Press releases

18 July 2022|Press release

Universität Hamburg’s Research Data at a Glance

Notebook showing the new research portal

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Engels

Who does research on what at Universität Hamburg? What research projects are there and what international cooperation is being pursued? The research information portal provides researchers, companies, and the interested public a detailed overview.

8 July 2022|Press release

Historical astronomical photographs: preserving the past for the future

A view of the cupboard holding the photographic plates at the Hamburg Observatory— in the foreground a photographic plate from 1913.

Photo: UHH/MIN/Fuchs

Ten years ago, researchers at Universität Hamburg jointly initiated a research alliance to digitalize astronomical photographic plates in high resolution, publish these online, and make them available for current research. Now, 121,860 scans and 94,090 photographic plates later, the project funded...

7 July 2022|Press release

Study Shows Recovery of the Fin Whale in the Antarctic for the First Time

Photo: Dan Beecham

Thanks to industrial whaling, the fin whale had become nearly extinct in the Antarctic. Now, for the first time, a research team headed by Dr. Helena Herr from Universität Hamburg has been able to show systematically that the fin whale population is recovering. The findings were published in the...

4 July 2022|Press release

The Hamburg Forum for Global Science and Policy: What is Academia’s Responsibility in Times of Complex Crises?

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schell

Most recently, the outbreak of war in Ukraine has made it clear that geopolitical changes and international crises fundamentally affect global academic systems, activity at universities, research institutions, and academic policy. While the war’s direct practical implications and those for academic...

1 July 2022|Press release

EU Funding for Collaborative Project on Paid Parental Leave

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What is required if parental leaves laws are to contribute to a sustainable society? And what does paid parental leave mean for children’s health and development? The Parental Leave Policies and Social Sustainability project takes a look at these very questions. Social scientists Dr. Thordis Reimer...

28 June 2022|Press release

Science slam and film program to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson

Photo: Laura Vogiatzis

On 4 July, the discovery of the Higgs boson particle celebrated its tenth anniversary. Many German universities and institutes took part, including DESY and Universität Hamburg. With Higgs@10 in Hamburg, DESY and Universität Hamburg commemorate the discovery of the Higgs boson particle in 2012...

23 June 2022|Press release

Hamburg Foundations Throw a Line to Researchers from Ukraine with €100,000

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

There is now further support for researchers who wish to leave Ukraine for a university in Hamburg: 5 Hamburg foundations are providing a total of €100,000. The funding is being offered as part of an effort, coordinated by Universität Hamburg, to help researchers within the Hamburg program for...

21 June 2022|Press release

CLICCS study Climate Change has Cause a Huge Warm Pool in the Pacific

This image shows the rise in water temperatures in the northeast Pacific Ocean from 1996 to 2021 (Pacific warming pool). Measurements are provided in Celsius (rise per decade). The white outline stands for the marine heat wave 2019–2021 that lies in the warming pool region.

Photo: UHH/CLICCS/A. Barkhordarian

A team of researchers in the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS) has just discovered a long-term, ever-warming pool of warm water. It measures 3 million square kilometers, can be traced back to human-induced rise in greenhouse gases, and provides favorable conditions...

15 June 2022|Press release

€3.5 Million for the Humanities at Universität Hamburg

Dr. Aaron Butts (left) and Dr. Yoav Meyrav

Photo: Dan Komoa for IAS / private

The European Research Council has awarded funding to 2 humanities projects. The projects on the history of Ethiopian and Syrian Christianity and Hebrew philosophical manuscripts respectively will receive a total of €3.5 million over the next 5 years.

14 June 2022|Press release

Science on Tap 2022

Photo: Universität Hamburg / DESY

How loud was the Big Bang? Men and the sniffles—myth or reality? Or: What do dosages and beer foam have to do with each other? At Science on Tap, researchers from Universität Hamburg and DESY provide answers to questions from their research. At 8 pm on 23 June, everything is set to go: after a...

