Press Releases 2017

29 November 2017|Press release

New Hamburg Foundation of Natural History

Photo: Christian Schnabel

The new Hamburg Foundation of Natural History under the aegis of the University lays the cornerstone for the management of a new natural history museum in the city. Founding members of this trust foundation are the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer des Zoologischen Museums Hamburg (society of...

19 October 2017|Press release

CeNak als Kooperationspartner der Ausstellung „TIERE“ im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

„Auch der Mensch ist nur ein Tier.“ Diese nüchterne zoologische Betrachtung ist nur eine Perspektive in der Ausstellung „TIERE. Respekt/Harmonie/Unterwerfung“, die vom 3. November 2017 bis zum 4. März 2018 im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) gezeigt wird. Das Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak)...

18 October 2017|Press release

Code of Conduct for Religious Expression at Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Dingler

“The University is an institution for research, teaching, and education. It is secular and committed to ideological pluralism together with scientific methods and standards in research and teaching.” Thus reads the initial and simultaneously seminal sentence of the Code of Conduct for Religious...

10 October 2017|Press release

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference: For Germans, the intensive media coverage had a calming, not a mobilizing effect

Photo: Hajue Staudt/WikiCommons

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference was accompanied by extensive media coverage. Though the content managed to reach much of Germany’s populace, it did little to change their attitudes. This was a main finding of a study just released in the journal Nature Climate Change by Professor Michael...

6 October 2017|Press release

Long radio waves: LOFAR radio telescope documents rejuvenation in space

Image of galaxy cluster Abell 1033 using the LOFAR telescope

Photo: LOFAR

Whilst observing galaxy clusters, an international research group led by scientists from Universität Hamburg has discovered a new class of cosmic radio waves. With the digital radio telescope Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), they recieved the longest radio waves capable of being measured on Earth. In...

5 October 2017|Press release

Non-stop presentation of encyclopedia of musicians persecuted under the Nazi regime

Eva und Peter, die Kinder des Komponisten Paul Dessau, mit ihrer Mutter Gudrun Dessau-Kabisch auf dem Schiffsanleger in Cuxhaven am Tag ihrer Abreise in die USA im Frühsommer 1939.

Photo: Privat

An encyclopedia of musicians persecuted by the Nazis now boasts over 5,400 biographical entries. As part of a project being funded by the German Research Foundation, researchers have been putting together the encyclopedia since 2005 and are now making it available online (www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de)...

2 October 2017|Press release

Successful accreditation of teacher training degree programs

Photo: UHH/Denstorf

An assessor commission made up of academics and teacher training experts has approved and praised the internal quality assurance system for teacher training degree programs at Universität Hamburg. The successful assessment was part of a partial system accreditation carried out by the accreditiation...

29 September 2017|Press release

Universität Hamburg reaches important milestone in National Excellence Competition

Photo: UHH/Denstorf

Four research clusters at Universität Hamburg will be moving on to the next round in the national funding competition known as the “Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder.” Today (29 October 2017) the German Research Foundation (DFG) requested full applications from Climate, Climatic Change...

26 September 2017|Press release

"Free to Think 2017": Report on world-wide dangers to researchers

Photo: SAR

Restrictions, repression, and violent attacks: researchers the world over face dangers in the pursuit of science. The new report "Free to Think 2017" published by the Scholars at Risk (SAR) network has now confirmed this. The organization advocates throughout the world for the protection of...

21 September 2017|Press release

Success: Universität Hamburg receives 16 professorships through the Tenure Track Program

Photo: UHH/Sukhina

Planning the path to a professorship: through the federal and state Tenure Track Program, Universität Hamburg will recieve 16 additional tenure-track professorships dedicated to advancing young researchers. This is the most successful outcome possible in this first round. The Federal Ministry of...

18 September 2017|Press release

Children's Uni turns 15: 2017 lecture series kicks off with "How Does Our Memory Work?"

