The eventful year 2025 had already reached its first highlight for the University of Hamburg with the confirmation of the four Clusters of Excellence in May. Overall, the year was marked by new initiatives and the continuation of projects that will shape the future. The university’s new annual report—available in both...

Prof. Shuyun Zhou from Tsinghua University, China, and Prof. Suzy Zhang from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University, Japan, have been awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship 2026 by the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). The program includes an extended research stay at...

A new prototype detector called CODEX-beta has now recorded its first data at CERN. It is designed to test a different way of searching for hidden particles: looking for signs of new physics that could travel some distance from an LHC collision before decaying in a quiet, shielded space nearby.

An international team, including researchers from the University of Hamburg Observatory, has discovered 31 of the oldest quasars ever found using the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. Two of these massive galactic nuclei now break the record for the earliest quasars ever observed in cosmic history and offer...

On July 17 and 18, the University of Hamburg Observatory invites you to the fourth annual Sternstunden Festival in Bergedorf. In a summery festival atmosphere, visitors can enjoy more than 30 concerts, as well as scientific lectures, stargazing, and scientific experiments.

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...