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20th Women in Physics Conference: Experiencing research, questioning stereotypes
What are the current questions in research? What are women physicists investigating? Are the strategies for the promotion of women still up to date? The 20th Women in Physics Conference, where female...
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High-speed camera snaps bio-switch in action
With a powerful X-ray camera, scientists have watched a genetic switch at work for the first time. The study led by Yun-Xing Wang from the National Cancer Institute of the U.S. reveals the ultrafast...
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Prof. Dr. Günter Huber selected for Russian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Günter Huber has been selected as a foreign member at this year’s meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. With this distinction, the Academy honors the pioneering work of the CUI member in...
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Watching chemical reactions at work using a tabletop laser and...
A team of researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Jena and DESY has paved the way for using conventional lasers to observe chemical bonds being broken apart. For their experiments, the scientists –...
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Andrea Cavalleri elected AAAS Fellow
“For pioneering contributions to the development and use of ultrafast and ultra-intense laser fields to create and probe photo induced phase transitions in correlated electron materials,” CUI member...
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Scientists shrink electron gun to matchbox size
In a multi-national effort, an interdisciplinary team of researchers has built a new kind of electron gun that is just about the size of a matchbox. Electron guns are used in science to generate...
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Molecules change shape when wet
Water promotes the reshaping of molecules. By means of broadband rotational spectroscopy a team of scientists around CUI researcher Dr. Melanie Schnell from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure...
View ArticleScientific Career and Parenthood
The yearly event of information and discussion, which focusses on the challenge of balancing scientific careers and family, will take place on Tuesday, 6 December 2016. “Scientific Career and...
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Wissen vom Fass: Experiencing current research in a bar
“My head is no particle accelerator”, a guest in Max & Consorten has put it with a smile. Nevertheless, she was apparently taking great pleasure in Prof. Haller´s lecture – being one of 80 guests...
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Light-driven atomic rotations excite magnetic waves
Controlling functional properties by light is one of the grand goals in modern condensed matter physics and materials science. A new study now demonstrates how the ultrafast light-induced modulation of...
View ArticleGraduate Days: Register now
Registration is open for the Graduate Days 2017 from Monday, 13 March, to Thursday, 16 March. The yearly event includes a scientific course program plus practical and soft skills workshops and is...
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Laser metronome achieves record synchronization
Scientists at DESY have set up the world’s most precise ‘metronome’ for a kilometre-wide network. The timing system synchronizes a 4.7-kilometer-long laser-microwave network with 950 attoseconds...
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A Jewel of Equal Opportunities
Together with 80 guests, CUI honored the Mildred Dresselhaus Awardees 2016, Prof. Christiane Morais Smith and Dr. Friederike Ernst, during its New Year’s reception in the Center for Free-Electron Laser...
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European XFEL: Researchers can hand in first proposals for experiments
For the first time, scientists from around the world can now submit their proposals for experiments at the European XFEL. The international science facility in the Hamburg metropolitan region published...
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First experimental verification of a phononic frequency comb
A theoretical prediction by CUI scientist Prof. Peter Schmelcher (Universität Hamburg) has just been impressively confirmed: Investigating the behavior of phonons in a rectangular wafer of silicon,...
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Always deciding on good instinct
Dr. Friederike Ernst didn’t have a role model for a career in the natural sciences – at least not in her family. She always trusted her instinct and decided for options that sounded interesting and...
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Experiment in space
In a few days a carrier rocket will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS). Samples from Prof. Christian Betzel’s research group at Universität Hamburg will be aboard to be analyzed in...
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Dynamics of electron clouds unravelled
A US-German research team has elucidated the ultra-fast dynamics of electron clouds in xenon atoms. Using attosecond technology, the scientists around Prof. Stephen R. Leone from the University of...
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Scientists analyze smallest ever protein crystals
An international team of scientists has used high-intensity X-ray pulses to determine the structure of the crystalline protein envelope of an insect virus. Their analysis reveals the fine details of...
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Mildred Dresselhaus dies at 86
MIT Institute Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneer in the electronic properties of materials, died Monday at age 86. Credit: Ed Quinn Mildred S. Dresselhaus was a celebrated Institute Professor...
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