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5 April 2023|Research

Doing the Research series: Can Algorithms Create the Perfect Portfolio?

View of a computer screen showing stock market prices

Photo: Pixabay PIX1861

What conditions do capital markets require and which instruments can make them more predictable? These are a few of the research topics in the focus area of finance, banking, and insurance at the Faculty of Business Administration. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Drobetz provides some insight into current...
4 April 2023|Campus

“Welcome Aboard!” Prof. Dr. Freydis Vogel strengthens the Department of Education.

Prof. Dr. Freydis Vogel

Photo: Private

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: education scholar Prof. Dr. Freydis Vogel
3 April 2023|Excellence Strategy

Teaching tandem: critical view of migration as presented in museums

Illustration of a street scene in Five Points

Photo: public domain

Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence will be funding interdisciplinary teaching tandems for the third time in Summer Semester 2023. Two teachers from different subject areas cooperated on the development of an innovative learning format for the topic of sustainability. Here, we introduce one...
30 March 2023|Press release

Arts and Science: Exhibition in the city hall lobby

Computer simulation electron

Photo: UHH/Mukherjee

Colorful images from the microscopic world of basic research require a close second look: Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter is hosting the Arts and Science exhibition, 4–24 April 2023 at Hamburg’s city hall. The event is free.
28 March 2023|Press release

Public Lectures at Universität Hamburg Started on 29 March

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 2023, the program includes roughly 140 public lectures on different topics. The lectures begin before the official lecture period (3 April...
27 March 2023|Press release

Telling Your Own Pandemic Story: Seeking Curators for Online Exhibition!

Corona archive logo

Photo: „coronarchiv“

While the corona pandemic affected everyone, the experiences of it were highly individual, to which the corona archive set up by researchers at Universität Hamburg 3 years ago attests. The online archive contains testimonials from the beginning of the pandemic and now the initiators are seeking...
27 March 2023|Press release

Founder’s Competition for Digital Innovation: Universität Hamburg Spin-Off Recognized

Dr. Matthes Koch, Dr. Nikolai Heinrichs, Dr. Nils Roemer, Dr. Markus Mickein, and Dr. Anna Christmann

Photo: Wolfgang Borrs

Research at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence is a fertile starting point for many successful new enterprises. One of these spin-offs, PLANNINGIO, has now been awarded in a competition for digital innovation organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
27 March 2023|Research

Knowledge exchange project: imaging procedure to fight chronic diseases

Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner, Katharina Fegebank, Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost, Dr. Bakr Fadl, Dr. Theresa Staufer

Photo: UHH/Kaminski

To treat many diseases, it is vital to understand the exact nature of immune cells. A research team headed by Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner at Universität Hamburg has now developed an innovative imaging method that enables direct examination of these cells. On 27 March, the results from the cooperation...
22 March 2023|In focus

Universität Hamburg alumni on their path towards a career—psychology and human movement science

Dr. Ann-Kathrin Rogge, Prof. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke, Dr. Christoph Ramcke, Dr. Mario Bogdanov

Photo: Universität Hamburg, RRZ/MCC, Mentz; Dennis Williamson; private (2)

Every year, thousands of students earn their degree here. Hundreds of doctorates are also awarded. And the career options available after that are many and diverse. In this series, alumni from various faculties talk about what they learned at Universität Hamburg and what advice they have for...
21 March 2023|Campus

Visit from Lund: Deepening the Strategic Partnership

Group photo of the delegations from Universität Hamburg and Lund University

Photo: Universität Hamburg / Esfandiari

Digitalization, sustainability, career paths in academia, diversity, and equal opportunity— these topics are the focus of the visit by the 10-person delegation from Lund University to Universität Hamburg on 20–21 March.
10 March 2023|In focus

Traute Lafrenz dies at 103

Traute Lafrenz

Photo: public domain

Last surviving member of the White Rose: Traute Lafrenz. A Hamburg native, she started to study medicine at Universität Hamburg in 1939 and became an active member of the opposition movement against the Nazi regime. She worked at the junction of the White Rose in Munich and resistance groups in her...
7 March 2023|Press release

Multimedia special exhibition: Journey to the Big Bang extended to 7 May 2023

A glance at the exhibition How It All Began

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari

The interactive exhibition How It All Began: Of Galaxies, Quarks, and Collisions at the Museum of Work provides interesting insight into the latest scientific findings in particle physics, astro-particle physics, and cosmology. The exhibition is now being extended until 7 May 2023. The extensive...
3 March 2023|Campus

Macquarie University: Strategic Partnership for Doctoral and Early Career Researcher Support

Bruce Dowton and Hauke Heereren with the signed cooperation contract

Photo: UHH/Schreiber

The main focus of a visit to Universität Hamburg by a delegation from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) was support for doctoral and early career researchers. Among other things, the universities’ presidents extended a university-wide agreement for a master’s student exchange.
3 March 2023|Campus

“Welcome Aboard!” Prof. Dr. Daniel Fliege strengthens the humanities.

Literary scholar Prof. Dr. Daniel Fliege

Photo: Private

Every year, Universität Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Literary scholar Prof. Dr. Daniel Fliege
2 March 2023|In focus

AI in education: “ChatGPT is just the Tip of the Iceberg”

Image generated by AI response to prompts “Education” and “Artificial Intelligence”

Photo: UHH/EW

The machine-learning based dialog system ChatGPT knows all the answers and can type them out for those who ask. What does that mean for learning and education, what are the opportunities and challenges? Prof. Dr. Ann-Katrin van den Ham, Junior Professor for Educational Science with a focus on...
1 March 2023|Press release

Universität Hamburg develops digitalization and AI research

Prof. Dr. Gregor Kasieczka

Photo: UHH/MIN/Fuchs

Since 1 March 2023, Universität Hamburg has been taking part in 5 new collaborative projects on digitalization in natural science basic research. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the projects for 3 years. Two of the 5 research collaborations are being coordinated by the...
28 February 2023|Research

New Antarctic expedition: Tracking of Fin Whales for the First Time Using Satellite Transmitters

Dr. Helena Herr

Photo: Private

We already know where the fin whales of the southern hemisphere feed. Researchers, however, have not yet studied where they mate and breed. Now an expedition to the Antarctic, which started on 25 February, hopes to find out. The Universität Hamburg biologist Dr. Helena Herr is leading the...
22 February 2023|Press release

What can generative AI do?

Image AI

Photo: Pixabay CC0

To better understand the possibilities of certain types of AI, the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg is inviting you to a “prompt-a-thon.” You can try to solve problems using AI. The event is open to the public.
21 February 2023|Excellence Strategy

“To me, IT security is incredibly exciting.”

Portrait Maya Herrscher

Photo: Private

The fast-track program at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence provides outstanding students with an opportunity to do a doctorate directly after completing their bachelor’s program. Maya Herrscher, from the Department of Informatics, is one of the students being funded through the program...
21 February 2023|Press release

Meat tax: Animal Protection More Compelling than Climate Protection

Portrait Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino

Photo: Sebastian Engels

Meat production causes climate-harming CO2 emissions. Furthermore, many animals suffer under livestock conditions. A meat tax could lower consumption and the money could be used, for example, to improve conditions. A new study by Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino and Henrike Schwickert from Universität...