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15 December 2022|Press release

Hate Speech, Antisemitism, and History in Social Networks

Project logo

Photo: SocialMediaHistory

How does the representation of history in social media affect how people see the world? That is what an exhibition in the SocialMediaHistory series is investigating. YouTuber and Terra-X moderator Mirko Drotschamnn is also taking part.
29 November 2022|Press release

Substantial Funding to Complete Research Project on Hebrew Terminology

Hebrew commentary on Euclid’s <i>Elements</i>

Photo: State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky, Codex Levy 113, fol. 50v/51r

As part of the long-term project PESHAT in Context, researchers have been studying the philosophical and scientific terminology of pre-modern Hebrew. In a fourth funding phase, they have now received another €960,000 from the German Research Foundation, to be used from 2023 to 2025. In total, the...
27 October 2022|Press release

Researchers Determine Unreported Corona Cases Using Search Analysis

Woman wearing a mask and working at her laptop

Photo: pixabay/Engin_Akyurt

The number of corona cases in the pandemic is a very important parameter. The number of unreported COVID-19 infections in Germany is generally seen as high, but how can we know for sure? Christina Maaß from the Department of Economics at Universität Hamburg has developed a new way to find out the...
26 October 2022|Press release

Children’s University Lectures 2022 featuring Six Exciting Lectures

Children in front of the University Main Building

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Frank von Wieding

Covering a huge range of topics and finally back, live and in person! The Children’s University Lectures are back, and after a 2 year hiatus because of corona, we are going back to the Audimax for 4 of the 6 lectures. The series kicks off online on 1 November with 2 video lectures, then the live...
25 October 2022|Press release

“How It All Began— Of Galaxies, Quarks, and Collisions: A Trip to the Beginnings of the Universe

Exhibition poster

Photo: Universität Hamburg

“Where do we come from and where are we going?” “Does the Universe have a beginning and end?” The multimedia special exhibition, How It All Began at the Museum of Work gives visitors insight into the Big Bang and the endlessness of outer space (23 October 2022 to 10 April 2023).
24 October 2022|Press release

Two Collections and the University Museum in #seeforfree 2022

University Museum exhibition

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Plessing / Scheiblich

On 31 October, you can once again visit and discover more than 30 Hamburg museums free of charge. This year, the University Museum, the Computer Museum, and the Plaster Cast Collection of the Archaeological Institute will be taking part, offering a varied program.
12 October 2022|Press release

Two million euros for new research group studying the use of pronouns

Board with various personal pronouns

Photo: pixabay/Altmann

We, you, it: everyday, each one of us uses pronouns, but how do we use them when? Now a team of researchers wants to find out and is receiving funding from the German Research Foundation to do so. The group Praktiken der Personenreferenz: Personal-, Indefinit- und Demonstrativpronomen im Gebrauch...
11 October 2022|Press release

Universität Hamburg Invites You to the Digital Start of the Open Study Program

Lecturer at the lectern

Photo: UHH/vonWieding

The Open Study Program is a public educational program that the University offers to people of all ages. In Winter Semester 2022/23, the public can choose from over 400 lectures and seminars, in person or online.
5 October 2022|Press release

Universität Hamburg team measures the uptake of co-enzymes by individual cells.

capillaries,

Photo: XX

Within the framework of a contract to conduct research into human skin cells, a research team at Universität Hamburg, together with the Frauenhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research (IAP), DESY, and the Beiersdorf corporation, measured how much co-enzyme Q10 cells had taken up. This research...
4 October 2022|Press release

Public lectures at Universität Hamburg started on 17 October

Lecture in a lecture hall

Photo: UHH/vonWieding

If you are interested in science, research, politics, culture, and society, check out the General Lecture Series at Universität Hamburg. In Winter Semester 2022/2023, Universität Hamburg offers roughly 160 public lectures on various topics. The lectures begin on 17 October 2022 and end February...
28 September 2022|Press release

Gigantic Radio Sources Discovered in the Universe—Up to 10 Million Light Years in Size

An artist’s impression of the vast space of the universe above the LOFAR telescope— the inset shows a magnified image of a galaxy cluster where a megahalo is being observed with LOFAR.

Photo: ASTRON/Cuciti/Vazza/Gheller

An international research team led by the Hamburg Observatory of Universität Hamburg has discovered 4 gigantic radio sources. These so-called megahalos are up to 10 million light years in size but have been detected for the first time with the help of the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope...
23 September 2022|Press release

ERC Starting Grant for research on quantum twists: New Paths in Quantum Technology

Dr. Thore Posske

Photo: UHH/MIN/Fuchs

Twisting quantum systems so much that they are generally more stable in the face of external disturbances and can be built into quantum computers— this is the goal of Dr. Thore Posske from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg. Posske, who is also a Young Investigator Group Leader at The...
22 September 2022|Press release

Hamburg dreht das: Universität Hamburg Supports City’s Energy-Saving Initiative

Energy-saving initiative logo

Photo: FHH

Together with businesses, public institutions, and members of the public, Universität Hamburg is taking part in the City’s energy-saving initiative introduced today. The goal is to prevent power shortages throughout the city this winter and to reduce energy consumption by 15 percent. The University...
21 September 2022|Press release

Calling on members of the public for a workshop in Hamburg: History on TikTok—Truth or Lie?

