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US scientist receives CUI award

The Mildred Dresselhaus Junior Award 2017 goes to Prof. Dr. Tanya Zevelinsky, associate professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics at Columbia University, New York, USA. Zevelinsky will be...

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Going for natural sciences on Girls’ and Boys’ Day

Campus Bahrenfeld was hard to recognize on 26 April 2018, this year’s Girls’ and Boys’ Day: boys and girls strolled around in small and large groups, marvelling at the labs and discussing experiments....

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X-ray laser opens new view on Alzheimer proteins

A new experimental method permits the X-ray analysis of amyloids, a class of large, filamentous biomolecules which are an important hallmark of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. An...

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Andrea Cavalleri is elected member of the European Academy of Sciences

Andrea Cavalleri, the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and a Professor of Physics at Oxford University, has been elected member of the European...

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World’s fastest water heater – 100,000 degrees in 0.000 000 000 000 075 seconds

Scientists have used a powerful X-ray laser to heat water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a tenth of a picosecond (millionth of a millionth of a second). The experimental...

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International Day of Families

On 18 May 2018 from 3 – 5 pm the family offices at the higher education institutions in Hamburg together with Hochschulsport Hamburg, the clusters of excellence, and various cooperation partners will...

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High-energy X-ray method promises 3D images of intact biological cells

A concept for a novel X-ray microscope promises three-dimensional images of delicate objects like biological cells using a thousand times less damaging radiation than conventional methods. The novel...

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Water is not simply water

Water molecules exist in two different forms with almost identical physical properties. For the first time, researchers have now shown that these forms can exhibit different chemical reactivities....

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Scientific Career and Parenthood

The balance between a scientific career and family is often viewed as challenging and difficult. In particular limited work contracts, the necessity of national and international mobility as well as...

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Hirosi Ooguri awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

This year’s Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, endowed with 100 000 euros, is awarded to the Japanese scientist Hirosi Ooguri. Ooguri, born in 1962, is a professor at California Institute of...

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dynaMENT – kick off ceremony

Anyone wishing to progress in his or her career needs a good guide — some mentees are putting trust in the support of their mentors for many years. Therefore, we are very pleased to start the 3rd round...

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CUI to receive Equal Opportunity Prize 2018 of Universität Hamburg

Gender equality, diversity and work-life balance are the criteria underlying the Equal Opportunity Prize, which will now be awarded for the third time by Universität Hamburg. Via its Equal Opportunity...

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Peter Schmelcher elected into Topical Group of American Physical Society

Prof. Peter Schmelcher, from the Center for Optical Quantum Technologies of Universität Hamburg, has been elected by the American Physical Society into the executive committee of the Topical Group on...

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ECIS prize for Horst Weller

Prof. Horst Weller, Head of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Universität Hamburg, is to receive the “Colloid & Interface Science Award, sponsored by Solvay” of the European Colloid and...

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Mentoring stimulates individual careers and the campus as a whole

The criteria that are necessary to succeed in science are given and have to be fulfilled. The path to success, however, is a broad playing field in which professional mentoring can be extremely...

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Invisible deuterium makes membrane proteins visible

An international team of researchers led by CUI member Prof. Henning Tidow of Universität Hamburg has found a new method for analyzing membrane proteins. The team made use of the special nature of a...

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X-ray laser opens new view on Alzheimer proteins

A new experimental method permits the X-ray analysis of amyloids, a class of large, filamentous biomolecules which are an important hallmark of diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. An...

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CUI to receive Equal Opportunity Prize 2018 of Universität Hamburg

For its particular engagement in empowering (young) female scientists in physics combined with positive effects on the whole science community, the organizing team of the “Mildred Dresselhaus Guest...

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European Physical Society prize for R. J. Dwayne Miller

MPSD director R.J. Dwayne Miller is to receive the 2018 European Physical Society (EPS) Prize for Laser Science and Applications in recognition of his work on the SurePIRL project. The Picosecond...

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Ultracold atoms and ultrafast lasers: Hamburg scientists combine experimental...

Two separate research fields have been united in Hamburg for the very first time. Ultrashort laser pulses enable us to observe and manipulate matter on very short time scales, whereas ultracold atoms...

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