Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

Prof. Teresa Pellegrino from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa, Italy, and Dr. Zala Lenarčič from the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, have been awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program 2025 of the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). The program includes an extended...

In recent years, there has been increasing attention given to highly excited Rydberg atoms. Advances in trapping and cooling atoms, as well as tailoring their interactions, have led to unprecedented progress in controlling and engineering quantum matter. From May 5 to 7, the Functionalities of Rydberg Matter (FORM2025)...

An interdisciplinary research team from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY, the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), the Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) at the University of Hamburg, and Uppsala University has published a review in the renowned journal Nature Methods that sheds light on...

Coffee and science at the same time? This is possible at the Café of the Studierendenwerk on Mittelweg. A selection of impressive pictures from the exhibition "Arts & Science" of the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" offers fascinating insights into the cluster's research topics.

Single-particle diffractive imaging (SPI) using X-ray free-electron lasers allows researchers to reconstruct the structure of nanoparticles and biomolecules. However, the technique often requires imaging up to several billion nanoparticles to produce the image and imposes limitations on its clarity and sharpness.

A group of 60 Israeli students visited the research campus over the past two weeks to gain an insight into the research being carried out by the campus partners.