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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

Visualisierung des Coronavirus

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.