Interviews

Meyer-Burckhardt studierte Geschichte und Philosophie in Hamburg und wechselte dann an die Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in München. Danach produzierte er Filme für die Werbeindustrie und arbeitete als Creative Director in einer großen Werbeagentur. Seit 2006 lebt...

Prof. Dr. Cord Jakobeit from the Institute of Political Science has received a Marie Curie Initial Training Network grant from the European Union's Seventh Research Framework Program for his project Power and Region in Multipolar Order (PRIMO). A total of fourteen economic and academic...

Against the backdrop of the Shanghai-Hamburg partnership, the partner universities Fudan University (Shanghai) and Universität Hamburg in cooperation with the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce and the Ostasiatischen Verein e.V. (OAV) cordially invite the public to the second Shanghai Hamburg Forum...

How does Arctic warming affect Siberian permafrost? How much CO2 and methane are released as the earth thaws? The Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) i supporting the new Russian-German collaborative project CarboPerm–Carbon in Permafrost: Formation, Conversion and Release. The BMBF...

In the upcoming winter semester, Universität Hamburg is once again offering a broad spectrum of lectures open to the public. The General Lecture Series includes thirty-three lecture series with roughly 300 individual lectures. Read more in German...

Die Vorlesungsreihe „Nachhaltige Stadt der...

The research lab in the School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences cordially invites children eight and up to get a taste of social and economic research. Read more in German...

„Türöffner-Tag“ der „Sendung mit der Maus“
am Donnerstag, dem 3. Oktober 2013,
im Experimentallabor der Fakultät...

As of September this year, the annual minimum surface area of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean measured roughly 5.1 million square kilometers, which is about thirty percent higher than the previous negative record in 2012 of 3.4 million square kilometers.  Read more in German.... „Dieser Wert bedeutet...

New partners, new topics and a lot of excitement: Universität Hamburg is once again hosting the Children's University. Members of the teaching staff will provide child-friendly answers to six questions about nature and everyday life. Read more in German... Hier lernen die jungen Studierenden...

Für Rückfragen:

Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Kaiser
Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum Hamburg
Tel.: 040 42838-7653
E-Mail: thomas.kaiser"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Für Rückfragen:

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Bausi
Äthiopistik
Asien-Afrika-Institut
Tel.: 040.42838-4870/9074
E-Mail: alessandro.bausi"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Prof...

Das Institut für Romanistik der Universität Hamburg und der Deutsche Lusitanistenverband (DLV) veranstalten unter dem Rahmenthema „Migration und Exil“ den

10. Deutschen Lusitanistentag,
vom 11. bis 14. September 2013
am Institut für Romanistik der Universität Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 6...

How much space do the daily papers devote to climate change? At Universität Hamburg's KlimaCampus, a research team headed by sociologist Andreas Schmidt has evaluated media coverage in twenty-seven countries. The study has shown that coverage has increased substantially since 1996 in all evaluated...

Roughly one third of people sixty-five and older fall at least once a year. About ten percent of these accidents result in injuries. In the worst of these cases, injuries lead to permanent nursing care. Even if patients do not suffer serious injuries, many elderly people reduce their daily...

Prof. Dr. Thomas Straubhaar, Direktor des Hamburgischen Weltwirtschaftsinstituts HWWI, hat den HWWI-Gesellschaftern, das heißt der Handelskammer Hamburg und der Universität Hamburg, mitgeteilt, dass er seine Funktion an der Spitze des HWWI zum September 2014 niederlegen werde, um sich stärker seinen...

Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger, Leiter der Forschungsgruppe „Rastersensormethoden“ am Institut für Angewandte Physik der Universität Hamburg, erhält bereits zum zweiten Mal vom Europäischen Forschungsrat ERC (European Research Council) einen mit über 2 Millionen Euro dotierten Forschungspreis...

Prof. Dr. Ortrud Gutjahr from the Institute for German Studies at Universität Hamburg has been awarded around 200,000 euros worth of funding for her research project on the shared experience of migration in German-Turkish and Turkish film. Her project is one of five selected projects due to receive...

Conduct electricity along a surface and simultaneously block current like an insulator: that is what topological insulators, a type of material discovered in 2005, can do. At Universität Hamburg two research teams in the Institute for Applied Physics are working on this new material. As of August...

Dr. Alexander Ako Khajetoorians from the research team headed by Prof. Roland Wiesendanger of the Institute for Applied Physics at Universität Hamburg has been accepted to the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation. He will receive EUR 1.8 million to create a young researchers...

Im Rahmen einer Studie wird an der Universität Hamburg die Effektivität von elastischem Taping bei Personen mit Kniegelenkarthrose untersucht. Dafür suchen der Fachbereich Bewegungswissenschaft und das Institut für Sport- und Bewegungsmedizin e.V. Probanden mit einer ärztlich diagnostizierten...