Institut für
Quantenphysik

When bulk materials are reduced in size to the nanometer scale, in particular, their surface-to-volume ratio increases drastically. Researchers from the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg developed simple experiments for bachelor and high school students to visualize this concept in a laboratory class. In...

Every year, University of Hamburg welcomes many new researchers. Here, we present part of a series to introduce them and their areas of research. This time: cosmologist Luisa Lucie-Smith.

Katharina Behr receives the Hertha Sponer Prize 2025 of the German Physical Society (DPG) for her outstanding experimental contributions to the search for an extended Higgs sector through decays of heavy Higgs bosons into top quarks. The physicist heads the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ‘Fingerprints of the Vacuum’ at...

MPSD Director Angel Rubio along with an elite team of world-renowned scientists— Tal Schwartz (Tel Aviv University), Thomas Ebbesen (University of Strasbourg), and Abraham Nitzan (University of Pennsylvania) - has been awarded a highly competitive ERC Synergy Grant valued at €10 million. This funding will support their...

Daring to try something new, facilitating change - these are topics that come up again and again in the mentoring process. This year, the kick-off of the dynaMENT program at the beginning of October, at which the previous participants were given a ceremonial farewell and new participants were welcomed, also came up with...

Daring to try something new, facilitating change - these are topics that come up again and again in the mentoring process. This year, the kick-off of the dynaMENT program at the beginning of October, at which the previous participants were given a ceremonial farewell and new participants were welcomed, also came up with...