Cluster of ExcellenceCUI: Advanced
Imaging of Matter

From 31 January to 23 February 2023, the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" at Universität Hamburg will present the exhibition "What Were You Wearing?" at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science on the Bahrenfeld campus. Already two years ago, the cluster board decided to specifically address the...

Much recent research has focused on ‘topological’ materials – an intriguing type of solids which fall outside the standard classification into insulators and conductors. While their bulk is insulating, these phases are characterized by electrically conducting channels which appear at their edges. These resulting so-called...

Prof. Olga Smirnova from the Max Born Institute, Berlin, and Dr. Benedetta Flebus, Assistant Professor at Boston College, USA, are awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program 2022 of the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). The Program includes an extended research stay at the Cluster of Excellence...

A sophisticated experiment provides new insights into the ultrafast reaction of biomolecules when they are hit by energetic ultraviolet light in their natural environment. The team of Jochen Küpper, physics professor at Universität Hamburg and DESY scientist, recorded the light-induced processes taking place in a small...

Chemical processes are all around us. From novel materials to more effective medicines or plastic products – chemical reactions play a key role in the design of the things we use every day. Scientists constantly search for better ways to control these reactions, for example to develop new materials. Now an international...

Dr. Henning Tidow has been accepted into the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). He will conduct research from 1 March 2023 as part of a Heisenberg position in the Department of Chemistry at Universität Hamburg. From 2014 until 2022 he led a research group as a junior professor at the Cluster of...