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01.12.2025|Research
Funding for Long-Term Research Project on Middle Low German Grammar
Middle Low German text culture is an integral part of northern Europe’s cultural heritage. A new long-term research project on Middle Low German grammar will deepen our understanding of the linguistic structures of Middle Low German. The goal for the next 18 years is to establish a multidimensional...
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24.11.2025|Campus
From Cube Ninja to City Hopper: Have Fun, Stay Fit While Studying
Whether with someone else or alone, you can have fun, and for free, with the 8 movement games in the ExerRise project designed by researchers at the Institute of Human Movement Science and their project partners. The goal is to foster student health and wellbeing on a scientifically sound basis. The...
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24.11.2025|In Focus
University of Hamburg Researchers Fortify German-Language Data Science Community
Research with large quantities of data has become relevant to more and more disciplines. This is why researchers from 21 German and Austrian research institutions, including the University of Hamburg, are now demanding greater political and scientific commitment to digital and data science.
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17.11.2025|Excellence Strategy
The German Physical Society Honors University of Hamburg Physicist
The German Physical Society has awarded Prof. Dr. Andrea Cavalleri the Stern-Gerlach Medal for outstanding work in experimental physics. Cavalleri is the leading researcher in the Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Images of Matter at the University of Hamburg.
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12.11.2025|Research
€2 Million for Research on Migratory Bird Navigation
An important, still unanswered question in quantum biology is how biomagnetic perception, which migratory animals use for navigation, works. A research team headed by Prof. Dr. Michael Thorwart at the University of Hamburg believes that the retinal molecule in the eyes of migratory birds and insects...
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10.11.2025|Excellence Strategy
“Belém is a signal.”
In the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), Brazilian-born sociology professor Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse is researching how international climate conferences work. He is taking part as an observer in this year’s UN Climate Change Conference in his native country, and...
Portrait of Prof. Dr. Nina Mackert

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07.11.2025|Campus
Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Nina strengthens the Humanities.
Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: historian Prof. Dr. Nina Mackert
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06.11.2025|Excellence Strategy
Ultrafast meets ultrashort: CUI team receives prestigious ERC Synergy Grant
A research team in the Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter at the University of Hamburg and DESY has been awarded the prestigious Synergy Grant from the European Research Council. It will receive €14 million to combine atomic-scale imaging with attosecond science, the most advanced...
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Cluster of Excellence CLICCS: Video Insights Into Climate Research

Where does the carbon go when Earth continues to warm – and what makes us more likely to practice climate protection? Two experts present their inspiring research at the University of Hamburg