Cluster of ExcellenceQuantum Universe

The Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld is changing faster than any other research center in Hamburg. On occasion, we ask University of Hamburg members to introduce their workplace in existing or planned Science City research buildings and tell us what makes their building special. Today: the Center for Hybrid Nanostructures...

It’s not just sunshine that comes from our nearest star — according to new research by IFIC, DESY and the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at the University of Hamburg, the Sun also emits ultra-weak gravitational waves over an enormous frequency range. These gentle ripples in space and time could one day shed new...

A search for axion dark matter, this ambitious endeavor was successfully taken by the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment" (SPACE) research group of Mehmet Agit, Akgümüs And Nabil Salama at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the University of Hamburg. After more than one year of research and development...

In the Shielded Experimental Hall (SHELL) at the University of Hamburg, an international research collaboration involving the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe is developing the MADMAX experiment to detect axions. The particles are considered promising candidates for dark matter and could solve a mystery surrounding...

What forces determine the behavior of elementary particles? And how have they significantly shaped the development of the universe? On the campus of Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld (SCHB), the upcoming Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory (HAFUN) is a research facility unique in Germany that will address these major...

Researchers at the University of Hamburg and DESY have found evidence of the elusive toponium. With this discovery, the fundamental structure of matter could be deciphered in even greater detail.

Yesterday, the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing presented Professors Mathias Schacht and Paul Wedrich with the prestigious Frontiers of Science Award. The scientists from the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg were...

A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship will start in February 2026 in the group of Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, experimental physicist at Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence. Funding of around 200,000 euros will be provided for the two-year research project neutrinoSPHERE.

In the summer of 2023, several pulsar timing array collaborations found the first evidence for the existence of a gravitational wave background, a constant hum of gravitational waves permeating our universe. This evidence opens a new window to investigate the sources of those gravitational waves. In a recent paper...