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

How many Children's Uni lectures have taken place over the last 14 years? And who gave the first lecture back in 2003? Remembering small details of events that happened a long time ago is not always easy—even for young people. But why is that so? In the first lecture on 9 October 2017 at 5 pm, Dr...

14 September 2017|Press release

Arctic sea-ice has once again signficantly melted

Die aktuelle Meereisfläche (weiß) im Vergleich zum Durchschnitt jeweils im September der Jahre 2000-2010 (gelb)

Photo: UHH/CEN/Kaleschke/DKRZ

Arctic sea-ice has melted by about 4.7 million square km this September according to researchers from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, the University of Bremen, and Universität Hamburg. This means that the surface is somewhat larger than it was last year; nonetheless, it remains average for the last 10...

1 September 2017|Press release

French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation visits Universität Hamburg

Begrüßen sich einander: Wissenschaftsministerin Frédérique Vidal und Vizepräsident Prof. Dr. Jan Louis

Photo: UHH/Dingler

On Friday 1 September the French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation Frédérique Vidal visited Universität Hamburg. She was particularly interested in the University's research on climate. Only recently in Paris, Vidal and her German counterpart Johanna Wanka agreed on closer...

17 August 2017|Press release

Climate change: In their old age, trees still accumulate large quantities of carbon

Photo: UHH/CEN/M. Köhl

Even old trees absorb large amounts of carbon, removing CO2 (carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere. This was recently proven for the first time using trees from the rainforests in Surinam, as Professor Michael Köhl from Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)...

7 August 2017|Press release

CeNak research team analyzes species diversity in new conservation area Duvenwischen

Male of the greatly endangered Stethophyma grossum

Photo: CeNak/Swantje Grabener

On behalf of the Ministry for Environment and Energy (BUE) of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (FHH), researchers from the Center of Natural History (CeNak) at Universität Hamburg analyzed the prevalence of selected animal groups in wetland areas of Duvenwischen in the suburb of Volksdorf...

31 July 2017|Press release

Move from the Philosophenturm to City Nord begins today

Photo: UHH/Dingler

A behemoth moves house: starting today, everything in the Philturm, from its lecture halls to its libraries, will be moved to temporary quarters in Überseering 35 in City Nord. Once the tallest building (52 m) on the Von-Melle-Campus has been cleared, movers will face their next logistical...

24 July 2017|Press release

International conference string mathematics 2017

Spitzenforscherinnen und –forscher der String-Mathematik treffen sich vom 24. bis 28. Juli an der Universität Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Schell

From 24–28 July 2017 leading international researchers in the field of string mathematics will be convening at Universität Hamburg for the StringMath 2017 conference to address current developments in the field. Conference organizers are expecting over 200 participants from the fields of physics...

19 July 2017|Press release

The Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN) at Universität Hamburg opens its doors on the Bahrenfeld Campus

The new CHyN building on the Bahrenfeld Campus.

Photo: UHH/CHyN

The new research building for the Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN) at Universität Hamburg opened its doors in a festive ceremony on the Bahrenfeld Research Campus on 19 July 2017. This marks the addition of a key research area in structural research and a so-called "clean room" on premises...

14 July 2017|Press release

Climate research using pigmented lacquer film

Photo: Gymnasium Heidberg

What looks like modern art to the connoisseur is a treasure trove of climate research information to the geologist. Pigmented lacquer film faithfully documents geological deposits in loose sediments. The University's lacquer film collection containing 600 samples is Germany's largest and is now set...

13 July 2017|Press release

The Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN) at Universität Hamburg opens

Photo: Foto: UHH/ CHyN

The Center for Hybrid Nanostructure (CHyN) opened its doors on Wednesday, 19 July 2017. This marks the beginning of the Center's work in its new research building on the Bahrenfeld research campus, right next door to DESY. [Read on in German]

13 July 2017|Press release

Hamburg research group develops new transistor

Photo: Bild: UHH/Klinke

Transistors are electrical components that direct electronic signals and enable us to process information. Millions of them are built into every single computer chip, and they are usually made out of the semiconductor material silicon. Dr. Christian Klinke's research group at the Institute of...

