Every year, the University of Hamburg presents an award for gender equality on campus. This year, the Academic Senate has selected two high-profile projects for the award.

There is exciting news from the Higgs division of Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence: Starting in September 2026, Dr. Matthias Schröder of the Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, will become the new coordinator of all Higgs boson research conducted by the international CMS collaboration at the European...

Understanding strongly interacting matter far from equilibrium requires both precisely defined initial conditions and a consistent description of how the system evolves. Researchers at the University of Hamburg have now shown that the transition from a dense Rydberg gas to an ultracold plasma can be systematically explored...