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19 January 2022|Internal

FAQ on the coronavirus and its impact on Universität Hamburg

Das Hauptgebäude der Universtität Hamburg.

Photo: UHH/Schell

What is the Campus Pass? What rules are in place for teaching, researching, and working from home? You can find the answers to the most important...

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13 January 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Watching the charge move in photoexcited molecules

Illustration in front of the experimental setup

Photo: Rolf Treusch (DESY), David Picconi und Markus Gühr (UP)

An international research team led by Markus Gühr’s group at the University of Potsdam performed laser experiments at DESY's free-electron laser FLASH...

13 January 2022|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A quantum inspired perspective on turbulence

Four simulations of the turbulent collapse of a vortex visualized at five different points in time (time increases from left-to-right).

Photo: Nikita Gourianov

An international team of scientists describes a new route of attack on the yet unsolved problem of turbulence. The work by researchers from the...

12 January 2022|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Dr. Sadia Bari becomes professor at the University of Groningen

Photo: DESY

DESY Research Group Leader Dr. Sadia Bari has been appointed professor at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Bari, who is also a Young...

10 January 2022|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Universität Hamburg researcher receives funding of €1.5 million

Photo: Private

For the development of more environmentally friendly chemicals or novel materials, it is important to be able to take high-resolution images of...

17 December 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Dr. Saša Bajt honoured as Ambassador of Science

A man congratulates Saša Bajt on a festive stage. Two musicians are sitting in the background.

Photo: STA, Daniel Novakovič

DESY researcher Saša Bajt has been awarded the title Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia for her outstanding scientific achievements and...

3 December 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Researchers at Universität Hamburg will build the quantum computer

Photo: UHH/Lutsch

Quantum computers promise considerable advantages over classical digital computers for certain tasks. The German Federal Ministry of Education and...

29 November 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

New LGBTQI* network “Science and beλond” is formed

Flags in rainbow colors against blue sky

Photo: pixabay

A new cross-institutional network is to promote the exchange of LGBTQI* persons and allies. "Science and beλond" now started with a kick-off event...

24 November 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

New microscopy technique for quantum simulation

Illustration of a magnifying glass magnifying a hexagonal lattice structure

Photo: UHH/Felix Herbort

Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg have developed a new technique for quantum gas microscopy that now allows...

17 November 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Wolfgang Parak again among the "Highly Cited Researchers”

Photo: UHH/Dingler

Prof. Wolfgang Parak from the Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics at Universität Hamburg and researcher in the Cluster of Excellence...

12 November 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Haus der Lehre Wins Architecture Prize

„HAUS DER LEHRE – LIGHT & SCHOOLS“ auf dem Campus Bahrenfeld

Photo: hammeskrause architekten

Universität Hamburg’s Haus der Lehre—Light & Schools has been recognized as the 2020 building of the year by the Architekten- und Ingenieurverein...

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11 November 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2020 and 2021 awarded

group picture in front of the Hamburg skyline projected on the roof

Photo: © Joachim Herz Stiftung/Claudia Höhne

In the presence of Katharina Fegebank, Second Mayor and Science Senator of Hamburg, Eugene Demler and Valery Rubakov were honored yesterday with the...

11 November 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Hybrid annual meeting gives food for thought

People in front of and inside a research building

Photo: UHH/CUI

Discussing, networking, finding connections between the different research projects and working groups - these are traditionally the main goals of the...

3 November 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Quantum Physics in Proteins

Illustration eines Quantenwellenpakets in unmittelbarer Nähe einer konischen Durchschneidung zweier Quantenzustände.

Photo: DESY, Niels Breckwoldt

A new analytical technique is able to provide hitherto unattainable insights into the extremely rapid dynamics of biomolecules. The team of...

28 October 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Jie Shan and Prineha Narang will receive the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2021

Photo: P. Narang; private

Special honors for two outstanding female scientists: Jie Shan, professor of Applied and Engineering Physics and Physics at Cornell University (USA)...

15 October 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Review on ultrafast control of quantum materials

A red cloud hits a grid clamped between two contacts.

Photo: MPSD

A review involving a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), just published as a colloquium...

14 October 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Classes return to the school lab

A student watches as a female student holds a pink balloon on a pole, a camera can be seen on the right side of the picture

Photo: UHH/Light&Schools/Siegl

After a long break, the "Light & Schools" school lab has resumed its on-site offering on the Bahrenfeld campus. In the future, the focus will again be...

11 October 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Simplified way to predict quantum light-matter interactions

A stylized Berlin Wall made of red stones, in front of it a small copy in blue. Both cast equally large gray shadows on the wall.

Photo: Jörg Harms

When light interacts with matter, for example when a laser beam hits a two-dimensional material like graphene, it can substantially change the...

28 September 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

"Knowledge on tap": The 2021 vintage is launched purely digitally

Photo: UHH/Desy

How dangerous are black holes? And how does mosquito mail help against virus outbreaks? In "Knowledge on tap," scientists from the University of...

27 September 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Twisted layers of MoS2 enable the engineering of novel states of matter

Photo: Martin Claassen

A team of researchers from Germany, China and the United States has discovered that two twisted layers of MoS2 can be used to control kinetic energy...

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