5 July 2017|Press release

Salt marshes and climate changes

Photo: Pixabay.com/Wolf Blur

Salt marshes are habitats for highly specialized plants and animals and they protect coastal regions from storm floods. They also store atmospheric carbon long term, thereby contributing to climate protection. Yet rising temperatures in the wake of climate change can upset the entire system. What do...

3 July 2017|Press release

High Energy and Particle Physics Prize 2017

Hälfte des inneren Spurdetektors des Multifunktionsdetektors CMS

Photo: CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration

Today, silicon detectors with high local resolution are used in most experiments on particle acceleration that involve the analysis of elementary building blocks of material and the characteristics of fundamental forces. Prof. Dr. Robert Klanner from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg...

29 June 2017|Press release

Opening of Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)

Photo: Tina Mavric

Today, 29 June 2017, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) ceremoniously opened the doors of its new building. The CSSB's research focuses on the decoding of the structures,dynamics, and mechanisms of the infection processes of pathogens. The CSSB scientists will use their findings to...

27 June 2017|Press release

Summer concerts at Universität Hamburg

Photo: G2 Baraniak

The choir and symphony orchestra of University Music cordially invite the public to its summer concerts on 2 and 8 July 2017. [Read on in German]

23 June 2017|Press release

Roughly €3.7 million to research biological risks

Leiter der Forschergruppe, Dr. Gunnar Jeremias, und Stefan Müller, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär bei der Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung (v.l.)

Photo: BMBF/Luca Abbiento

A new junior research group at Universität Hamburg will be investigating biological risks and their effects on society. The interdisciplinary group (INFABRI) will be looking at ways to better predict the consequences of biological hazards. The first project, "Biological Hazards: Analysis and...

21 June 2017|Press release

Universität Hamburg confers Equal Opportunity Award 2017

Schuhpaare als Symbol für die Gleichstellung

Photo: UHH/Priebe

This year Prof. Dr. Nora Markard and her team at the Refugee Law Clinic and Prof. Dr. Martina Neuburger and her working group Geographies of Global Inequalities will receive the Equal Opportunity Award of Universität Hamburg for their outstanding committment to equal opportunity for refugees in...

20 June 2017|Press release

Public sustainability symposium at Universität Hamburg

Photo: Anna Jimenez Calaf

Society’s new approach to sustainability is the focus of a public symposium in economics and the social sciences at Universität Hamburg. Eight researchers will be giving lectures and presentations to provide insight into their projects. Topics include the future of sustainability and the societal...

19 June 2017|Press release

10th anniversary of the European Research Council: Universität Hamburg takes stock

Photo: ERC

During his visit to Hamburg on 19 June 2017 to mark the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council (ERC), the ERC president Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (Brussels) will be visiting the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg. The Centre is home to five...

16 June 2017|Press release

Vice president of Universität Hamburg confirmed in office

Prof. Dr. Susanne Rupp und Prof. Dr. Dieter Lenzen

Photo: UHH/Schöttmer

The Academic Senate of Universität Hamburg has elected Prof. Dr. Susanne Rupp, vice president for studies and teaching to a second, three-year term of office in its regular meeting on 15 June 2017. [Read on in German . . .]

7 June 2017|Press release

Trailblazing discovery: circular-polarized light creates oriented currents in nano-crystals

Abbildungen des neu beschriebenen Phänomens.

Photo: UHH/Klinke

Nano-crystals created in wet chemicals, meaning in a solution, can already be found in the latest TV screens or in image-making diagnostic procedures in medicine. A research group headed by PD Dr. Christian Klinke from the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Universität Hamburg has now demonstrated a...

