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Prize for Theoretical Physics awarded
Yesterday quantum physicist Prof. Ignacio Cirac from Munich has received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. The Prize which comes with a personal prize money of 40,000 euro was given to the...
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The Molecular Breakdance of Seeing
Our sense of vision is based on highly choreographed, ultrafast molecular motions: The detection of light by pigments in the retina, called rhodopsin or visual purple, leads to our sense of vision. New...
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Göttingen Academy Prizes for researchers in Hamburg
Prof. Andrea Cavalleri and Dr. Melanie Schnell were awarded prizes of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities for their outstanding scientific works. They received the prizes during the...
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Kick-out in nanocrystals
Using high-resolution electron microscopy, a group of scientists around CUI Professor Horst Weller (Universität Hamburg) has succeeded in observing ion-exchange processes in nanocrystals. The team...
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Perfectly trained to England
Dr. Cornelius Gati has been awarded a long term postdoctoral fellowship by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO). The CUI scientist from the group of Prof Henry Chapman...
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“Scientific Career and Parenthood 2015″: Proven strategies and new perspectives
“Don´t think too much when it comes to balancing your children and career. It´s not always plannable”, was one of the panel guests’ advices at „Scientific Career and Parenthood”. Nevertheless, a career...
View ArticleRegistration for Graduate Days 2016 started
From 14 March to 17 March again a wide programme of scientific lectures, soft-skill and practical courses awaits master-students, PhDs and Post-Docs. Registration for the third CUI-Graduate Days is now...
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CUI PhD receives prize
Denise Erb and Timon Mehrling (DESY and Universität Hamburg) have both received the Promotionspreis 2015 of the Verein der Freunde und Förderer des DESY. The prize is given to an excellent doctoral...
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Atomic ballet in slow motion
An international team including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at CFEL in Hamburg has used a type of molecular camera to follow a fast-moving ballet...
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Mildred Dresselhaus Award: Call for Applications
CUI is now calling for nominations or self-applications to the „Mildred Dresselhaus Award 2016“. The award has been established in 2013 to promote outstanding female scientists. As in the previous...
View ArticleIntercultural Competence
On Friday, 29 January, from 9 am until 5 pm CUI invites all Phd candidates to the workshop “Intercultural Competence” in CFEL (build. 99). The topics of the workshop include intercultural perspectives...
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Optical funnel for nano particles
Researchers have developed a new method that promises a precise delivery of bio samples into X-ray beams for analysis: they designed an optical funnel that could focus a stream of proteins or viruses...
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Humboldt Fellowship
CUI scientist Dr. Xinxin Cheng has received a research fellowship for postdoctoral researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. The prestigious fellowship will start on 1 February 2018 and...
View ArticleNew Year’s Reception and Prize Ceremony
The CUI New Year’s Reception for invited guests on Wednesday, 20 January, starts at 6 pm in the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL, build. 99, Luruper Chaussee 149). As a highlight of this...
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Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship
Dr. Briony Yorke has been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome four year Postdoctoral Fellowship. Briony Yorke is a physical chemist who joined the group of CUI professor Arwen Pearson on day 1 in May 2014....
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The Lonsdale Lecture
CUI Professor Arwen Pearson will be giving the Lonsdale Lecture at the British Crystallographic Association (BCA) Spring Meeting. The British Crystallographic Association, formed in 1982 is the UK...
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Wetting Camphor
An international collaboration centered in CUI scientist Dr. Melanie Schnell’s group from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at CFEL carried out the first multi-isotopic...
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The cellular crystal factory
Scientists from the Wilmanns Group (European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL) have teamed up with experts across the research campus Bahrenfeld and at the U.S. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory...
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New Year’s Reception and Prize Ceremony
„When something happens for the third time in Hamburg, it is already called a tradition.“ With a twinkle in the eye CUI spokesperson Prof. Klaus Sengstock greeted the approximately 120 invited guests...
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Invitation to the Matthiae-Mahl
Great honor for CUI scientist Prof. Henry Chapman (Universität Hamburg, DESY): The highly valued scientist at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science has been invited to the Matthiae-Mahl on 12...
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