Facultyof Mathematics, Informatics
and Natural Sciences

In honour of particle physicist Beate Naroska, who taught and conducted research at Universität Hamburg from 1989 to 2008, the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe is offering both a junior and senior guest professorship for the first time in 2020 in cooperation with DESY. The guest professorships address young female...

The call for nominations or self-applications to the “Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2020” is now open. Acknowledging Mildred Dresselhaus’ achievements in science and equal opportunities, the “Mildred DresselhausGuest Professorship” was established by the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) in 2012 to...

Many of the molecular building blocks of life have two versions that are mirror images of one another, known as enantiomers. Although seemingly identical, the two enantiomers can have completely different chemical behaviour – a fact that has major implications in our day-to-day lives. For example, while one version of the...