6 June 2017|Press release

Bronze artefacts from Benin: €274,000 for new project on post-colonial provenance research

Photo: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe/Völkerkundemuseum Hamburg

Artefacts known as "Benin Bronzes" are among the most extraordinary from pre-colonial Africa. The bronzes have been dispersed around the world since 1897. A research team headed by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer, professor of African history in the History Department at Universität Hamburg, will now...

1 June 2017|Press release

This time with a special twist: third gravitational wave signal observed

Simulation der Kollision von zwei Schwarzen Löchern

Photo: LIGO

Researchers from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) have once again been able to prove the existence of gravitational waves, thereby fortifying this new area of astronomy. In the newest issue of Physical Review Letters, the researchers also write that the first clues have emerged as to how...

31 May 2017|Press release

Press conference and photo session for the international conference of university leaders

Photo: HTULC

The heads of leading universities from around the world will be discussing differentiation in the higher education landscape at the Hamburg Transnational University Leaders Council from 7–9 June 2017 in Hamburg. Among other topics, the roughly 50 university presidents will also be addressing the...

30 May 2017|Press release

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Universität Hamburg

Photo: privat

Universität Hamburg has been granted an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. The renowned research prize has been awarded to the lawyer Prof. Dr. Anne van Aaken. Van Aaken currently teaches and conducts research at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). The prize is worth €3.5 million. Van...

29 May 2017|Press release

Four new Innovative Training Networks at Universität Hamburg

Photo: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Supporting young researchers, encouraging innovation, and advancing interdisciplinary cooperation with non-university institutions: those are the goals of the Innovative Training Networks (ITN), announced by the European Commission. A total of four projects involving Universität Hamburg—two under...

24 May 2017|Press release

Arts and science in City Hall's foyer

Photo: Andreas Kornowski, AG Weller (Universität Hamburg)

Pop art, drawings by indigenous Australians, or psychedelic visions? Take a second look: the exhibition Art & Science will be showing images from the micro-world of basic natural science research conducted in the Cluster of Excellence The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). [Read on in...

22 May 2017|Press release

Harbor Conference starts Friday

Photo: Gutjahr/Pantléon

As part of the Theater of the World festival, the first-ever Hamburg Harbor Conference will also be taking place. On six nights from 26 Mai to 2 June respectively, four academics from Hamburg's universities and research institutions will be discussing their work on harbor cities. [Read on in German]...

18 May 2017|Press release

International university conference

Roughly 50 university presidents from universities around the world will gather from 7–9 June 2017 for the second Hamburg Transnational University Leaders Council. At the invitation of the German Rectors' Conference, the Körber Foundation, and Universität Hamburg, they will discuss differentiation...

17 May 2017|Press release

Student researches petrified marine animals in flooring of Hamburg's shopping malls

Samantha Brose bei der Untersuchung des Bodenbelages im City-Center Bergedorf

Photo: UHH/Brose

Hamburg is teeming with petrified sponges, snails, mollusks, and squid but who would think of a trip to the mall as a dip in the primordial sea? Samantha Brose, a student of geology and paleontology at Universität Hamburg, is researching the marble in the Bergedorf City Center and Rahlstedt Center...

16 May 2017|Press release

Otto Hahn—A life devoted to science, humanity, and peace

Photo: Portrait of Otto Hahn

Considered the father of nuclear chemistry, Otto Hahn nonetheless became one of the most vehement critics of nuclear armament. Journalist Dietrich Hahn will talk about his grandfather in an open colloquium hosted by the Department of Physics and the Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Physik at...

16 May 2017|Press release

A weekend of nature in the city (16–18 June 2017)

Ein Käfer als Symbol für das Aktionswochenende „Natur in der Stadt“

Photo: Solvin Zankl

Hamburg is green—but green enough? What about species diversity in the city? How are climate change and urbanization changing city life? The Day of Urban Nature, The GEO-Tag der Natur e.V. and CeNak will be cooperating for the first time to host Hamburg's largest nature event (16–18 June 2017)...

