News (2024)19 December 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterPresentation of the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize 2024Photo: Eva PetersThe winners of the 2024 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize have expressed their gratitude for the award in very moving words. Prof. Sonia Coriani from the...19 December 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsLong-lived magnetic state induced by intense ultrashort laser pulsesPhoto: Sampson Wilcox, Research Laboratory of Electronics at MITResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) and MIT have successfully created a new, long-lasting magnetic...16 December 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsResearchers succeed in controlling quantum states in a new energy rangePhoto: Elettra Sincrotrone,TriesteAn international team of scientists, with participation of DESY and the cluster of excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" has succeeded in...6 December 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsQuantum light in optical cavities enhances superconductivity in MgB₂Photo: I-Te LuResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have made a groundbreaking advancement in light-controlled...5 December 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTracking the medication taxisPhoto: DESY, Marvin SkibaHow can cancer drugs be delivered safely to their destination? An international team of researchers has been using the X-ray source PETRA III to test...26 November 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterUnderstanding nano: scientists develop simple experiments for complex conceptsPhoto: Sarodi Jonak DuttaWhen bulk materials are reduced in size to the nanometer scale, in particular, their surface-to-volume ratio increases drastically. Researchers from...14 November 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterPrestigious ERC Synergy Grant “UnMySt” for MPSD’s Theory DepartmentPhoto: MPSDMPSD Director Angel Rubio along with an elite team of world-renowned scientists— Tal Schwartz (Tel Aviv University), Thomas Ebbesen (University of...13 November 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsWatching protein cross-linkers break – and reform remarkably fastPhoto: Jessica HarichAn international team of scientists has used extremely short X-ray flashes to understand the first steps in the light-induced breaking of disulfide...30 October 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterdynaMENT kick-off breaks new groundPhoto: Eva PetersDaring to try something new, facilitating change - these are topics that come up again and again in the mentoring process. This year, the kick-off of...25 October 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsTowards new reaction pathways: insights on molecular dynamics in the ultrashort time window following UV excitationPhoto: Nicoletta CalegariThe Attosecond Science group at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science has developed a novel light source capable of producing extremely short...16 October 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterWelcome aboard: Prof. Dr. Peter Schauss strengthens the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural SciencesPhoto: PrivateEvery year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: Prof. Dr...Contribution from the university's newsroom9 October 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterPhilip Moll honored with APS FellowshipPhoto: MPSDMPSD Director Philip Moll has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). In its citation, the Society highlights his achievements...2 October 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterNew webinar series on mental healthPhoto: PixabayThe Clusters of Excellence at the University of Hamburg have joined forces to provide a more extensive webinar offer on mental health. Together with...24 September 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsPhysicists employ ion microscope to observe unusual collisions in slow-motionPhoto: UHH, AG SchmelcherWith the help of a novel ion microscope experiment, researchers at the Universities of Stuttgart and Hamburg have observed and understood the...21 August 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterValuable experience at the CUI summer school in SchwerinPhoto: CUI Graduate SchoolFive days full of exciting research highlights, discussions, and science slams awaited the students during the CUI Graduate Summer School in July...31 July 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsHow to disable a penicillin killerPhoto: Andreas Prester, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf UKE)Antibiotic resistance is a major and particularly in recent years a growing challenge in medicine. Scientists around the world are searching for new...31 July 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsFrom a continuous to a discrete time crystalPhoto: AG HemmerichAn international team of physicists from Universität Hamburg, the University of the Philippines, and the University of São Paulo has recently observed...29 July 2024|Advanced Imaging of MatterHALRIC Conference Life Sciences in the Science CityPhoto: J.M. Harms MPSD/CFELThe HALRIC research alliance is a unique project to promote life sciences collaboration in northern Germany and Scandinavia. From 24–25 September...Contribution from the university's newsroom29 July 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsEuropean XFEL creates exotic matterPhoto: European XFELExperiments at European XFEL generate states of matter close to what occurs in the interior of planets or in the imploding capsule of an inertial...24 July 2024|Advanced Imaging HighlightsObserved live for the first time: photocatalysts switch off a virusPhoto: Mona Kohantorabi, DESY NanoLabAn international research team led by DESY scientists has been able to observe for the first time how the whitening agent titanium dioxide inactivates...More articlesA project of Universität Hamburg in cooperation with
