Cluster of ExcellenceQuantum Universe

Chat-GPT is great at coming up with birthday card greetings, summarizing complicated texts, or brainstorming ideas for the name of your new dog. But can it do physics? In a recent paper, researchers of the cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe explored the idea behind models like Chat-GPT and applied it to particle...

For the second time, the Research School of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe QURS invited young talents from astro- and particle physics as well as mathematical physics from the University of Hamburg and the research centre DESY to a science and networking event. Highlights of the graduate week were a poster...

Thorsten Buss is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gregor Kasieczka, working on “Augmenting Calorimeter Shower Simulations using Generative Machine Learning.” He comes from Freiburg im Breisgau and completed his master's degree at the University of Heidelberg in 2022, with a thesis titled “Anomaly Detection...

Coming from Afghanistan, Monireh has since made Germany her home and has earned a master's degree from the University of Hamburg in 2024 with a thesis titled “Deciphering Spin Information in Tau Decays: Distinguishing Higgs Boson, Drell–Yan, and Top Quark Contributions.” She is now a PhD student in the group of Prof. Dr...

In a recent study lead by Quantum Universe principal investigator Prof. Stephan Rosswog from the Observatory of the University of Hamburg, scientists applied their newly developed methodology in Numerical Relativity to identify how collisions of neutron stars eject small amounts of matter at velocities close to the speed of...

On April 3, 2025, the nationwide Girls' Day celebrated its 25th anniversary. This special career orientation day provides girls and young women with insights into scientific, technical, and engineering professions. More than 580 schoolgirls from Hamburg and the surrounding area registered to participate in various...

Within the ongoing competition for clusters of excellence and the 2025 excellence evaluations, members of the Executive University Board have apprised all those studying, teaching, researching, and working at the University of current excellence strategy activities.

Professor Beate Heinemann is to become the new head of the research centre DESY. On 1 April 2025, she will take over as the Chairperson of DESY’s Board of Directors, to which she already belongs in her capacity as Director for Particle Physics. Beate Heinemann will be taking over from Helmut Dosch, who has presided over the...

By laying the foundation stone of the DESY Innovation Factory in the Altona Innovation Park today, DESY is setting an important milestone on the way to Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld. Hamburg's Second Mayor and Senator for Science Katharina Fegebank, Melanie Leonhard, Senator for Economics and Innovation, and other guests...