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With a groundbreaking ceremony, Senator for Science Maryam Blumenthal, Senator for Finance Dr. Andreas Dressel, the President of the University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, Martin Sowinski, Managing Director of Sprinkenhof GmbH, and Prof. Dr. Erika Garutti from the Institute of Experimental Physics of the UHH and...

The German Research Foundation is funding a new Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group at the University of Hamburg. Led by Dr. Max Wiesner, the project is investigating how fundamental phenomena of the universe—such as dark energy—can be better described on the basis of new insights into theories of quantum...

The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space is providing 3 million euros in funding for a research project on AI-supported analysis of large amounts of data in astrophysics and particle physics. SciFM is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Luisa Lucie-Smith, principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence “Quantum...

The research group “Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies” (FOR 5195), which also includes researchers from the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg, has been investigating the powerful plasma beams emitted by supermassive black holes since 2021. Now the DFG has extended its funding.

Having grown up in Villingen-Schwenningen, a city in the Black Forest region, Lorenz has been living in Stuttgart for the last 9 years studying mathematics. During his time at the University of Stuttgart, he worked on Gauge Choices in the Setting of Gravitational Waves. Having graduated from there in early 2024, he has...

The ENGRAVE collaboration has been awarded the new ‘Into Change Award’, which comes with a prize money of 1 million euros. The collaboration has made it possible to trace the origins of the Universe’s heaviest elements, which are forged in the aftermath of neutron star mergers.

In a new publication in Physical Review Letters, Géraldine Servant and collaborators present a novel mechanism for scalar particle production in the early Universe that can be applied generally to scalar dark matter and specifically to rotating axion models. Rather than coming from the energy initially stored in the...

DESY scientists and Quantum Universe Key Researchers Jenny List and Andreas Maier, together with Henri Vincenti from the French research organization CEA and Antonino Di Piazza from the University of Rochester in the USA, have been awarded one of the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grants. This...

DESY has a new research director for particle physics: Ulrich Husemann, formerly professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), assumes the position on 1 November. DESY is familiar territory for the particle physicist: Husemann worked on DESY experiments during his diplom and doctoral theses, was a junior...