Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

In a paper published yesterday in Nature Methods, scientists show how to effectively use the high X-ray pulse repetition rate of the European XFEL to produce detailed molecular movies. This type of information can help us to better understand, for example, how a drug molecule reacts with proteins in a human cell, or how...

Austrian physicist Matthias Troyer has yesterday been awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. At a ceremony held at Planetarium Hamburg, Troyer was honored for his work on quantum Monte Carlo algorithms. Using random numbers, these algorithms can predict how tiny particles will interact within structures such as...

Francesca Calegari was elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA) at the Society’s recent Board of Directors meeting. Calegari, who is a professor of physics at Universität Hamburg and a lead scientist at DESY, is being honored specifically “for major contributions to attosecond science.”

Three researchers from the Universität Hamburg, Uppsala University in Sweden and Radboud University in the Netherlands will receive an eight million euro Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for outstanding research teams.

Yesterday in the new university museum in the main building the exhibition "100! Geschichte und Gegenwart der Universität Hamburg" has been opened. In addition to a journey through 100 years of history, the exhibition also deals with special research results, campus life and art installations with scientific objects.

An international research team has observed in real time how football molecules made of carbon atoms burst in the beam of an X-ray laser. The study shows the temporal course of the bursting process, which takes less than a trillionth of a second, and is important for the analysis of sensitive proteins and other...