Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

Great success for the Center of Excellence CUI: From 1 January 2026, the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” will be funded for a further seven years as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

The call for applications for the dynaMENT Mentoring is now open. The program invites junior scientists of all gender identities who feel addressed by the program title dynaMENT Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences to hand in their applications before 7 July.

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.