News (2019)18 December 2019|MIN-enMildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship: call for nominationsPhoto: Columbia University, Collage Jana BackhausThe call for nominations or self-applications to the “Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2020” is now open. Acknowledging Mildred Dresselhaus’...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging of Matter17 December 2019|MIN-enUsing corkscrew lasers to separate mirror moleculesPhoto: DESY, Andrey YachmenevMany of the molecular building blocks of life have two versions that are mirror images of one another, known as enantiomers. Although seemingly...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights3 December 2019|MIN-enGöttingen Academy Award for Tobias BeckPhoto: Renate SchüttProf. Dr. Tobias Beck was awarded the Academy Prize 2019 for Chemistry at the annual celebration of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Beck...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging of Matter18 November 2019|MIN-enStart of the trilateral cooperation project inCELLphosTAGPhoto: UHH/MIN/SchoberFraunhofer IME ScreeningPort, Universität Hamburg and PerkinElmer, Inc. announce the start of the trilateral collaboration project, inCELLphosTAG...14 November 2019|MIN-enQuantum Physics Researcher Wins €137,036Photo: MicrosoftAustrian physicist Matthias Troyer has today been awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. At a ceremony held at Planetarium Hamburg, Troyer...20 September 2019|MIN-enMemorial symposium for Wilfried WurthPhoto: DESYOn Friday, friends and colleagues of Prof. Dr. Wilfried Wurth paid him their last respects at a memorial symposium held at the Center for...19 September 2019|MIN-enMentoring program dynaMENT enters fourth round and will be expandedPhoto: UHH/MIN/FuchsThe fourth round of the program dynaMENT "Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences" was kicked off with a festive event at the Center for Free-Electron...18 September 2019|MIN-enProf. Dr. Stefan Wermter elected President of the European Neural Network SocietyPhoto: privatThe European Neural Network Society (ENNS) has elected Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter from the University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics, Knowledge...5 September 2019|MIN-enOne million euros for inventory of galaxiesPhoto: ESO/BeletskyThe Universität Hamburg receives around 500,000 euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a spectrograph and supports its acquisition with a...23 August 2019|MIN-enSpontaneous occurrence of magnetic knots discoveredPhoto: UHH/MIN/KubetzkaSince their experimental discovery, magnetic skyrmions - tiny magnetic knots - have moved into the focus of research. Scientists from Hamburg and Kiel...14 August 2019|MIN-enHow bacteria absorb vital ironPhoto: UHH, Tidow groupA research team from the Department of Chemistry at the Universität Hamburg has succeeded in analyzing the structure of a special protein that helps...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights9 August 2019|MIN-enNew Concept for High Quality Plasma AcceleratorsPhoto: DESY/UHH/PousaScientists have proposed a new concept for so-called plasma accelerators that could overcome some of the current limitations of this technology. These...1 August 2019|MIN-enNew Emmy Noether group studies complex materialsPhoto: UHH/MIN/FuchsThe German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Emmy Noether junior research group at the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg...30 July 2019|MIN-enScientists film molecular rotationPhoto: DESY, Evangelos Karamatskos/Britta LiebaugScientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting “molecular movie” tracks one...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights26 July 2019|MIN-enOn the way to robust quantum computersPhoto: UHH/MIN/Kim/WiesendangerResearchers at the University of Hamburg have for the first time detected Majorana states at the edges of iron islands on superconducting rhenium...26 July 2019|MIN-enNew Professorship for Discrete MathematicsPhoto: privatDr. Felix Joos has accepted the call to the W1 professorship for "Discrete Mathematics" at the University of Hamburg and will start his work at the...25 July 2019|MIN-enNew Professorships in Mathematics and PhysicsPhoto: privat/ISO K° photographyDr. Oliver Gerberding has accepted the call for a W1 (Tenure Track W2) professorship for "Gravitational Wave Detection" and Dr. Julian Holstein...16 July 2019|MIN-enNew W1 professorship at the Department of Chemistry and in the Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of MatterPhoto: Renate SchüttDr. Tobias Beck has accepted the call for the W1 TT W2 professorship for "Inorganic or Physical Chemistry with a Focus on Structure and Dynamics of...11 July 2019|MIN-enExperimental mini-accelerator achieves record energyPhoto: DESY, Gesine BornScientists at DESY and Universität Hamburg have achieved a new world record for an experimental type of miniature particle accelerator: For the first...Contribution from the news channel Advanced Imaging Highlights28 June 2019|MIN-enFrom Harvard to HamburgPhoto: UHH/MIN/FuchsAnna Biggs studies mathematics and physics at Harvard University. In 2018, the twenty-year-old completed a research internship of several months with...More articles