9 May 2017|Press release

Research team at Universität Hamburg supports development of digital national archive in Gambia

Die Teilnehmenden des Symposiums zum „Digital National Archive Project“ in Gambia.

Photo: NCAC, The Gambia

Historical documents, artworks, and collective knowledge are crucial to a society's historical consciousness and identity. Political conflicts and social collapse often lead to the destruction of cultural heritage, e.g., the desecration of holy World Heritage Sites and writings in Timbuktu (Mali) in...

28 April 2017|Press release

Research group at Universität Hamburg discovers mechanism to activate reproduction in plants

Photo: UHH/Schnittger

An international research group under the aegis of developmental biologist Prof. Dr. Arp Schnittger from the Biocenter Klein Flottbek at Universität Hamburg has discovered the mechanism that activates the reproductive process in flowering plants. The scientists investigated the female resproductive...

27 April 2017|Press release

New foyer opens in Zoological Museum

Polar bear in the new exhibition space at CeNak

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Philipp Reiss

The Zoological Museum of the Center of Natural History (CeNak) today opens its newly designed foyer in the Bundesstraße building as a "window on the city." The exhibition has access for the disabled, is multimedial, and looks towards the future. The exhibition MenschenZeit—NaturWelt (The Human...

24 April 2017|Press release

Third round of Science on Tap

Photo: DESY und Universität Hamburg

On Thursday, 27 April, inquiring minds can slake their thirst for knowledge at the third annual Science on Tap. Hamburg researchers will be talking about their current work in about 45 pubs throughout Hamburg, giving half-hour talks and entertaining insights into their research. What does the dark...

19 April 2017|Press release

Hamburg research team analyzes sharks and skate in North and Baltic Seas

Jungtier eines Kleingefleckten Katzenhai

Photo: UHH/Thiel

The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) has commissioned Prof. Dr. Ralf Thiel, Heike Zidowitz, and their research team in the ichthyology section of the Center for Natural History (CeNak) at Universität Hamburg to investigate the situation of sharks, skate, and chimaeras in the German...

18 April 2017|Press release

Integrating pathogens and molecular level

Photo: UHH/U. Oxford/CSSB

In a co-financing scheme, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted Universität Hamburg €15.6 million to establish a cryo-electron microscope facility in the new building of the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB).

18 April 2017|Press release

Invitation to exhibition opening in entry hall of Zoological Museum

Der neue Eingangsbereich des Zoologischen Museums der Universität Hamburg.

Photo: FRAMEGRABBER Medien GmbH

Barrier-free, modern, interactive—the new entry hall at the Zoological Museum of the Center for Natural History (CeNak) at Universität Hamburg gives a foretaste of what natural history museums might look like in the 21st century. The new exhibition "MenschenZeit—Naturwelt" ("The Human Era and the...

12 April 2017|Press release

Introduction to the 23rd international conference Performance Studies international

Photo: PSi#23

From 8 to 11 Juni 2017 Performance Studies at Universität Hamburg in cooperation with the performing arts center Kampnagel will host the international conference Performance Studies international. The conference will take place as part of the Theater der Welt festival. Members of the media and the...

10 April 2017|Press release

Sharing is Caring conference sounds out models and opportunities in digital participation

Photo: „Sharing is Caring“

Digitization has immense effects on how we perceive, remember, and use our cultural heritage in the public sphere. Do we share digitized cultural treasures on the Internet and, if so, how? During the conference Sharing is Caring – Hamburg Extension from 20 to 21 April 2017, international experts...

6 April 2017|Press release

President of Unviersität Hamburg elected to Landeshochschulkonference (LHK)

Photo: LHK

Professor Dr. Dieter Lenzen, president of Universität Hamburg, has been elected to chair of the Landeshochschulekonferenz (LHK). In line with a rotation principle, he will succeed Dr.-Ing.Walter Pelka from the HafenCity University.

4 April 2017|Press release

Yellow slug turns up in Hamburg's Red Light District!