7 June 2022|Press release

European COvid Survey (ECOS): Concerns about new mutations as vaccine willingness slightly decreases

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Two-thirds of the German population are concerned about new corona mutations; one-fifth of the population is very worried. At the same time, fewer and fewer people are prepared to renew their vaccinations, as the current representative European COvid Survey (ECOS) from May 2022 has revealed. The...

3 June 2022|Press release

New round of public lectures in the city

Photo: UHH

Head for the city! In a series of public lectures, Universität Hamburg researchers switch the classroom for more unusual venues to give their talks to the Hamburg public. The first dates have now been set.

2 June 2022|Press release

Study calls current salary model for music streaming services into question

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How should profits from music streaming services be paid out to artists? The discussion is never-ending because with the current model, users also pay for music they don’t listen to. A new study by marketing experts at Universität Hamburg and the Kühne Logistic University has now calculated the...

2 June 2022|Press release

The University's position on the occupation of the Audimax II

Photo: UHH

Since Monday, 30 May 2022, Last Generation activists have been occupying the University's Audimax II on the Von-Melle Campus.

20 May 2022|Press release

Early childhood experiences may lead to irreversible changes in the brain

Photo: UHH

Changes in the brain caused by early childhood experiences are not entirely irreversible. This is the conclusion reached in a recent study by researchers at Universität Hamburg, led by the psychologist and neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder.

18 May 2022|Press release

Cluster of excellence builds mobile laboratory

Container des Exzellenzclusters bei der Anlieferung

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

To study valuable manuscripts and other written artefacts around the world, the Understanding Written Artefacts cluster of excellence at Universität Hamburg has developed a mobile laboratory. The first mobile unit has now been delivered. In the fall, it will be sent to India so that researchers...

9 May 2022|Press release

Find funding for start-ups in Hamburg

Die Datenbank umfasst mehr als 500 Förderinnen und Förderer

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Capital or advice, private or public: in Hamburg, there is a range of support for potential entrepreneurs who wish to launch a company. A new databank set up in the Faculty of Business Administration at Universität Hamburg is now offering a comprehensive and transparent overview.

3 May 2022|Press release

New study: Significant Decrease in Willingness to Donate Blood During Corona Pandemic

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Current calls for blood donations highlight the urgent need for blood. A new study at Universität Hamburg shows that the willingness to donate blood has dramatically decreased throughout the pandemic. The findings were published in the journal PLOS ONE.

8 April 2022|Press release

Funding from Federal Ministry: Medical appointments with a 3D avatar

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An interdisciplinary and pan-university team under the aegis of the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg will develop intelligent assistance systems designed to facilitate remote diagnosis. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is providing €1.8 million in funding to a...

7 April 2022|Press release

New collaborative project on chemical and biological weapons

Photo: G. Jeremias

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the development and availability of chemical and biological weapons has once again attracted renewed scrutiny. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is now funding a new research project on monitoring these types of weapons. The project is being...

6 April 2022|Press release

New Emmy Noether group researches topological quantum theories

Photo: Archive of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics

The German Research Foundation has awarded €1 million in funding to the early-career research group headed by Dr. David Reutter in the Department of Mathematics at Universität Hamburg. Reutter is researching mathematical theories that describe the behavior of fields in spaces with more than 3...

1 April 2022|Press release

Return to campus: Summer Semester 2022 begins at Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Lutsch

Since the beginning of the pandemic over 3 semesters ago, classes in the over 170 degree programs at Hamburg’s largest university took place almost entirely digitally, with in-person teaching resuming again only last winter semester. When the Summer Semester 2022 lecture period begins again on 4...

30 March 2022|Press release

Public lectures at Universität Hamburg begin on 4 April

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schell

If you are interested in science, research, politics, culture, and society, check out the General Lecture Series at Universität Hamburg. In Summer Semester 2022, the program includes roughly 70 public lectures on different topics. The lectures begin on 4 April and end in July 2022.

