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18 June 2021|Internal

FAQ on the coronavirus and its impact on Universität Hamburg

Das Hauptgebäude der Universtität Hamburg.

Photo: UHH/Schell

How are examinations currently taking place? What rules are in place for working from home? You will find answers to the most important questions on...

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17 June 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Series for Young Researchers successfully completed

Photo: CUI, Graduate School

With a series of "Young Researcher Meetings" that has just ended, the Graduate School has found a way to mitigate some of the disadvantages of the...

16 June 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Quantum researcher Eugene Demler receives Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

Eugene Demler in fornt of a board and a bookshelf

Photo: Joachim Herz Stiftung

The Russian-American researcher Eugene Demler is to receive the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2021. Demler, who has been a physics professor...

15 June 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

White Paper of the Centre for Molecular Water Science published

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More than 45 institutions from Europe and across the globe have joined in an initiative for a new research centre at DESY, unveiling the many secrets...

9 June 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Molecules & Schools at mint:pink - experiment with soap bubbles shows the diversity of chemistry

Team screenshot of Nils Dageförde, Dr. Skadi Kull, Maren Hinz and Tim Wagner

Photo: Molecules & Schools

Even with very simple means, it is possible to show impressively what chemistry can do. For the mint:pink program day "Chemistry and Biochemistry,"...

8 June 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Team hunts down elusive phonoriton with light trapped in a cavity

Illustration of the phonoriton, a three-way hybrid particle made up of excitons, phonons and photons.

Photo: U. de Giovannini / S. Latini / J. Harms, MPSD

Scientists at the MPSD and the MIT have come up with a prediction that trapped light can be used to create a new kind of particle in a solid...

7 June 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

New call for dynaMENT mentoring

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The call for applications for a new round of dynaMENT Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences is now open. The program is designed for women in...

27 May 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Multiple Sclerosis: one disease, 1.000 faces, three research projects

The photo shows a magnetic resonance imaging.

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Around 250.000 people in Germany suffer from multiple sclerosis. Despite the very individual courses, all cases have one thing in common: MS is not...

26 May 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

James McIver accepts assistant professor position at Columbia University

Photo: MPSD

Dr. James McIver, the leader of the Non-Equilibrium Transport in Quantum Materials group, has accepted an assistant professor position with the...

20 May 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

A perfect gap in Majorana’s world

The image show the gap in the Manganese chain.

Photo: UHH/MIN/Schneider

Researchers from the Department of Physics and the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” have revealed how electronic bands form...

20 May 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

Ultrafast lasers can protect a DNA building block from light-induced dissociation

Artist´s impression of the ultrafast stabilisation of adenine against dissociation

Photo: U. De Giovannini, MPSD

An international research team led by Francesca Calegari, who is a leading scientist at DESY and a Professor at Universität Hamburg, has demonstrated...

18 May 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

On the situation of young researchers in Germany: BuWiN reinforces the cluster's strategy

Photo: wbv-Verlag / Marion Schnepf and Andreas Koch

How are young researchers doing in Germany? How are the conditions under which young researchers live and work? The recently published "Bundesbericht...

18 May 2021|Advanced Imaging Highlights

New approach to calculate electron traffic jam in transition metal dichalcogenide

Three figures showing the geometry of 1T-TaS2 and the computed band structures.

Photo: Dongbin Shin, MPSD

Though they both consist only of H2O molecules, water and ice exhibit apparently distinct characters: The former is solid and the latter is the very...

11 May 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Nature Publication on Coronavirus Research at Universität Hamburg

Model of the corona virus showing the spikes

Photo: The Coronavirus Structural Task Force / K. Nolte and SciStyle.com / T. Splettstößer

Fighting the coronavirus has changed the way the international scientific community works together and intensified collaboration. Dr. Andrea Thorn...

7 May 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

New overview of professorial search procedures

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Since April, the MIN Faculty has been publishing an up-to-date overview of ongoing professorial search procedures on the Office of the Dean’s website...

6 May 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Mildred Dresselhaus Guestprofessorship 2021: call for nominations and applications

Photo of Mildred Dresselhaus as a young woman in the lab

Photo: Columbia University, Collage Jana Backhaus

Applications and nominations for the "Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program 2021" are now open. The aim of the program is to promote...

6 May 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

CUI News: New insights into basic research

Collage of the magazine cover and questions

Photo: CUI

The latest issue of CUI News is ready. For the first time, we are making the magazine available online first. As soon as the pandemic allows, printed...

3 May 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Individual support for young researchers

Young Investigators Dr. Philipp Wessels Staarmann (left) and Irene Fernandez-Cuesta

Photo: DESY, Lars Berg / privat

The Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter has launched a new funding concept: The aim of the "Young Investigator Group Leader" concept...

28 April 2021|Advanced Imaging of Matter

New Doctoral Program in Structural Biology and Infection Research

Photo: Unistra/Catherine Schröder

Researchers from Universität Hamburg and the University of Strasbourg have established a Franco-German program for doctoral researchers working at the...