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Crystals in a pink X-ray beam
A newly developed experimental set-up allows the X-ray structure determination of biomolecules such as proteins with far smaller samples and shorter exposure times than before. At so-called synchrotron...
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Andrea Cavalleri receives Frank Isakson prize
Professor Andrea Cavalleri has been awarded the 2018 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids by the APS. The Frank Isakson Prize is awarded biennially for outstanding optical research which...
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Honorary doctorate for Prof. R. J. Dwayne Miller
Prof. R. J. Dwayne Miller has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo in Canada for his scientific achievements. He is a director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure...
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Visitor record at the Night of Knowledge
The 7th Night of Knowledge respectively the DESY DAY 2017 ended with a record of more than 20,000 visitors on Campus Bahrenfeld. More than 10,000 young and old found their way to the Center for...
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US researcher receives prize for work on superconductivity
The Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, which includes prize money of 40,000 euros, was presented to the American physicist Andrew Millis today. Millis receives the prize in recognition of his work...
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A mixtape for drug discovery
Scientists have developed a new method that enables automated and fast screening of promising drug candidates. This novel technique, called mix-and-diffuse serial synchrotron crystallography, can image...
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Max Born Prize 2018 for MPSD director Angel Rubio
The managing director of the MPSD, Prof Angel Rubio, is to receive the German Physical Society’s Max Born Prize 2018. © MPSD The Society (the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, or DPG) is...
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Clear commitment to science
On 28 November 2017 Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz delivered a major speech to the Übersee Club, presenting the senate’s aims with regard to science. The speech contains a clear commitment to Hamburg as a...
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Award for school project
CUI’s „Light & Schools“ team is feeling great joy: a project at Gymnasium Corveystraße, which was developed together with the school lab, has been awarded by the Claussen-Simon-Stiftung in the...
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Novel lenses enable X-ray microscopy with record resolution
Scientists have developed novel lenses that enable X-ray microscopy with record resolution in the nanometre regime. Using new materials, the research team led by DESY scientist Saša Bajt from the...
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Call for Agathe-Lasch-Coaching plus divers
For the first time, CUI is participating in the Agathe Lasch Coaching and under certain circumstances also male scientists may apply. The call is now open: applications for “Agathe-Lasch-Coaching plus...
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New phenomena in quantum matter observed – scientists at Universität Hamburg...
For the first time, scientists of CUI, a cluster of excellence at Universität Hamburg, have observed a dynamical quantum phase transition in ultracold quantum gases. These gases, which are almost at...
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Groundbreaking for HARBOR
The new “Hamburg Advanced Research Centre for Bioorganic Chemistry” (HARBOR) on Campus Bahrenfeld will create the infrastructure within the MIN Faculty (Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural...
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Projects honored by DFG as models
Ten equal opportunity projects of Universität Hamburg have been selected for the DFG toolbox, among them the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship Program and further projects supported by CUI. The...
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The registration to the CUI Graduate Days 2018 is possible immediately. The Graduate Days take place from March 19 to March 22, 2018, at the Campus Bahrenfeld, Luruper Chaussee 149. Further information...
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Scientists decipher key principle behind reaction of metalloenzymes
What enables electrons to be transferred swiftly, for example during photosynthesis? An interdisciplinary team of researchers has worked out the details of how important bioinorganic electron transfer...
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Neu Year’s Reception and Price Ceremony
Prof. Dr. Anna Krylov, Professor of Chemistry and Gabilan Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Southern California will receive the Mildred Dresselhaus Award 2017....
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The foundations are laid
The school lab „Light & Schools“ will get its own building: the foundations for the „HAUS DER LEHRE – LIGHT & SCHOOLS“ were laid last week. The new building will broaden Universität Hamburg’s...
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More recognition for women in science
Around 80 guests followed CUI´s invitation to the New Year’s Reception in the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science including the Mildred Dresselhaus Price Ceremony 2017: Prof. Dr. Anna Krylov,...
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Mentoring program: build a career
The call for applications for the third round of dynaMENT Mentoring for Women in Natural Sciences is now open. The program is designed for women* in natural sciences, planning to pursue a career in...
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