30 March 2022|Press release

With delegates from 12 countries: Exercise on nuclear disarmament

Photo: Forschungszentrum Jülich/Tobias Schlößer

On behalf of the Federal Foreign Office and the French ministry of defense and foreign affairs, researchers from the Carol Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Science and Peace Research at Universität Hamburg are organizing a multi-day exercise on controlled nuclear disarmament. Approximately 30...

29 March 2022|Press release

Haus der Lehre–Light & Schools receives Deutsche Universitätsstiftung Prize

The Haus der Lehre—side view There are 2 large pine trees outside.

Photo: Werner Huthmacher, Berlin

As part of the German awards competition for university architecture, the Deutsche Universitätsstiftung has awarded a prize for the building that houses the Light & Schools physics laboratory and the physics lab internships for advanced students. The building was completed 2 years ago in the...

29 March 2022|Press release

Opening event for the Open Study Program

Photo: UHH/Lutsch

Universität Hamburg’s Open Study Program is offering over 400 lectures and seminars, digital and in-person, in Summer Semester 2022. Prospective Open Study students are cordially invited to attend the opening event on 6 April.

24 March 2022|Press release

Seeking contemporary witnesses who fled the former German Democratic Republic

Photo: UHH/Steffen

For a project at Universität Hamburg, researchers are seeking contemporary witnesses who fled the former German Democratic Republic for Hamburg and wish to provide information about their arrival here. A digital city tour with personal recollections will be created for young people.

2 March 2022|Press release

Artificial Intelligence Decodes Causes of Mass Extinction in the Permian

Photo: W. Foster

Volcanic eruptions in Siberia caused massive climate change 252 million years ago. Approximately 75 percent of all land organisms and 90 percent of all ocean organisms perished. The paleontologist Dr. William Foster at the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) has now decoded the...

28 February 2022|Press release

Change in Leadership at Universität Hamburg: Hauke Heeren Becomes President

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schell

Starting today, Universität Hamburg has a new president: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren follows in the footsteps of Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Lenzen, who ended his second term of office at the end of February at the age of 74 and is now enjoying his retirement. Hauke Heeren, 51, left Freie...

25 February 2022|Press release

New Sky Map Showing 4.4 Million Galaxies Published

The coma cluster is 300 million light-years from Earth and consists of over 1,000 galaxies, shown here in radio and infrared fields. The radio data make the radiation from the high-energy particles that penetrate the magnetized space between galaxies visible.

Photo: Annalisa Bonafede

For 7 years, an international research team that included the Hamburg Observatory of Universität Hamburg gathered data for a new sky map depicting 4.4 million galaxies. Previously, these galaxies were unknown. The map has now been published in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics".

23 February 2022|Press release

Digital information day on the Open Study Program

Open Study Program students kick off the semester.

Photo: UHH/Asbeck

The Center for Continuing Studies is providing information online about Universität Hamburg’s Open Study Program on 2 March 2022. The information day will include talks via Zoom and consultation by telephone. All are welcome to attend.

21 February 2022|Press release

Hamburg Vigoni Forum Egils Levits gives first Hamburg Speech on Europe

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What holds Europe together? This is the question that opens the discussion for the Hamburg Vigoni Forum on research, policy, and society. The forum’s first Europa Conference will begin with a speech by the President of Latvia and alumnus of Universität Hamburg, Dr. h.c. Egils Levits.

15 February 2022|Press release

Future land loss: How Climate Change is Destroying Arctic Coasts

Ein großer Brocken Landmasse ist an einer arktischen Küste abgebrochen

Photo: AWI/P.Overduin

Global warming is causing permafrost in the Arctic to thaw and sea ice to melt. As a result, coasts are less protected and are being eroded, while carbon stored in the soil and carbon dioxide are being released into the ocean and atmosphere. In a first, researchers at Universität Hamburg have now...

