University of Hamburg (UHH) Germany
Overview
As a University of Excellence, Universität Hamburg is one of the strongest research universities in Germany. As a flagship university in the greater Hamburg region, it nurtures innovative, cooperative contacts with partners inside and outside academia. It also provides and promotes sustainable education, knowledge, and knowledge exchange locally, nationally, and internationally.
Excellent research
Universität Hamburg boasts numerous interdisciplinary research projects in a broad range of fields and an extensive partner network with leading research and higher education institutions on a regional, national, and international scale. As part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments, Universität Hamburg has been granted clusters of excellence for 4 core research areas: CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter (photon and nanosciences), Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS) (climate research), Understanding Written Artefacts (manuscript research), and Quantum Universe (mathematics, particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology). An equally important core research area is Infection Research, in which researchers investigate the structure, dynamics, and mechanisms of infection processes to promote the development of new treatment methods and therapies.
Outstanding variety: over 180 degree programs
For its more than 44,000 students, Universität Hamburg offers approximately 170 degree programs within its 8 faculties:
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
- Faculty of Psychology and Human Movement Science
- Faculty of Business Administration (Hamburg Business School)
A century of history
Opened in 1919, Universität Hamburg was the first democratically founded university in Germany. Nobel Prize winners such as physicist Klaus Hasselmann in 2021, Otto Stern, Wolfgang Pauli, and Isidor Rabi were active at the University. Other well-known scholars also taught here, such as Ernst Cassirer, Erwin Panofsky, Aby Warburg, William Stern, Agathe Lasch, Magdalene Schoch, Emil Artin, Ralf Dahrendorf, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, to name but a few.
Career opportunities
Universität Hamburg encourages excellent researchers and talented students to join the institution’s vibrant academic community. Find all career opportunities on the University’s job portal.
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Research
Date range: 1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for University of Hamburg (UHH) published between 1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the Share for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
| Count | Share |
|---|---|
| 389 | 71.49 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
| Subject | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Sciences | 193 | 32.72 |
| Chemistry | 55 | 12.59 |
| Life Sciences | 161 | 29.98 |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | 28 | 5.02 |
Share output for the past 5 years
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73.98 | 81.75 | 84.82 | 91.88 | 79.71 |
Highlight of the month
Adaptive brain circuitry underpins decision making
© SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images
Decision making in response to ever-changing and unpredictable visual cues requires the brain to take an adaptive approach to information processing.
A neuroimaging study conducted on people performing a perceptual choice tasks has highlighted the adaptive nature of evidence accumulation in the brain.
A team led by University of Hamburg researchers has identified signatures of this adaptive processing in the decision-related dynamics of the parietal and frontal regions of the brain — which are known to be involved in action planning — with feedback signalling to the visual centres of the sensory cortex.
These circuit mechanisms help explain an essential cognitive function that is often disrupted in mental health disorders marked by pervasive bad decision making. A better understanding of how the brain integrates sensory information in an adaptive fashion could thus help to reduce the burden of psychiatric disease.
References
- Nature Neuroscience 24, 987–997 (2021). doi: 10.1038/s41593-021-00839-z
See more research highlights from University of Hamburg (UHH)
Collaboration
Date range: 1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 31.24% Domestic
- 68.76% International
Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators with University of Hamburg (UHH) by Share (211 total)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
(47.74)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Max Planck Society
(23.91)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL)
(12.16)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Leibniz Association
(11.41)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
(7.34)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU)
(7.03)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin)
(5.92)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen)
(5.22)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Technical University of Munich (TUM)
(5.21)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin)
(5.17)
Top 10 international collaborators with University of Hamburg (UHH) by Share (1985 total)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
(9.63)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Harvard University
(5.45)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
(5.31)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN)
(5.33)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
(4.90)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
(4.31)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
(3.86)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
(3.69)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Radboud University Nijmegen (RU)
(3.55)
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University of Hamburg (UHH) and Uppsala University (UU)
(3.48)
Relationships
University of Hamburg (UHH)
- Cluster of Excellence - Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), UHH
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), UHH
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- Borexino Collaboration
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL)
- Center for Mathematical Physics Hamburg
- Centre for Marine and Climate Research (ZMK)
- Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB)
- DZIF Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems
- Double Chooz Collaboration
- European Twisted Mass Collaboration (ETM Collaboration)
- GUGC Consortium
- German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ)
- H1 Collaboration
- Hamburg Center for Experimental Therapy Research (HEXT)
- Human Brain Project (HBP)
- Institut für Experimentalphysik (IEXP)
- International Max Planck Research School for Ultrafast Imaging and Structural Dynamics (IMPRS-UFAST)
- International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM)
- Joint Laboratory for Structural Biology of Infection and Inflammation
- KlimaCampus Hamburg
- Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS´21
- Max Planck School of Photonics (MPSP)
- The CMS Collaboration
- The H.E.S.S. Collaboration
- The LAGUNA-LBNO Collaboration
- The OPERA Collaboration
- The Pierre Auger Collaboration
- The ZEUS Collaboration
- WASA-at-COSY Collaboration
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