At CERN, millions of particle collisions occur every second—far too many to store them all. A clever filtering system therefore decides in real time which data are worth keeping. Researchers from the University of Hamburg in the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe have now integrated artificial intelligence directly into...

Dr. Dimitra Spathara, a materials scientist specializing in computational thermodynamics and advanced alloy design, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will carry out her project, called PureCuAlloys, within the research group of Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Nikolopoulos within the Cluster of...

Krisztian Peters has now secured the exceptionally high sum of 3.4 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop a new detector within the project SONAR ("Superconducting Oscillator for Novel Astrophysical Radiation"), whose core components are two such cavities.

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...

With the success of five clusters of excellence, Hamburg has set a new course for academic excellence. Over the next seven years, the University of Hamburg (UHH) and the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), together with their partners, will receive approximately €266 million in funding to further advance their...