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The MIN faculty, the cluster of excellence “CUI” and the UKE invite all of their Postdocs, Postdocs in a group leader position and associate professors (PDs und Juniorprofessorinnen) to participate in this year’s Academic Leadership Programme for Women which focuses on "research funding and...

On April 12th/13th this year’s Women’s Career Day will take place in Bahrenfeld. Participants can choose from four tailor-made workshops. You are invited to develop and strengthen key skills that will be very useful for your present and future professional career, be that within academia or in...

The call for applications for the 3rd round of dynaMENT Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences is now open.

The program is designed for women* in natural sciences, planning to pursue a career in science. It offers confidential one-to-one sessions with an experienced mentor over a period of 12...

The Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB) will be under new scientific management as of 2018: Prof. Dr. Chris Meier from the Department of Chemistry at Universität Hamburg takes over from Prof. Dr. Matthias Wilmanns from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). On 25 October...

Landscapes made from nano structures, Caribbean sea snails and boiling elements: In more than one hundred pictures, members of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences (MIN) present their work. The MIN faculty had launched the photo competition “Zeigt her Eure Forschung!”...

Prof. Henry N. Chapman, Professor of Physics at Universität Hamburg, Leading Scientist at DESY and board member at CUI, has been named honorary doctor at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University in Sweden. The title of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy will be conferred on...

For the first time, a plasma accelerator at DESY has produced X-rays. The LUX installation, which is headed by Andreas Maier of the University of Hamburg, created ultra-short pulses of radiation with a wavelength of nine nanometres (millionths of a millimetre), corresponding to so-called soft...

“Now I am more confident to pursue the next steps in my career", says Dr. Carmen Diez Pardos. The physicist at the DESY CMS group participated in the first round of the Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences programme. The programme is organised jointly by the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast...

The Biocenter Klein Flottbek at Universität Hamburg presents a new scientific outreach event in Loki Schmidt House—Museum for Useful Plants: Science Sundays. Come along and find out all about current research on plants at the Biocenter as well as the work of the Museum. ...
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Hardwood alluvial forests play a major role in the natural flood areas of river landscapes (flood retention). In order to better understand the ecology and the spatial and temporal manifestations of alluvial forest activity, researchers will investigate ...
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How do emotions and stress affect learning and how good are adults at solving everyday math problems? Hamburg researchers can now search for the answers to these and many other questions. ...

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