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...
View ArticleGoing 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....
View ArticleX-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...
View ArticleAndrea 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...
View ArticleWorld’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...
View ArticleInternational 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...
View ArticleHigh-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...
View ArticleWater 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....
View ArticleScientific 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...
View ArticleHirosi 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...
View ArticledynaMENT – 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...
View ArticleCUI 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...
View ArticlePeter 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...
View ArticleECIS 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...
View ArticleMentoring 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...
View ArticleInvisible 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...
View ArticleX-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...
View ArticleCUI 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...
View ArticleEuropean 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...
View ArticleUltracold 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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