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13 July 2022|Research

Doing the Research: The Swedish key to mythology

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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?

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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?

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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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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

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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...

7 April 2022|Research

Doing the Research: Studying and optimizing digital innovation processes

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When companies develop products with digital and non-digital components, they face special challenges. As part of an international research collective at the Faculty of Business (Hamburg Business School), Dr. Theresa Bockelmann is studying how such hybrid processes can work. Our series Doing the...

10 March 2022|Research

Doing the Research: New perspectives on spoken and written multilingualism

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Read Turkish, write in German, and Twitter in English: many children from non-ethnic German backgrounds can read and write in several languages. Dr. Irina Usanova and Dr. Birger Schnoor from the Faculty of Education are studying mutually influencing languages and their usability on the labor market.

24 February 2022|Research

Doing the Research: How to design sustainable financial markets?

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To reach climate goals, people working in politics, the corporate sector, and society must work hand-in-hand. This is also true for the sustainable design of financial markets. Prof. Dr. Wolf-Georg Ringe, professor of law and finance at Universität Hamburg, is studying how to exploit markets for the...

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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...

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