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:
- 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 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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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 |
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430 | 83.24 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Highlight of the month
A blueprint for tabletop particle accelerators
© zf L/Getty
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.
- Physical Review X 10, 011067 (2020). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.011067
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Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-06-23
Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes
Nature Genetics
2020-01-07
1 October 2019 - 30 September 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 24.35% Domestic
- 75.65% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (194 total)
- University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany
- Domestic institution
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(49.82)
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Max Planck Society, Germany
(30.82)
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Leibniz Association, Germany
(11.14)
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Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany
(5.60)
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RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany
(4.70)
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University of Kiel (CAU), Germany
(4.48)
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University of Lübeck, Germany
(4.37)
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Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany
(4.18)
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Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany
(4.11)
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Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany
(3.97)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (1986 total)
- University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany
- Foreign institution
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(10.48)
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
(9.50)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)
(6.92)
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University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)
(5.53)
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Stanford University, United States of America (USA)
(5.34)
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
(5.21)
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Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia
(5.04)
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Sorbonne University, France
(4.74)
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Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
(4.12)
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Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)
(3.58)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- Borexino Collaboration, Italy
- Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Germany
- DZIF Partner Site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany
- Double Chooz Collaboration, France
- European Twisted Mass Collaboration (ETM Collaboration), Germany
- GUGC Consortium, Germany
- German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), Germany
- H1 Collaboration, Germany
- Hamburg Center for Experimental Therapy Research (HEXT), Germany
- Human Brain Project (HBP), Switzerland
- International Max Planck Research School for Ultrafast Imaging and Structural Dynamics (IMPRS-UFAST), Germany
- International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), Germany
- Joint Laboratory for Structural Biology of Infection and Inflammation, Germany
- Max Planck School of Photonics (MPSP), Germany
- The CMS Collaboration, Switzerland
- The H.E.S.S. Collaboration, Germany
- The LAGUNA-LBNO Collaboration, Switzerland
- The OPERA Collaboration, Italy
- The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Argentina
- The ZEUS Collaboration, Germany
- WASA-at-COSY Collaboration, Sweden

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