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11 November 2019|Research

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

Office of the DFG

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

Anja Augsdörfer

Photo: Private

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?

Black hole in the Messier 87 Galaxy

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?

Jennifer Krückeberg

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...