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Supporting outstanding young scientists with innovative projects in basic research - that is the goal of the so-called Starting Grants of the European...

The coronavirus pandemic continues to affect processes at the University—for example, resulting in the use of digital-based studies, restrictions on...

This year’s programme and registration form for our Academic Leadership Programme for Women is out now. The event for female scientists* in their...

The search for new, super-efficient materials to harvest solar energy is a major research focus around the world. Until now, silicon has been the...

The formation and properties of polarons drastically influence the conductivity of technologically relevant materials. Examples include the organic...

Using the X-ray laser European XFEL, a research team has investigated how water heats up under extreme conditions. In the process, the scientists were...

Henry Chapman, Professor at Universität Hamburg and DESY Lead Scientist, will receive the Gregori Aminoff Prize for Crystallography 2021 from the...

Dr. Cristina Palencia Ramírez has been awarded the "For Women in Science" award by L'Oréal Germany, the German Commission for UNESCO in partnership...

The physics school laboratory Light & Schools and the Physics Project Days of Universität Hamburg invite girls from the upper school level on to...

Dr. Caterina Vozzi, Director at the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnology (CNR-IFN) in Milan, Italy, and Dr. Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Tenure-Track...

Female physicists at all career levels from industry, business and research have the opportunity to exchange information about current research...

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), DESY and Universität Hamburg has succeeded for the first time in building...

Coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 drastically remodel infected cells by building special membrane structures that accommodate virus replication. It is...

A research cooperation between Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Hamburg and the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), has realized a new concept...

The team from Light & Schools, the physics school laboratory of Universität Hamburg and the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter"...

Zero electrical resistance at room temperature? A material with this property, i.e. a room temperature superconductor, could revolutionize power...

Helena Gleißner will be awarded the Jean-Marie Lehn and Klaus von Klitzing Prize 2020 for the best Master's thesis in the nanosciences program at...

In recent years two-dimensional quantum materials have provided a platform for the realization of novel correlated and topological phases of matter...

At the "Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings" young scientists meet Nobel Prize winners. This year, two young researchers from Universität Hamburg, Dr...