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7 June 2022|Press release

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

Coronavirus image

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

Someone donating blood

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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

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

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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 & 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

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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

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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

Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta

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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

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

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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

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

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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...