Interviews

Despite extensive security precautions taken by Universität Hamburg, today, the second lecture on macroeconomics delivered by Prof. Dr. Bernd Lucke was interrupted and had to be canceled. On this, the Executive University Board issued the following statement:

Events surrounding Prof. Dr. Bernd Lucke resumption of teaching duties have concerned students and staff at Universität Hamburg as well as the media. University management has been confronted with many questions which we have put together and answered below.

The new exhibition on Universität Hamburg’s past and present gives an exciting glimpse into 100 years of teaching, research, campus life, and university culture. It also reveals a University that reflects Germany’s own eventful history.

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has authorized funding for a new DFG center for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences at Universität Hamburg: Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity—Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in...

From 17–20 September 2019, the Department of International Affairs at Universität Hamburg invited all its all strategic and key international university partners to attend a conference at Universität Hamburg. The conference was attended by participants from 18 universities from 13 countries, with...

How do our senses, like vision, hearing, and touch, work together to create the perception of the world around us? A new study by scientists at Universität Hamburg finds that commonly found associations between shapes and sounds might rely on childhood vision. The results were published in the...

The Universität Hamburg receives around 500,000 euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a spectrograph and supports its acquisition with a further 500,000 euros. The device is intended for an astronomical instrument in Chile that will be used in the future to conduct so-called galaxy...

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...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Emmy Noether junior research group at the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg that aims to systematically analyse, summarise and improve various theories in solid state physics. The junior research group will receive funding of...

It is now official: Universität Hamburg is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. What, however, does that mean for Universität Hamburg? What steps can or must it now take? Where will it go from here? The University’s president, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Lenzen, explains what it means...

Today in Bonn, the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, announced which German universities will be funded through the Excellence Strategy — Universität Hamburg is one of the selected few and will belong, as of November 2019, to the Universities of Excellence group.

Universität Hamburg is a University of Excellence. The official announcement was made by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, today in Bonn. The announcement was enthusiastically followed by many delighted members of the University via livestream.

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...

Anna Biggs studies mathematics and physics at Harvard University. In 2018, the twenty-year-old completed a research internship of several months with the Emmy Noether Group of Dr. Murad Alim at the Department of Mathematics at Universität Hamburg. Now she is back in Hamburg to finish a publication...

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.