SocialMediaHistory

Photo: SocialMediaHistory

TikTok is one of the most successful platforms on the Internet—everyday, videos on history and politics are also uploaded and shared with thousands of viewers. The SocialMediaHistory project will bring together members of the public to study these videos. If you are interested, you are invited to...
21 September 2022|Press release

Study of the Australian ant-slayer: Acrobatic hunting strategy helps spider catches dangerous prey

The spiders are only half the size of their ant prey

Photo: Alfonso Aceves-Aparicio

For the first time, a research team involving the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg assisted by detailed behavior analyses have shown how the Australian ant-spider, Euryopis umbilicata, can catch prey that is significantly larger than itself. This hunting technique includes an acrobatic...
20 September 2022|Press release

New EU funding: 4.9 Million Euro for Calculating Fluid Dynamics

Portrait Dieter Jaksch

Photo: Oxford Martin School, Fisher Studios

Quantum technologies promise faster solutions for many scientific and technology questions. A consortium led by Prof. Dr. Dieter Jaksch from Universität Hamburg awarded EUR 4.9 million EU funding for the calculation of fluid dynamics using quantum technology.
14 September 2022|Press release

Universität Hamburg Presents Plans for In-Person Operations

Picture of the main building of Universität Hamburg with energy saving symbols.

Photo: UHH/Vogiatzis

After the restrictions on students and staff enforced by the coronavirus pandemic in terms of teaching, researching, and in administration in the last two and a half years, Universität Hamburg has taken a clear position for the Winter Semester: University operations will take place in-person. As...
8 September 2022|Press release

The rhythm of knowledge exchange: Opening of the Temporary History Lab Hamburg Musical Histor/ies

Musical memorabilia

Photo: Pixabay

In collaboration with Hamburg residents, Universität Hamburg is hunting for traces, to write a new and more diverse version of musical cultural history in Hamburg. For this, they are opening a temporary history lab in the University museum on 16 September. The lab combines research in real time with...
26 August 2022|Press release

63 modern apartments: Foundations laid for new Gästehaus der Universität Hamburg

Filling the time capsule (from left) Katharina Fegebank, Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, and Stephan Dittrich

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

Whether for international doctoral researchers, visiting scholars, or new appointments from abroad: Universität Hamburg will be able to welcome them all to a new Gästehaus. Right next to the Museum am Rothenbaum—Kulture und Künste der Welt (MARKK) and thus also close to many University buildings and...
23 August 2022|Press release

Information on Universität Hamburg’s Open Study Program

Students in the lecture hall

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Frank von Wieding

The Center for Continuing Studies is providing information about Universität Hamburg’s Open Study Program on 1 September 2022. The Open Study Program welcomes people of all ages interested in learning. The information day will include information via Zoom and consultation by telephone.
19 August 2022|Press release

Due to drought and heat: young trees in Hamburg left high and dry

Newly planted tree in the center of Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Schütt

Hamburg has roughly 250,000 trees. Every year, many are chopped down and new ones are planted. At 17 new sites, a team from Universität Hamburg has looked at the availability of ground water. Their conclusion: All trees suffered from a lack of water that could shorten their lives.
18 August 2022|Press release

Researchers Discover Naturally Occurring Substances Against Coronavirus

Dr. Vasundara Srinivasan in the lab

Photo: UHH/Gevorgyan

Researchers at Universität Hamburg and DESY have identified 3 substances that are promising for the development of anti-corona medication. All of the substances have already been used in medications, writes the team in its article in Communications Biology.
11 August 2022|Press release

Salary, language skills, or character: What helped families in the corona crisis?

Girl working on computer at home

Photo: Pixabay CC0

What factors determined how well families mastered the challenges of the corona pandemic? And what impact did social inequality have? A new study at Universität Hamburg has some answers.
8 August 2022|Press release

Otto Waalkes, Udo Lindenberg and friends on the Universität Hamburg stage

Unifant in front of the Audimax

Photo: UHH/Dingler/Wohlfahrt + Otto

At 8 pm on 15 September 2022, exactly 50 years after Otto’s legendary concert in the Audimax at Universität Hamburg, Hamburg’s music greats are heading back to the University’s stage with their show “Get Back To Audimax!”. In collaboration with the University, the largest lecture hall on campus will...
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

A fin whale in in the Antarctic

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?

The Universität Hamburg Main Building

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

Newborn and parent

Photo: Pixabay

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

Key visual for the event

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

The Ukrainian flag with the Universität Hamburg logo in front of the Main Building

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

Beer mat from Science on Tap

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

Coronavirus image

Photo: Pixabay

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

Lecture series logo

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

Headphones

Photo: pixabay/cegoh

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

The Audimax

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

MR image of a 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

Photo: rawpixel

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

Someone donating blood

Photo: Pixabay

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

Symbolic image AI consultation

Photo: Adobe Stock/Gorodenkoff

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

Portrait of Dr. Gunnar Jeremias

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

Dr. David Reutter

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

Main Building of the University

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

Lecture in a lecture hall

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

Abrüstungsübung

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 &amp; 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

Learning with a laptop and a book

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

Project logo

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

Fossils

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

The Universität Hamburg Main Building

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

Portrait Egils Levits

Photo: Private

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

Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta

Photo: privat

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

The Universität Hamburg Main Building

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

Coronavirus vaccine

Photo: Pixabay

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

Wissen für alle portal

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.

Prof. Dr. Tais Gorkhover

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...