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18 February 2026|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Future day in science for boys and girls

How much time do scientists actually spend in the laboratory? What do they study there? On Girls' Day and Boys' Day on April 23...

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4 February 2026|Advanced Imaging of Matter

From photon science to fusion: funding for fusion energy laser development

A research team comprising scientists from DESY, the University of Hamburg, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, the University...

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19 January 2026|Campus

Building Begins for the Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory (HAFUN)

Today’s festive groundbreaking with Maryam Blumenthal (science senator), Dr. Andreas Dressel (finance senator), Prof. Dr. Hauke...

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6 January 2026|CHAMPP

Approximately 1.9 million euros for junior research group on quantum gravity

The German Research Foundation is funding a new Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group at the University of Hamburg. Led...

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16 December 2025|CHAMPP

AI models for many data sources and tasks

The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space is providing 3 million euros in funding for a research project on...

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12 December 2025|CHAMPP

Research Group on Cosmic Jets Gets Extended

The research group “Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies” (FOR 5195), which also includes researchers from the Department of...

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Snapshot of the Simulation of two colliding neutron stars.

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8 December 2025|Research

New European Research Prize awarded to the ENGRAVE Collaboration

The ENGRAVE collaboration has been awarded the new ‘Into Change Award’, which comes with a prize money of 1 million euros. The...

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14 November 2025|Advanced Imaging of Matter

Andrea Cavalleri to be awarded the Stern-Gerlach Medal

The German Physical Society (DPG) has honored Prof. Dr. Andrea Cavalleri with the Stern-Gerlach Medal for outstanding achievements...

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6 November 2025|Advanced Imaging of Matter

The ultrafast meets the ultrashort: CUI team awarded prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for IDEAA project

A team of scientists from the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” at the University of Hamburg and from DESY...

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6 November 2025|CHAMPP

Prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for Quantum Universe researchers

DESY scientists and Quantum Universe Key Researchers Jenny List and Andreas Maier, together with Henri Vincenti from the French...

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