Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

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An international team of researchers, which on behalf of Universität Hamburg is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Betzel and Prof. Dr. Arwen Pearson, has identified several candidates for drugs against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using DESY´s X-ray lightsource PETRA III. In addition, a new binding site on the virus was...

Prof. Dr. Tim Wehling has accepted the call to the W3 professorship "Computational Theory of Condensed Matter" at the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" and in the Department of Physics. The theoretical physicist previously conducted research at the interdisciplinary Bremen Center for Computational...

An international team of researchers among others from the Max Planck institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, the University of Toronto (Canada), the Diamond Light Source in Oxford (UK), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Hamburg, Universität Hamburg and DESY has found that two of the worlds...

The pandemic is putting a strain on the mental health of many. To provide support in the situation, the Cluster offers two webinars on mental health that were specifically tailored for people working in the academic environment.

What could be done with X-rays, in particular synchrotron radiation, for biologically motivated experiments? What are the opportunities and perspectives for the future? An international team of scientists including many researchers from Universität Hamburg and the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter”...