"I think female scientists nowadays have more opportunities and more platforms where they can show their talent and show the world what they can do", says Chayanit Asawatangtrakuldee, this year's Beate Naroska Junior Guest Professor. Recently, Quantum Universe sat down with her to talk about her journey in academia and...

The QU Postdoc Grant, organized by the QU Postdoc Council, supports postdoctoral researchers within the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe in pursuing research ideas that fall outside their existing funding. Recipients can receive up to €20,000 to advance a well-defined project within one year — from procuring...

The CMS experiment at CERN, with key contributions from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at the University of Hamburg, sets the world's most precise limits yet on how force-carrying particles interact — narrowing down where new, undiscovered physics could be hiding.

You’ve been supervising doctoral students for many years. How long have you been doing this, and what has shaped you in the process?

I’ve been actively supervising students since I became a professor here in Hamburg in 2007. That’s almost 20 years now. Roughly speaking, I help about one to two doctoral students graduate...

Since moving to Hamburg, Samuel has started a PhD in the group of Prof. Dr. Christoph Schweigert working on developing a deformation theory of Frobenius monoidal functors.

After a bachelor’s degree in Cuba, a postgraduate diploma in Italy, Adriel moves to Germany to the Hamburger Sternwarte to pursue a PhD in the group of Prof. Dr. Stephan Rosswog. He feels excited to be working at a higher level than before and looks forward to his research on the unknown physics in the mergers of neutron...

On the afternoon of 12 August 2026, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun – and for a few minutes, some parts of Europe will become as dark as twilight. It will be the first total solar eclipse to reach mainland Europe in almost three decades, an event that will prompt millions of people to look up at the sky together...

In July, the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe hosted this year's edition of the Hamburg International Summer School "Particles, Strings and Cosmology." The school, aimed primarily at master's students, brought together 30 participants from various countries, for some of whom this was their first academic visit in...

A precision measuring device developed at the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at the University of Hamburg has arrived at a partner laboratory in Paris for the testing phase. This marks an important milestone in the preparations for LISA, the ESA mission to detect gravitational waves from space.