Research

3 April 2025|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Katharina Förster strengthens the Department of Psychology.

Photo: Picture People

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: psychologist and psychotherapist Prof. Dr. Katharina Förster.

1 April 2025|Research

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen strengthens the Humanities.

Photo: University of Hamburg / Esfandiari

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: music psychologist Prof. Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen

17 March 2025|Research

Research project: How Can We Make Climate Protection Financing Sustainable?

Two hands holding a small plant growing from a pile of coins

Photo: pexels/Akil Mazumder

For a new project, a University of Hamburg research team will connect with the financial sector to develop innovative financing and investment strategies in tackling the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. As part of a research alliance with the University of Kassel project receives...

11 March 2025|Research

Doing the Research series: Creating AI to Reflect Cultural Diversity

Ai-generated images of a French person—on the left using German as prompt language, on the right Japanese.

Photo: University of Hamburg

More and more companies and private individuals are using generative AI such as ChatGPT or Dall-E. However, the data that forms the basis for the results being generated do not reflect the world’s entire population equally. Prof. Dr. Anne Lauscher and Carolin Holtermann (University of Hamburg...

26 February 2025|Research

New Database Helps Sports Teachers Find Digital Tools

Photo: Spodigi

The Spodigi-Tools database should make it easier for sports teachers to use digital tools in their classes. The database was developed by researchers at the Universities of Hamburg and Wuppertal. In the upcoming months, it will undergo live testing and evaluation so that teachers can make the best...

21 February 2025|Research

“Gender-Equitable Perspectives in Theological Textbooks Cannot Be Assumed”

Catharina Regina Baroness of Greiffenberg

Photo: University of Hamburg / Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel: Portr. II 1988.3

Feminist and diversity-oriented research approaches are firmly anchored in many disciplines. PD Dr. Frank A. Kurzmann from the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Hamburg is investigating how to also implement them in theology. Among other things, he organized a workshop on the...

6 February 2025|Research

The Media and Polarization in Europe

Photo: Meyer/Pröschel

Even established democracies such as Germany are becoming increasingly polarized and endangered by the conflicts polarization creates. The role of the media in this process is the focus of 2 research projects being conducted by the Professorship for Climate Communication at the Faculty of Business...

28 January 2025|Research

How Botanists Help Identify Origins of Victims of the Slave Trade

A map of strontium isotope ratios in Africa

Photo: Nature Communications

From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, more than 12.5 million Africans were trafficked to the New World as part of the transatlantic slave trade. Where the enslaved people came from and what transportion they had to endure in Africa is still largely unknown. In an international project...

22 January 2025|Research

Success: 11 University of Hamburg Projects Get State Research Funding

Photo: University of Hamburg / von Wieding

From smart cities and history teaching to AI-based infection and autoimmune research: 16 research projects from a wide range of disciplines were selected for the fourth round of state research funding. Eleven of them will be implemented at the University of Hamburg.

20 January 2025|Research

Doing the Research: How Can School Teaching Effectively Provide Informatics Knowledge?

A teacher explains to pupils on their laptop the functionality of an application

Photo: Drazen Zigic via Getty Images

From 1 August 2025, informatics will be a required subject in all Hamburg secondary schools. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Sandra Schulz at the Faculty of Education, Moritz Kreinsen and the Informatics Education subject group team are researching which methods can effectively provide school...

13 January 2025|Research

The Most Poisonous Spider in the World includes 3 Different Species

Stephanie Frances Loria, Dr. Danilo Harms, and Svea-Celina Frank

Photo: University of Hamburg/Esfandiari

The Sydney funnel web spider is one of the most poisonous spiders in the world. One international research team, which includes the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change and the University of Hamburg, has now found out that this spider is a complex of 3 species that includes a...

4 December 2024|Research

Doing the Research series: Can People Born Blind Learn to See?

Photo: Sebastian Engels

Our brain can adapt to changing conditions throughout life, but some processes are only possible in the developing brain. Within a German-Indian collaborative project, Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder, a professor of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, investigates whether people born blind can learn...

4 December 2024|Research

STEM Success in Elementary Schools Despite Corona

Attendees at the press conference for the publication of the TIMSS 2023 study

Photo: UHH/Constanze Koschwitz

The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) for 2023 given to fourth graders in Germany shows consistent performance in mathematics and the natural sciences when compared to 2019, despite pandemic restrictions in 2020 and 2021. This is one of the studies presented in Berlin on...

25 November 2024|Research

New Collaborative Research Center for Liver Research

Prof. Dr. Maura Dandri and Prof. Dr. Christoph Schramm

Photo: UKE

The German Research Foundation has approved a new collaborative research center for liver research. The new CRC 1700 will focus on the regulation of immune responses in the liver that are vital to the health of the entire organism. The new research focus, involving researchers from the University of...

20 November 2024|Research

Third Grant for Internationalization of Teacher Training

Students working together in a hybrid meeting

Photo: University of Hamburg / von Wieding

Another University of Hamburg project succeeded in the third round of the German Academic Exchange Service’s (DAAD) Lehramt.International program. INTER will further develop 2 previous projects and strengthen topics such as interculturality and diversity in teacher training.

18 November 2024|Research

More than €11 Million: 2 University of Hamburg Research Training Groups Extended

The Main Building of the University in the fall

Photo: University of Hamburg / Schell

Decision-making and negotiation processes in societies and the carbon cycle in large estuary rivers—the University of Hamburg was granted funding for economics and biology research from the German Research Foundation (DFG). Two research training groups will be funded for a further 4.5 years.

12 November 2024|Research

COLDSPOT: € 2.14 million to research greenhouse gas reduction in the Arctic

A tundra landscape in the Canadian Arctic near Inuvik

Photo: UHH/Voigt

Rising temperatures, vanishing ice mass, warmer water and air temperatures—the effects of the world’s climate changes are especially notable in the Arctic, where they also impact the biological and chemical cycles in the soil. Dr. Carolina Voigt will now use an ERC Starting Grant to research the...

12 November 2024|Research

New EU collaborative project: Networks and the Rule of Law

Part of the mission statement on the University’s Main Building

Photo: University of Hamburg/Esfandiari

The rule of law has to be defended again and again. The role that human networks such as clubs or associations play to strengthen or weaken the rule of law is now being studied in the project NET-ROL: Networks and the Rule of Law: Uncovering Socioeconomic Outcomes. Prof. Dr. Stefan Voigt and Prof...

7 November 2024|Research

Understanding “Seebären” and other phenomena: Researchers calculate global tsunami risk

Photo: University of Hamburg/Behrens

Tsunamis do not only occur in distant oceans but also in the North and Baltic Seas. Prof. Dr. Jörn Behrens, professor of numerical methods in geosciences in the Department of Mathematics and the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), investigates how to calculate these...

1 November 2024|Research

Doing the Research: How Can Multinational Companies Make Their Supply Chains More Sustainable?

Graphics display of various supply chain members

Photo: University of Hamburg/Allenbacher/Berg

Companies are urged to take more responsibility for human rights violations and environmental standards in their supply chains. Janine Allenbacher and Prof. Dr. Nicola Berg from the University of Hamburg Business School investigate how companies can make their supply chains more sustainable and...

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