Interviews

The Universität Hamburg “UHH global app” is now available for free download from the App Store and Google Play Store. The English-language app is another Universität Hamburg service aimed at international users to provide quick access to key information and services at the university.

The Low Frequency Array, also known as LOFAR, is an innovative digital radio telescope based in The Netherlands and spanning 6 European countries. Universität Hamburg and the University of Bielefeld also have a LOFAR receiving station in Norderstedt. In our video, Prof. Dr. Marcus Brüggen and...

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken from Universität Hamburg with the renowned Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Berlin. Prof. van Aaken is recognized internationally as a distinguished expert in the field of economic analysis of law. She investigates...

Thanks to a novel method, the quality of seasonal forecasts for the winter in many parts of Europe can now be significantly improved. To date, reliable forecasts could mostly be made for the Tropics. A team led by Dr. Mikhail Dobrynin and Prof. Johanna Baehr from Universität Hamburg’s Center for...

The EU has once again reformed its emissions trading system—even though the previous reform had yet to go into effect. Grischa Perino, professor of economics at Universität Hamburg, has taken a closer look at the planned changes for the journal Nature Climate Change. His conclusions: The changes...

For the third consecutive year the ERC has granted Prof. Roland Wiesendanger, head of the Scanning Probe Methods Group in the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg, a €2.5 million ERC Advanced Grant.

In 2019 the University will be celebrating its 100th anniversary. On 28 March 1919 Hamburg Parliament resolved to establish the Hamburgische Universität. The celebration depends upon the ideas and commitment of the University’s members, so we are inviting you to join our initial activities and...

One year from today, on 28 March 2019, Universität Hamburg will be celebrating its 100th anniversary! On 28 March 1919 a new democratically elected Hamburg Parliament resolved in its first session to establish a university in Hamburg. This makes Universität Hamburg the first university in Germany to...

Gravitational force, life force, work force, buying force, creative force, the force of art—our concepts of force are not restricted to the natural sciences, but are also central to a number of cultural spheres, not least aesthetics. The new DFG-funded Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities and...

Following last year's successful Particles, Strings and Cosmology summer school pilot program, 3 new international programs on climate change, health economics, and physics will be offered this upcoming summer. The goal is to attract gifted young people from all over the world to Hamburg, where they...

More than 400 research projects currently involving about 240 scientists and scholars at Universität Hamburg have a connection to the topic of sustainability. What projects these are and who is working on them—find out using the new interactive Sustainability Research Map, online now.

As part of the EU-funded Improving Quality of Care in Europe (IQCE) European Training Network, a total of 15 doctoral candidates from all over the world are developing concepts to improve the European healthcare system. Six European partner universities are offering the program, including...

Where does an artwork come from? Who traded or plundered it, or who might have destroyed it? And to whom does it rightfully belong? Provenance research is an art history discipline concerned with the origins of art objects. At Universität Hamburg, Gesa Jeuthe has been appointed to the Liebelt...

According to the Student Statistics Office 1,555 international students were enrolled in Winter Semester 2017/2018. During the same period the total number of international students at the University rose from 5,313 in the previous year to 5,433. Duy Linh Nguyen, who hails from Vietnam, is one of...

We only recycle a small amount of plastics such as PET (polyethylene terephthalate), used to make bottles and packaging. Most ends up in the environment, where it takes a very long time to decompose. According to the German Environment Agency (UBA), it takes up to 450 years for a plastic bottle to...

Extreme gusts of wind of more than 40 km per hour are common on Hamburg’s footpaths. Measurements undertaken by Professor Felix Ament and Dr. Sarah Wiesner from the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) at Universität Hamburg demonstrate this. Their current measuring campaign has...

Third Anneliese Maier Research Award for Universität Hamburg: the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded an Anneliese Maier Research Award worth 250,000 euros to Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller. The sociolinguist researches at Australia’s Macquarie University in the field of intercultural...

The Desis bobmarleyi is a new species of spider discovered in the corals of Australia. The spider has now been described for the first time in Evolutionary Systematics, the scientific journal published by the Center of Natural History (CeNak). We asked spider researcher Dr. Danilo Harms why the...

Mangroves, salt-water tolerant trees with characteristically high root systems, grow all along the coast of the South Pacific island of Fiji. Yet the data we have on how these mangrove forests store carbon is sparse. Fiji, the Pacific nation taking the lead in climate change, is at pains to close...