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16 June 2021|Research

Picking Up Good Vibrations

The vibro truck makes the ground vibrate. A cloud of dust forms.

Photo: DESY / Marta Mayer

For 2 weeks, an interdisciplinary research team measured vibrations on the DESY premises at Science City Hamburg-Bahrenfeld to study new measurement techniques using glass fiber cables. Physics experiments, climate research, and urban development can all benefit from the research. An unusual vehicle...

2 April 2021|Research

X-ray screening: promising candidates for COVID drugs

Photo: DESY/SciComLab

An international team of researchers, which on behalf of Universität Hamburg is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Betzel and Prof. Dr. Arwen Pearson, has identified several candidates for drugs against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using DESY´s X-ray lightsource PETRA III. In addition, a new...

23 February 2021|Research

EU funding for Future and Emerging Technologies

Collage of rock images and industrial plant

Photo: pixabay/sonnenbrunnen/SD-Pictures

The European Union’s FET Open program funds research projects on promising technologies. In the last round, 2 projects that included teams from Universität Hamburg were also successful.

22 December 2020|Research

Special gerontological issue of the European Journal of Ageing

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Universität Hamburg participates in a research network that examines notions of age and their impact. A special issue of the European Journal of Ageing presents an overview of the current state of research.

8 July 2020|Research

“Thunderstorms could increase”

Aufbau einer Messstation für die Erforschung von Gewittern an der Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Ohme

Thunderstorms create cold regions that can lead to new thunderstorms Computer simulations can depict the effect, but what does it look like in nature? A research team at Universität Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is now hot on the trail of this real-world phenomenon. It has...

6 May 2020|Research

Ideas and Venture Fund to Support 20 New Projects

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Universität Hamburg has selected 20 projects to receive funding this year from the Ideas and Venture Fund, which totals €688,000. The fund was created as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments and facilitates short-term funding for especially promising research...

11 November 2019|Research

Euro 19.3 million for 4 new research training groups at Universität Hamburg

Photo: German Research Foundation

Universität Hamburg enjoys another resounding success with the German Research Foundation (DFG) DFG has approved and will fund all 4 research training groups (RTGs) to the tune of €19.3 million in total. The research training groups will begin their work in April 2020 in the Departments of...

27 August 2019|Research

“If the forest disappears, it changes the climate and rainfall of the whole continent”

Map: fire in South America on 27 August 2019

Photo: NASA/FIRMS

Every summer, farmers in the Amazonian basin light fires, to clear land for farming. Currently, there are thousands of forest fires that are burning out of control. Brazilian researcher Debora Ferriera Pestana, a doctoral graduate of Universität Hamburg, explains why the forest is so important as a...

16 July 2019|Research

First Joint-Postdoctoral Research Position with Macquarie University in Sydney

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Researching in Australia: Educational Scientist Dr. phil. des. Anja Augsdörfer has begun the first joint-postdoctoral research position with Universität Hamburg and Macquarie University in Sydney: She is researching the methods teachers currently use to help students develop what is known as...

10 April 2019|Research

Black holes: what are they, actually?

Photo: EHT Collaboration

The international research project Event Horizon has now succeeded in photographing a black hole for the first time. But what is a black hole, actually, and what does it do? We’ve asked Prof. Dr. Jochen Liske from the Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg’s observatory.

7 February 2019|Research

Remembering together—but how?

Photo: Cedric Mercken

Whether positive experiences like sporting events or negative catastrophes, how do we commemorate things, as individuals or collectively? This is one of the questions at the center of the EU funded research network Participatory Memory Practices (POEM) primarily involving the work of early career...

11 December 2018|Research

Onora O’Neill speaks at the Universität Hamburg

Photo: Onora O'Neill

Onora O'Neill is one of the world’s most distinguished contemporary moral philosophers. On December 18 she will give a lecture at the Universität Hamburg on “Rethinking the Ethics of Communication”.

29 August 2018|Research

Bacteria—nature’s trash collector for plastics?

Photo: UHH/MIN/Latos

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.

3 July 2018|Research

How extremes can help: improved accuracy for 10-year forecasts

Photo: CC3.0 B.Abis, MPI-M

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...

23 May 2018|Research

Inflammatory reactions of the immune system: New collaborative research center on the role of molecules produced in the body

Prof. Dr. Chris Meier from the Department of Chemistry

Photo: UHH/Schober

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...

11 May 2018|Research

The search for radio galaxies in the vast universe

Filmstill aus dem Video "Die Jagd nach Radiogalaxien in den Weiten des Universums"

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...

9 May 2018|Research

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for legal researcher Anne van Aaken

Photo: Humboldt-Stiftung/ Svea Pietschmann

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken from Universität Hamburg with the renowned Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Berlin. Prof. van Aaken is recognized internationally as a distinguished expert in the field of economic analysis of law. She investigates...

16 April 2018|Research

Emissions trading: “A powerful tool that’s become much too complicated”

Photo: UHH/RRZ/MCC/Mentz

The EU has once again reformed its emissions trading system—even though the previous reform had yet to go into effect. Grischa Perino, professor of economics at Universität Hamburg, has taken a closer look at the planned changes for the journal Nature Climate Change. His conclusions: The changes...

26 February 2018|Research

Doctoral candidates want to improve healthcare

Photo: UHH/HCHE/Phillips

As part of the EU-funded Improving Quality of Care in Europe (IQCE) European Training Network, a total of 15 doctoral candidates from all over the world are developing concepts to improve the European healthcare system. Six European partner universities are offering the program, including...

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