Interviews

Prof. Stacey Lee’s areas of specialty are law, ethics, and the health system. Ms. Lee teaches and researches at the crossroads of these fields at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. During her 2-week visit at Universität Hamburg, Lee explored new possibilities for cooperation between...

To celebrate Universität Hamburg’s 100th anniversary, the city is hosting a “summer of knowledge” at Ratshausmarkt, in front of Hamburg’s City Hall, from 20 to 23 June. Other Hamburg universities and research institutions, as well as over 70 researchers from Universität Hamburg, will be joining the...

Die Uni Hamburg wird 100 – und die Deutsch-Französische Hochschule (DFH) 20 Jahre alt! Im Jubiläumsjahr beider Einrichtungen freut sich die Universität Hamburg besonders, vom 12. bis 14. Juni 2019 eine große Doppelveranstaltung der DFH an der Universität Hamburg begrüßen zu dürfen: die Versammlung...

Expertise like that produced at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS)” is essential in order to convince skeptics at the international political level of the reality of climate change, underscored Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas during his...

At the ceremony to celebrate Universität Hamburg’s 100th anniversary, astronaut Alexander Gerst was made an honorary senator. In return, Gerst presented a University banner that he had taken with him into space. In his speech, he advocated for pioneering exploration.

Universität Hamburg celebrates its 100th anniversary, exactly 100 years to the day after its official opening. Over 1,400 guests, including many honorary guests and prominent alumni, attended the ceremony while several thousand University members let their hair down at the Campus party.

Today, Universität Hamburg hosts its grandest celebration yet: Its opening, exactly 100 years ago today, on 10 May 1919. The ceremony includes Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, president of the German Bundestag and Universität Hamburg alumnus. At the same time, a large celebration was taking place across the...

Construction of the high-tech business incubator, a joint project of the City of Hamburg, DESY, and Universität Hamburg, is the first milestone for Science City Bahrenfeld.

In the most recent international University Impact Ranking conducted by Times Higher Education (THE), Universität Hamburg has ranked 60th. Above all, the University has been recognized for implementing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in exemplary fashion.

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.

Hamburg has acquired a Leibniz Science Campus: InterACt—which stands for “integrated analysis of pathogen-induced compartments”—is a cooperative project to strengthen connections between The Heinrich Pette Institute Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI) and Universität Hamburg in the...

A century ago today, the Hamburg parliament decided to found a university, and thus make Hamburg a hub for education. The Senate is celebrating this event with a reception in the ceremonial hall of City Hall. The guest list included many luminaries from academia, politics, society, business and...

Application is an important part of information technology. To advance applications, the Informatikum at Universität Hamburg runs the creative lab base.camp. With support from the Department of Informatics, students can develop their own programming and software ideas. The first projects since...

The exhibition “Die Zeit war reif—100 Jahre Bildung und Lernen in Hamburg” has now opened: it takes a look at a century of education and learning in Hamburg. The exhibition introduces Hamburg’s 5 large educational institutions and examines what it takes to turn a city into a thriving educational...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) and Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research have selected Stefan Aykut from Universität Hamburg’s Department of Socioeconomics as one of ten recipients of this year’s Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize. Valued at 20,000 euros, the prize is generally...

For the first time, researchers have conducted a nationwide study to gather comprehensive data on working and living conditions for doctoral candidates and doctoral graduates. Over 50,000 doctoral candidates nationwide have been invited to take part in an online survey.

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is one of the world’s leading climate research initiatives. Effective immediately, Prof. Detlef Stammer from the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) at Universität Hamburg will be chairing the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, an...

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...

It is now official—the future project Science City Bahrenfeld is due to start in 2020. The aim: to strengthen Hamburg as a hub for science! And to offer the greatest minds in Hamburg and worldwide a creative, attractive, and sustainable space to learn, teach, research, live, and work. A project that...