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8 July 2026|Equal Opportunity

Mildred Dresselhaus Award 2026 goes to Shuyun Zhou and Suzy Zhang

Prof. Shuyun Zhou from Tsinghua University, China, and Prof. Suzy Zhang from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University, Japan, have been awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2026 by the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). The program includes an extended research stay at...

Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging of Matter
Künstlerische Darstellung eines Quasars: Im Zentrum befindet sich eine hell leuchtende Scheibe aus rot-orange glühender Materie, die spiralförmig in ein supermassereiches Schwarzes Loch strömt. Aus dem Zentrum tritt ein schmaler Materiestrahl hervor.

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6 July 2026|Publication

Euclid discovers the oldest quasars in the universe

An international team, including researchers from the University of Hamburg Observatory, has discovered 31 of the oldest quasars ever found using the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. Two of these massive galactic nuclei now break the record for the earliest quasars ever observed in cosmic history and offer...

The scientific illustration shows the oscillations as circles of varying sizes.

Photo: C. Nowoczyn, K.Seibold

1 July 2026|MIN-en

Universal quantum melting of quasiperiodic dynamics

Between simple periodic motion and chaos, nonlinear systems can display complex rhythms that never exactly repeat. In a new theoretical study, selected as an Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review A, researchers from the University of Hamburg and the University of Konstanz show how such quasiperiodic motion survives in open...

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At the trigger station in the CMS control room at CERN: Dr. Artur Lobanov (far right) and Lukas Ebeling (3rd from right) together with other members of the UHH team (from left: R. Heine, B. Letzer, B. Weidner, L. Markus).

Photo: AG Haller

26 June 2026|Research

Artificial Intelligence Speeds Up Higgs Research at CERN

At CERN, millions of particle collisions occur every second—far too many to store them all. A clever filtering system therefore decides in real time which data are worth keeping. Researchers from the University of Hamburg in the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe have now integrated artificial intelligence directly into...

Contribution from the news channel Quantum Universe
Die wissenschaftliche Illustration zeigt die Virushülle auf der linken Seite und den verformten Inhalt rechts.

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25 June 2026|MIN-en

Viruses under stress: how viral shells change shape as they dry out

When viruses travel through the air in tiny droplets, they can quickly start to dry out. Yet many viruses remain infectious after rehydration—something that is still not fully understood. Now, an international team of researchers have directly observed at the European XFEL how the protein shells of viruses can change shape...

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24 June 2026|Campus

New European Postdoctoral Fellowship for Quantum Universe

Dr. Dimitra Spathara, a materials scientist specializing in computational thermodynamics and advanced alloy design, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will carry out her project, called PureCuAlloys, within the research group of Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Nikolopoulos within the Cluster of...

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