Universität Hamburg (UHH)

Germany

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 170 degree programs

For its more than 43,000 students, Universität Hamburg offers approximately 170 degree programs within its 8 faculties:

A century of history

Opened in 1919, Universität Hamburg was the first democratically founded university in Germany. Nobel Prize winners such as 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.

1 October 2019 - 30 September 2020

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 2019 - 30 September 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output 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
430	83.24

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Life Sciences	161	30.88
American Journal of Human Genetics	3	0.08
Cancer Cell	1	0.03
Cell	6	0.22
Cell Host & Microbe	1	0.01
Cell Metabolism	1	0.07
Current Biology	3	1.95
Ecology Letters	1	0.14
Immunity	1	0.02
Journal of Biological Chemistry	2	1.64
Journal of Cell Biology	2	0.71
Journal of Clinical Investigation	7	1.51
Journal of Experimental Medicine	2	0.14
Journal of Neuroscience	7	4.71
Molecular Cell	3	0.22
Molecular Psychiatry	3	0.16
Nature	9	0.16
Nature Biotechnology	1	0.01
Nature Cell Biology	1	0.06
Nature Chemical Biology	1	0.08
Nature Climate Change	1	0.01
Nature Communications	47	6.17
Nature Genetics	5	0.07
Nature Medicine	3	0.07
Nature Methods	1	0.09
Neuron	1	1
PLOS Biology	2	1.25
PLOS Genetics	3	0.69
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	15	2.66
Proceedings of the Royal Society B	1	0.80
Science	4	0.14
Science Advances	9	1.79
Science Translational Medicine	2	0.19
The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology	1	0.50
eLife	11	3.52
Earth & Environmental Sciences	35	6.45
Chemistry	62	17.40
Physical Sciences	219	36.94

Highlight of the month

A blueprint for tabletop particle accelerators

Scientists have built a miniature particle accelerator that can recycle some of the laser energy fed into the system to boost the accelerated electrons’ energy a second time.

Terahertz-based accelerators, which use radiation that lies between the infrared and radio frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum, have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation compact electron sources. However, their performance has been limited by the relatively short section of interaction between the terahertz pulse and the electrons.

Now, researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany have developed a device that uses a longer pulse comprising many cycles of terahertz waves, extending the interaction section with the particles to the centimetre range.

Just 1.5 centimetres long and 0.8 millimetres in diameter, the device could provide a new electron beam source for medical imaging applications, including ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy and ultrafast X-rays.

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