Martina Ojeda joined the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe this September as a newly appointed Key Researcher and Emmy Noether group leader at DESY. In this interview, she talks about her research, her path through particle physics, and what she is looking for in the young researchers who will join her group.

For almost 40 years, theoretical physicists from around the world have met at DESY for the annual DESY Theory Workshop. Last week, 160 leading scientists and early-career researchers came together to discuss their work and exchange ideas at the Science City Campus Bahrenfeld in Hamburg.

New analysis involving Quantum Universe researchers determines the Higgs boson’s lifetime to about 10% precision — something the Large Hadron Collider cannot measure directly.

Three weeks, 17 speakers from around the world, and over 120 participants gathered in Hamburg for an intensive program at the frontier of mathematics and theoretical physics.

"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.