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Lab tour for senior citizens
How does a laser work? What is a photon? How do atoms induce light? With great interest a group of 20 senior citizens has looked into physical questions. For 1.5 hours CUI member Dr. Philipp Wessels...
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How do small sugars bind to each other?
Glycolaledehyde, the smallest sugar, is an important player in the discussion on the origin of life in space. A team of scientists led by CUI member Dr. Melanie Schnell (Max Planck Institute for the...
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Everything fell into place at this year’s Girls’ Day
“TV, mobile phone and so on – today I finally understood the technical background”, an enthusiastic girl says. In the context of the nationwide Girls’ Day on April 28, 12 girls of grade 5 and 6 built...
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High-speed camera snaps biosensor’s rapid reaction to light
Using a high-speed X-ray camera, an international team of scientist revealed the ultrafast response of a biosensor to light. The study, published in the US journal Science, shows light-driven atomic...
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Custom-made drugs to outwit hospital germs
Together with colleagues from Brazil and China, Hamburg scientists working on DESY’s X-ray light sources have developed a promising approach for outsmarting hospital germs that are resistant to...
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R. J. Dwayne Miller wins prestigious prize
CUI spokesperson R. J. Dwayne Miller is the Royal Society of Chemistry “Centenary Prize” winner for 2016. The prize recognizes outstanding overseas chemists, who are exceptional communicators, and...
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Berry curvature of a Bloch band measured for the first time
The research group of CUI member Prof. Klaus Sengstock (Universität Hamburg) has for the first time succeeded in measuring the Berry curvature in a lattice system. Thus a fundamental building block in...
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Third International Summer School of Crystallography
More than 34 participants from 15 countries have come to attend this year’s Summer School of Cristallography (ISSC) in the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL). For a week they discussed the...
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Controlling quantum tunnelling with a single ion
Quantum tunnelling is one of the weirdest effects predicted by quantum mechanics: Even though a moving quantum particle has a lower energy than some potential barrier, it will cross or rather tunnel...
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Federal Ministry of Education and Research grants Two Million Euro for...
Grant will position Hamburg as leader in time-resolved structural biology Universität Hamburg has been awarded two million Euro from the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) for a joint...
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Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) on Campus Bahrenfeld
„How does this work?“ A new Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) knowledge series goes to the bottom of this question. Each Wednesday at 6.15 pm the audience may look behind the scenes. On 15 June the focus is...
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R. J. Dwayne Miller becomes Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
In recognition of his significant contributions to the chemical sciences and in particular his contributions to femtosecond electron diffraction, CUI spokesperson R. J. Dwayne Miller has been invited...
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Dr. Karl-Robert Brauns Prize for Ophthalmology 2016
A joint research team of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf has received the Dr. Karl-Robert Brauns Prize for...
View ArticleAdapted improv theatre games
Registration for the two-day workshop of the Women’s Career Day 2016 from 30 June until 1 July is still open. The course will use adapted improv theatre games and role plays for academic scientists’...
View ArticlePresenting a poster like a pro
On Wednesday, 29 June, Mildred Dresselhaus Awardee Prof. Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford) will host a session on poster presentation. The session with the title “Presenting a Poster Like a Pro:...
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New building for CUI research incorporated into funding
33 million for new research building at Universität Hamburg: The federal and state Joint Science Conference (GWK) has incorporated the Hamburg Advanced Research Centre for Bioorganic Chemistry (HARBOR)...
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Unexpected flexibility found in odorant molecules
High resolution rotational spectroscopy reveals an unprecedented number of conformations of an odorant molecule. In a recent publication in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, researchers...
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Berry curvature of a Bloch band measured for the first time
The research group of CUI member Prof. Klaus Sengstock (Universität Hamburg) has for the first time succeeded in measuring the Berry curvature in a lattice system. Thus a fundamental building block in...
View ArticleStudent teachers visit Light & Schools
More than 15 student teachers from all over Hamburg visited Light & Schools to peak into the school lab on Campus Bahrenfeld and get an impression of its possibilities. Physics student Bastian...
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Berry curvature of a Bloch band measured for the first time
The research group of CUI member Prof. Klaus Sengstock (Universität Hamburg) has for the first time succeeded in measuring the Berry curvature in a lattice system. Thus a fundamental building block in...
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