News30 October 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterdynaMENT: An entertaining and festive kick-off event to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the mentoring programPhoto: UHH/CUI, Cordula KropkeThis year, the dynaMENT program's kick-off event was all about celebrating its tenth anniversary. Previous participants were given a festive send-off...21 October 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTwo-dimensional quantum materials act as cavitiesPhoto: Brad BaxleyQuantum materials are a fascinating platform for future technologies, as they host a variety of exotic phenomena beyond the reach of classical...16 October 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsFighting antibiotic resistance: DESY scientists advance drug development with room-temperature X‐ray screeningPhoto: DESYCUI member Prof. Henry Chapman and researchers at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL at DESY have developed a new room-temperature X‐ray...13 October 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsA new type of light-controlled non-volatile memoryPhoto: MPSD/Jörg HarmsFerroic materials, like ferromagnets and ferroelectrics, are central building blocks of modern data storage technology. Yet, current platforms face...10 October 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterThe University’s Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Turns 20!Photo: Universität Hamburg/MIN/FuchsThe Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg will celebrate its twentieth anniversary with a festive...Contribution from the university's newsroom9 October 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterFrom the tunnel effect to quantum computers: Nobel Prize in Physics honors fundamental research in quantum mechanicsPhoto: Electron Studios, UHH, MoritzIn quantum physics, many events are random. Classical determinism does apply to other areas no longer apply here, and yet these concepts form the...3 October 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsMicroscopy: Researchers call for greater awareness of AI challengesPhoto: Nature, reprint with permissionThere has been enormous progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI). Even highly sophisticated microscope images can now be faked with ease...17 September 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsShedding light on Insulators: How light pulses unfreeze ElectronsPhoto: T. Rossi /HZBMetal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer from poor electrical...8 September 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsAtomic nuclei in interaction: new insights into collective quantum behaviourPhoto: DESY/Leon M. Lohse“The whole is more than the sum of its parts” – even in quantum physics. Quantum objects, even simple ones such as atoms with only two possible energy...4 September 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterExploring Superfluidity with Quantum GasesPhoto: PrivateDr. César Cabrera Córdova, an experimental physicist at the University of Hamburg, has been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the European...21 August 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsSymmetry-based Floquet Optical Selection Rules for light-induced SidebandsPhoto: Fan et al.Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), in collaboration with international partners, have developed...7 August 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsRevealing quantum fluctuations in complex moleculesPhoto: European XFELDue to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum physics, atoms and molecules never come completely to rest, even in their lowest energy state...30 July 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTracking enzymes in action: new 5D crystallography method captures protein dynamics at physiological temperaturesPhoto: Eike Schulz, Pedram Mehrabi mit ChatGTPA research team from Hamburg has developed a novel method that allows for time-resolved structural studies of proteins across a wide temperature...18 July 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterSummer party with award ceremony, lectures and hands-on activitiesPhoto: Eva PetersThere were several reasons to celebrate at the CUI summer party: the extension of the Cluster of Excellence, the past seven years, and the new winners...17 July 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterAttosecond project receives around 1.4 million Euros in funding from the BMBFPhoto: M. Ilchen with material from [ https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.011001 and https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.03858] and pixabay.comA consortium of researchers from the University of Hamburg, and DESY together with the European XFEL and the Technical University of Dortmund have...16 July 2025|Advanced Imaging Highlights2014 Nobel Prize idea used to reach super-resolution at European XFELPhoto: Stacy Huang/Argonne National LaboratoryA new method turns noise into valuable data to enhance understanding of chemical reactions and material properties with unprecedented detail on atomic...15 July 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterCeremonial presentation of the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2025Photo: UHH, Leonie GöttlingProf. Teresa Pellegrino and Dr. Zala Lenarčič were awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2025 for their outstanding research work at a ceremony hosted...14 July 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterRoyal visit to the Cluster of Excellence CUIPhoto: UHH/EsfandiariDuring her visit to Hamburg, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand toured the Bahrenfeld campus, specifically the Cluster of Excellence “CUI...3 July 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsNonlinear x-ray scattering reveals exotic quasi-particlesPhoto: DESY, Xenia BrockmüllerObserving first signatures of polaritons at extreme-ultraviolet wavelengths opens a new pathway to explore light-matter interactions for fundamental...19 June 2025|Advanced Imaging HighlightsUnveiling the hidden role of vacuum fluctuations in cavity materialsPhoto: J. M. Harms / MPSDResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have theoretically demonstrated that photons trapped inside an...Show all newsA project of Universität Hamburg in cooperation with