Exemplar der Nacktschnecken-Art „Bierschnegel“.

Photo: UHH/Neiber

A yellow slug in the middle of the Red Light District! For the past eighty years, researchers have been unable to prove the existence of yellow slugs in Hamburg. In the current Red List of Endangered Species for Hamburg's land snails, the yellow slug has been deemed extinct or lost. Now the slug has...

4 April 2017|Press release

On the colonial trail in the African collections of the Übersee-Museum Bremen

Metallskulptur „Looking vor Grace“ der nigerianischen Bildhauerin Sokari Douglas Camp.

Photo: Matthias Haase

An ornate stool from Cameroon, a wooden figure of a man from Tanzania, or an Herero necklace from Namibia: these were the kind of objects that found their way into the collections of the Übersee-Museum during Germany's colonial era.

3 April 2017|Press release

Jan Philipp Albrecht speaks about the new EU General Data Protection Regulation

Photo: Fritz Schumann

In May 2016 following four years of negotiations, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) came into force. From 2018 onwards, it will regulate all data protection within the European Union as the regulation will apply directly to all EU member states. This means that some states will...

30 March 2017|Press release

General Lecture Series commences in April with 27 public lecture series

Photo: AWW

In the summer semester Universität Hamburg is once again offering a comprehensive program of public lectures. With a great variety of topics covered in around 300 individual lectures, the General Lecture Series takes listeners on a journey through current questions in science, research, and society...

29 March 2017|Press release

Universität Hamburg applies for first-line funding in the Excellence Initiative

Photo: UHH/Schell

Outstanding research is the name of the game in the first phase of the Federal and State Excellence Initiative (the successor to the Excellence Initiative). The first hurdle in this important competition has been cleared: on 3 April 2017, grant proposals for the funding of clusters of excellence...

27 March 2017|Press release

Science Sundays

Installation of a measuring system to analyze water economy in plants

Photo: Dr. Christoph Reisdorff

The Biocenter Klein Flottbek at Universität Hamburg presents a new scientific outreach event in Loki Schmidt House—Museum for Useful Plants: Science Sundays. Come along and find out all about current research on plants at the Biocenter as well as the work of the Museum.

22 March 2017|Press release

„Wahnsinn trifft Methode“ am 23. März zum „Zwirn“

"Himmel, Arsch und Zwirn" und fliegender Engel

Photo: UHH

The talkshow Wahnsinn trifft Method ("madness meets method") jointly hosted by Universität Hamburg and Thalia Theater is set to continue on Thursday, 23 March. The evening is dedicated to yarn, a topic the audience can wrap itself in.

8 March 2017|Press release

Kessler's goby fish inhabit the Elbe!

Photo: UHH/Ralf Thiel

A research team headed by Prof. Dr. Ralf Thiel from the Center of Natural History at Universität Hamburg has confirmed that, for the first time, Kessler's goby fish (Ponticola kessleri) have been found in the Elbe. This is the northernmost sighting thus far. The researchers have published their...

1 March 2017|Press release

Digital newspaper stores devour traditional publishers

Photo: UHH/Wohlfahrt

Digital store apps can negatively affect subscriptions for publishers offering their goods on the Internet. This is the finding of a new study conducted at Universität Hamburg and Groningen University. The research project "Competing with Free: Flatrates in the Publishing Industry" looked for the...

23 February 2017|Press release

Invitation to opening of exhibition in Loki Schmidt House

Photo: Elfi Ekhoff

The collection at Loki Schmidt House has grown in size by more than 100 drawings and aquarelles by artist Elfi Eckhoff from her series "Plants and Animals of the Bible." The latest special exhibition provides insight into these works. Interested members of the public and the media are warmly invited...

14 February 2017|Press release

Does the Renewable Energy Act really protect the climate?

Aufnahme einer Landschaft mit Fabrikschloten im goldenen Abendlicht.