9 February 2022|Press release

Team from Universität Hamburg develops real-time DNA recognition

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Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg and her team have received a grant of 150 000 euros from the European Research Council. The goal is to further develop nanodevices to be used for liquid biopsy, enabling faster and less invasive monitoring of many...

2 February 2022|Press release

Universität Hamburg Publishes Code of Academic Freedom

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Schell

Be it the disruption of controversial lectures or seminars, the refusal to engage in academic debate for political or religious reasons, or the exertion of politically motivated pressure on academics, there has recently been an increasing number of cases in which attempts have been made to curtail...

17 January 2022|Press release

New ECOS results Majority Support Mandatory Vaccination in Germany

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In Germany, 65 percent of people support mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 for all adults, while 60 percent are in favor of mandatory vaccination for all age groups, including children. These were the findings of the latest European COvid Survey (ECOS), which is conducted by the Hamburg Center...

13 January 2022|Press release

University Hamburg Kicks Off Wissen für alle

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Engels

Whether the Children’s University Lectures or continuing education, our new portal Wissen für alle allows the interested public to see all of the University’s knowledge exchange opportunities by target group, field, and format. For the official start, the University is publicizing the event with...

10 January 2022|Press release

Universität Hamburg researcher receives over €1.5 million in funding.

Photo: Private

When developing environmentally friendly chemicals or innovative material, you must be able to make exceptionally high-resolution images of processes in molecules and nanoparticles. Prof. Dr. Tais Gorkhover from Universität Hamburg is researching new image-producing procedures as part of her HIGH-Q...

Press releases

Universität Hamburg’s Research Data at a Glance

Historical astronomical photographs: preserving the past for the future

Study Shows Recovery of the Fin Whale in the Antarctic for the First Time

The Hamburg Forum for Global Science and Policy: What is Academia’s Responsibility in Times of Complex Crises?

EU Funding for Collaborative Project on Paid Parental Leave

Science slam and film program to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson

Hamburg Foundations Throw a Line to Researchers from Ukraine with €100,000

CLICCS study Climate Change has Cause a Huge Warm Pool in the Pacific

€3.5 Million for the Humanities at Universität Hamburg

Science on Tap 2022

European COvid Survey (ECOS): Concerns about new mutations as vaccine willingness slightly decreases

New round of public lectures in the city

Study calls current salary model for music streaming services into question

The University's position on the occupation of the Audimax II

Early childhood experiences may lead to irreversible changes in the brain

Cluster of excellence builds mobile laboratory

Find funding for start-ups in Hamburg

New study: Significant Decrease in Willingness to Donate Blood During Corona Pandemic

Funding from Federal Ministry: Medical appointments with a 3D avatar

New collaborative project on chemical and biological weapons

New Emmy Noether group researches topological quantum theories

Return to campus: Summer Semester 2022 begins at Universität Hamburg

Public lectures at Universität Hamburg begin on 4 April

With delegates from 12 countries: Exercise on nuclear disarmament

Haus der Lehre–Light &amp; Schools receives Deutsche Universitätsstiftung Prize

Opening event for the Open Study Program

Seeking contemporary witnesses who fled the former German Democratic Republic

Artificial Intelligence Decodes Causes of Mass Extinction in the Permian

Change in Leadership at Universität Hamburg: Hauke Heeren Becomes President

New Sky Map Showing 4.4 Million Galaxies Published

Digital information day on the Open Study Program

Hamburg Vigoni Forum Egils Levits gives first Hamburg Speech on Europe

Future land loss: How Climate Change is Destroying Arctic Coasts

Team from Universität Hamburg develops real-time DNA recognition

Universität Hamburg Publishes Code of Academic Freedom

New ECOS results Majority Support Mandatory Vaccination in Germany

University Hamburg Kicks Off Wissen für alle

Universität Hamburg researcher receives over €1.5 million in funding.

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Haus der Lehre–Light & Schools receives Deutsche Universitätsstiftung Prize