News (2025)6 November 2025|Advanced Imaging of MatterThe ultrafast meets the ultrashort: CUI team awarded prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for IDEAA projectPhoto: privateA team of scientists from the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” at the University of Hamburg and from DESY has been awarded a...30 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...More articlesA project of Universität Hamburg in cooperation with
