Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Religious Studies researcher, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Burkhardt.

Comics as an educational media in the classroom are nothing special these days. This was not always the case: in the 1950s, they had a bad reputation and their use in the classroom was unimaginable. As part of her doctorate at the Faculty of Education, Anna Strunk is researching how comics...

The University of Hamburg is the scientific home to over 6,200 researchers. Every 2 weeks, we offer a glimpse into their work in the Hamburger Abendblatt. In this edition of the column, Prof. Dr. Ingrid Schröder explains how the perception of Low German has changed over the past centuries.

The University of Hamburg is the scientific home to over 6,200 researchers. Every 2 weeks, we offer a glimpse into their work in the Hamburger Abendblatt. In this issue, Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner explains how we can follow the dynamics of T-cells in real time.

Memes have become an integral part of communication, primarily in social media. But how exactly does the interplay of text and image create meaning? Prof. Dr. Stefan Hinterwimmer’ project Visual and Non-Visual Expression of Perspective, Part 2 investigates this with funding from the German Research...

Dr. Thea Lautenschläger, scientific director of the the University of Hamburg’s Loki Schmidt Garden, and Dr. Manfred Finckh from the Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology have now published a study in Nature Ecology and Evolution revealing the dramatic loss of a special forest region in South...

Our brain is inconceivably complex and it changes every moment of our lives. In the Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science, Prof. Dr. Nicolas Schuck looks at what happens neurally when we experience things and remember. In the interview below, the professor of cognitive neurosciences with...

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: educational scientist Prof. Dr. Gabriel Nagy.