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13.01.2025|Exzellenzstrategie
Mysterious Damage: Valuable Manuscripts from Tunisia Analysed in Hamburg
Numerous artefacts from one of the world’s most important collections of Islamic manuscripts are affected by an unusual form of degradation. In late 2024, a delegation from Tunisia brought 15 objects to Hamburg and analysed them together with the experts of the Artefact Lab at the Centre for the...
Stephanie Frances Loria, Dr. Danilo Harms, and Svea-Celina Frank

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13.01.2025|Research
The Most Poisonous Spider in the World includes 3 Different Species
The Sydney funnel web spider is one of the most poisonous spiders in the world. One international research team, which includes the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change and the University of Hamburg, has now found out that this spider is a complex of 3 species that includes a...
Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth

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09.01.2025|Internal
Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth is the new dean of the University of Hamburg Business School
Prof. Dr. Petra Steinorth began her tenure as the new dean of the University of Hamburg Business School on 1 January 2025. In this interview, the professor of risk management and insurance shares her goals, her vision for the faculty, and how she plans to incorporate her international experience in...
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07.01.2025|Excellence
University of Hamburg Early Career Researchers Win International Competition
A team of doctoral researchers and postdocs in the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg have won the Airbus-BMW Group Quantum Computing Challenge in one of 5 categories. The international competition is organized by Airbus, BMW, and Amazon in cooperation with the digital magazine The...
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06.01.2025|Internal
Cultural Shift at the University: Small Projects, Great Impact—Part 2
How can we work together better and more positively and effectively communicate? From new formats to momentary adjustments—there are a host of ideas for greater scientific exchange and working together successfully. This series present inspiring initiatives.
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12.12.2024|Internal
Cultural Shift at the University: Small projects, great impact—Part I
How can we work together better and more positively and effectively communicate? From new formats to momentary adjustments—there are a host of ideas for greater scientific exchange and working together successfully. This series present inspiring initiatives.
Prof. Dr. Emanuel Viebahn

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11.12.2024|Campus
Welcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Emanuel Viebahn strengthens the Humanities
Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: philosophy Prof. Dr. Emanuel Viebahn
New Work final event

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10.12.2024|In Focus
New Culture of Cooperation at the University of Hamburg
More than 150 people gathered in Mozart Hall for the final event of the New Work@UHH project on 9 December 2024. The event was a milestone, marking the transition from the project phase to implementation.
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Have you ever asked yourself what “University of Excellence” means, what it requires of Universität Hamburg, and what the University spend its Excellence funding on? A short film provides the most important answers.