Photo: Rabe/pixabay.com

In 2017, the amended Renewable Energy Act (EEG) went into effect. The EEG is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the climate. Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino and Dr. Johannes Jarke from the Department of Socioeconomics at Universität Hamburg investigated just how effectively this...

13 February 2017|Press release

"Girls go math 2017"—Math Day for female high school students

Mathematische Operatoren auf einer Schultafel

Photo: pixabay.com

For the tenth year, the Department of Mathematics at Universität Hamburg invites female upper-level high school pupils to a math day on Saturday, 18 February 2017 from 1 to 6 pm at the Gemomatikum, Lecture Hall 4, Bundesstraße 55. Participants will discover aspects of math rarely encountered at...

9 February 2017|Press release

Long Night of Postponed Papers

Studierende an Schreibtischen während Langen Nacht der aufgeschobenen Hausarbeiten in der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek.

Photo: UHH/Dingler

For Universität Hamburg and HafenCity University students who prefer to work in the wee hours, it's once again time to get cracking, keep your nose to the grindstone—and finish! There are various types of writing help available at the 6th Long Night of Postponed Papers.

7 February 2017|Press release

Analysis in outer space

Photo: NASA

On 8 February, a transport rocket will head off to the ISS space station. On board: samples from a research group under the aegis of Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Betzel from Universität Hamburg. The group will analyze what happens to the samples at zero gravity.

6 February 2017|Press release

Business Administration takes up residence in beautifully restored building

Photo: UHH/ Schell

The old build at Moorweidenstrasse 18 (opposite the Grand Elysée Hotel) is one of Hamburg-Rotherbaum's architectural pearls. Following extensive restoration financed by University funds, the building is now home to Business Administration.

6 February 2017|Press release

675,000 euros für digital humanities projects

Links: Dr. Timo Baumann, rechts: Dr. Cristina Vertan

Photo: privat

Two projects at Universität Hamburg have been awarded 450,000 and 225,000 euros respectively as part of the call for funding applications in the area of interactions between qualitative-hermaneutic processes and the digital humanities / mixed methods in the humanities.

1 February 2017|Press release

Cluster project on biodiversity in the alluvial forests of the Elbe to receive €4.3 million

Hochwasser in der Auenlandschaft an der Mittelelbe

Photo: Claudia Mählmann

Hardwood alluvial forests play a major role in the natural flood areas of river landscapes (flood retention). In order to better understand the ecology and the spatial and temporal manifestations of alluvial forest activity, researchers will investigate alluvial forest biodiverstiy on the Elbe, a...

26 January 2017|Press release

University winter concert: destiny

Photo: G2 Baraniak

The University orchestra and choir as well as the alumni choir cordially invite the public to its winter concert on Sunday, 5 February 2017 at 8 pm (introduction at 7 pm) in the large auditiorium of the Laeiszhalle.

23 January 2017|Press release

German Council of Science and Humanities confirms Universität Hamburg is on right path!

Photo: Wissenschaftsrat

An overall joyous result for the humanities and the social sciences at Universität Hamburg: the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), the most important academic-political advisory body for the German federal and state governments, has confirmed in its report—published...

20 January 2017|Press release

Award ceremony of the Deutschlandstipendien at Universität Hamburg

We warmly invite the press to join us at this year's award ceremony for the Deutschlandstipendien at Universität Hamburg.

19 January 2017|Press release

Catalog of Hamburg professors now available

In preparation for the 100th anniversary of Universität Hamburg in 2019, the Center for the History of Universität Hamburg has developed a databank listing professors at Hamburger Universität from its founding in 1919 to today. The public is cordially invited to the official release of this catalog...

17 January 2017|Press release

New Emmy Noether Group granted 1.1 million euros

Photo: UHH/Koch

Dr. Patrick Benjamin Koch from the Institute of Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Universität Hamburg has been accepted to the Emmy Noether Program run by the DFG. He will receive €1.1 million to establish a young researchers group on the topic of Jewish moralistic literature of the early modern...