach to the behavior of others? The TrackingMinds project team under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gluth in the research group Experimental Psychology are looking at how we estimate strangers and their decisions. In the interview below, Gluth explains how they...
23 November 2022|Research

Doing the Research: Virtual reality in archaeology

The theater of Miletus in virtual reality: We see the preserved parts (laser scan), with added reconstructions and the markings of inscriptions in the audience.

Photo: UWA-Projekt Immersive City Scripts, Jenny Gabel

Miletus was one of the most important cities of classical antiquity. Research, headed by Prof. Dr. Christof Berns from the Archaeological Institute, is being conducted on the ruins, roughly 80 kilometers from Izmir. Berns is interested in the use and appropriation of the city by diverse social...
27 October 2022|Research

Doing the Research: “It’s not easy to dismantle stereotypes with knowledge.”

Colorful abacus

Photo: pixabay/Pexels

Gender stereotypes can strongly influence teachers’ expectations. In the TEG-Know project, researchers from the Faculty of Education, in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel and Freie Universität Berlin, are looking into whether...
6 September 2022|Research

Prognosis Program Recognizes Neurological Complications

ECG machine

Photo: pixabay/Bokskapet

For many intensive care patients, pressure on the brain must be monitored vigilantly and diagnosis depends strongly on the attending physician’s experience. The neurologist Dr. Nils Schweingruber from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) has developed an AI-based system that...
25 August 2022|Research

Doing the Research: A Digital Twin for Hamburg’s Port

Container terminal in Hamburg

Photo: EUROGATE/Vielmo

Hamburg’s harbor is the largest sea port in Germany and the third largest in Europe. Increasing costs and competition alongside climate protection concerns are creating major challenges. A research group at the Institute of Information Systems is now developing a digital twin for the port in its...
18 August 2022|Research

Doing the Research: Ida and Richard Dehmel—Modernity’s Influencers

Richard and Ida Dehmel

Photo: Louis Held / public domain

Between 1890 and 1920, the artist couple Ida and Richard Dehmel corresponded with renowned artists such as Stefan Zweig, Rainer Maria Rilke, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Arnold Schönberg. Prof. Dr. Julia Nantke is researching the 35,000 handwritten documents in her project Dehmel Digital and making them...
11 August 2022|Research

Doing the Research: What makes for good school sports?

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Photo: pixabay/schwalbenschwanz

For some, it’s the best part of the school day, for others, torture. Ah, gym class! Yet what makes for good school sports? This is the question at the heart of the QualiTePE project with Prof. Dr. Erin Gerlach and Dr. Wiebke Langer at the Institute of Human Movement Science. Our series Doing the...
13 July 2022|Research

Doing the Research: The Swedish key to mythology

Fall at the Städjan mountain, Dalarna

Photo: UHH/Schirg

Dr. Bernhard Schirg and his team in the Public History research group study the stories that people tell about landscapes. The basis for their work is the 4-volume Atlantica by the Swedish scholar Olof Rudbeck (1630–1702), who not only traced Atlantis but all of ancient mythology to Sweden. Our...
29 June 2022|Research

Doing the Research: Does experience abroad help you become a better teacher?

TTT group photo

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Scholz

Why should future teachers go abroad during their studies if they are going to teach at a German school afterwards? The Faculty of Education’s Tricontinental Teacher Training project answers these questions and explores other benefits. Our series Doing the Research introduces research projects at...
16 May 2022|Research

Doing the Research: From which countries should we import hydrogen?

Hydrogen refueling station in HafenCity, Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Keller

Green hydrogen production requires water and renewable energy. The southern hemisphere presents particularly good geophysical conditions. Prof. Dr. Franziska Müller is investigating the risks that need to be considered in countries such as South Africa, Morocco, or Chile as part of the German...
10 May 2022|Research

Doing the Research: When is war between countries justified?

Hugo Grotius

Photo: public domain

Authored in the seventeenth century but still relevant: a standard work of legal thought by Hugo Grotius, written in 1631, is being re-translated at Universität Hamburg’s Faculty of Law. Prof. Dr. Tilman Repgen, project head and dean of the faculty, on what makes this treatise on international law...
21 April 2022|Research

Doing the Research: How meetings affect corporate success

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Photo: UHH/Lutsch

Many employees spend several hours per week in meetings. How can meetings, virtual or in person, be effective? Prof. Dr. Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock and her Work and Organizational Psychology research team are studying this very question. Our series Doing the Research introduces research projects at...
12 April 2022|Research

Researchers develop laser system for experiments in weightlessness

DLR-Logo, Rack

Photo: DLR, DOI: 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-020-00090-8

In the weightlessness of the International Space Station, experiments can be carried out that would not be possible on Earth. As part of a new collaborative project, researchers from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg are now building a complete quantum gas experiment that will enable...
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