Interviews

9 July 2024|Press release

Classical Music, Beats, and the Cosmos: University Music Celebrates Its Second Festival at the Hamburg Observatory

Photo: Sternstunden Festival / Felix Beers

In cooperation with the Hamburg Observatory, University Music at the University of Hamburg invites the public to the second Sternstunden Festival on 19 and 20 July 2024. Visitors can expect all types of music and interesting academic contributions on the historical grounds of the Hamburg Observatory...

8 July 2024|Campus

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Mira Sievers strengthens the Faculty of Humanities

Photo: Dorothé Bogner

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time, it is the Islamic theologian Prof. Dr. Mira Sievers.

4 July 2024|Research

How Children Learn to Recognize Disinformation on Social Media

Photo: Pexels/Vanessa Loring

Children are constantly faced with disinformation, for example, about climate change, in social media. Prof. Dr. Dietmar Höttecke, professor of physics education in the Faculty of Education, and his team are studying how they can learn to assess facts correctly.

3 July 2024|Press release

Funding from the DFG: Grant for New Research Group, Extension for Another

Photo: UHH / Hansen

How and why do the perception and acceptance of political rules and institutions change? This is the hot-button question that a new research group on major structural change, headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. Lydia Mechtenberg from University of Hamburg, is asking. A research group in biology will also...

2 July 2024|Press release

Emissions Trading Also Creates Health Benefits

Photo: UHH/Grunau

The EU Emissions Trading System is not only good for reducing CO2 and for the climate. It also results in considerable health benefits due to reduced air pollution and saves hundreds of billions of euros, according to a recently released study by a team at Universität Hamburg.

2 July 2024|In Focus

Why Do Children and Adults Learn Differently?

Photo: Depositphotos

On 11 July 2024, at 6 pm University of Hamburg and the Hector Fellow Academy invite interested audiences to a symposium on secrets of the human brain. The event takes place in the Main Building of the University (ESA 1), lecture hall A and will also be shown via livestream.

1 July 2024|Campus

Robert Habeck Praises Research Project on 100 Years of University of Hamburg

Event at the end of 100 Jahre Universität Hamburg with Robert Habeck

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

The publication of the fourth volume marks the conclusion of the largest research and publication project on the history of the University of Hamburg. In his speech, the economics minister and vice chancellor Dr. Robert Habeck expressed his awe at the undertaking and talked about his own past...

27 June 2024|Campus

Summer, Sun, Campus fest 2024!

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Esfandiari

Suddenly summer: In picture-perfect weather, several thousand employees, students, and guests from the neighborhood took the chance to catch up with the University’s current topics and celebrate into the wee hours at this year’s campus party.

26 June 2024|Press release

Algorithms for Optimal Airport Operations

Photo: Hamburg Airport / Oliver Sorg

From basic research to everyday use: the Institute for Quantum Physics at Universität Hamburg and the IT provider Lufthansa Industry Solutions are jointly developing quantum algorithms to optimize operations at airports. The goal of this joint endeavor is to solve the so-called “airport gate...

21 June 2024|Campus

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Patrick Benjamin Koch strengthens the Humanities.

Photo: Private

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Prof. Dr. Patrick Benjamin Koch.

19 June 2024|Campus

Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Marie Elisabeth Herberstein strengthens Biology and LIB.

Photo: Private

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Biologist Prof. Dr. Marie Elisabeth Herberstein.

17 June 2024|Press release

Biodiversity in Water Indicative for Human Health

Photo: Universität Hamburg, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

A large city’s sewage contains a huge variety of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microscopic organisms. A new collaborative monitoring project headed by researchers at Universität Hamburg are now studying how the diversity of this so-called “aquatic microbiome” changes and what it might indicate...

13 June 2024|Press release

New Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at Universität Hamburg

The professor of applied linguistics Dr. Ingrid Piller

Photo: Macquarie University

Universität Hamburg has been granted an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. The prestigious research prize in the amount of €3.5 million is being awarded to the sociolinguist Prof. Dr. Ingrid Piller. The professor of applied linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia will head the...

12 June 2024|Research

“A view of nature where you live is a very important factor”

Photo: Universität Hamburg

A green environment is not a class privilege—at least in Hamburg. That is one of the findings in the Wohnen im Grünen project headed by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kley. The professor of sociology at Universität Hamburg talks in the interview below about further findings and explains why green courtyards are...

10 June 2024|Press release

€4.8 million for Projects on the Big Bang and the Higgs particle

Der CMS-Detektor am Large-Hadron-Collider

Photo: Cern/Hertzog/Ordan

Several research groups at the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg will receive almost €5 million over the next three years for their joint projects at the world's largest particle accelerator. With their measurements, they are researching the particles that form the building blocks of all...

7 June 2024|Campus

50 Years of Cooperation in Industrial Engineering and Management Program

Photo: HWI

Fifty years ago, the cross-university degree program in industrial engineering and management (HWI) was launched. On 6 June, cooperation partners Universität Hamburg, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), and the Helmut Schmidt University—University of the Federal Armed Forces...

7 June 2024|In Focus

Startup Factory Hamburg Ready to Race

Photo: Universität Hamburg / von Wieding

Hamburg is entering the next round in the national competition Leuchtturmwettbewerb Startup Factory. With strong partners, Hamburg is now on the path to establishing a start-up factory of international brilliance. Entrepreneurs should enjoy support here in all phases of founding and developing their...

6 June 2024|Campus

Indiana University Visits Universität Hamburg

Photo: Universität Hamburg

The vice-president for IT and chief information officer (CIO) of Indiana University, Rob Lowden visited Universität Hamburg on 5 June 2024. Discussions and a tour of the DESY premises provided him with insights into the Universität Hamburg digitalization and IT strategy.

6 June 2024|Campus

“There is nothing that makes me so relaxed”

Photo: Private

Tolga Taskin is studying information systems in his fourth semester and is also the German champion and Guinness record-holder in freediving. Freediving involves diving as deep and as long as possible without additional oxygen. In the interview below, Taskin tells us about how he began, his records...

31 May 2024|Press release

DFG to Provide Approximately 39 Million Euro Funding for Three Major Interdisciplinary Projects at Universität Hamburg

Das Hauptgebäude der Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced that the Universität Hamburg Faculty of Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) will receive a new collaborative research center (CRC). Two further CRC Transregios, of which Universität Hamburg is part, were extended for a...

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