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 December 2019 - 30 November 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 December 2019 - 30 November 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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434 | 78.87 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Subject | Count | Share | |
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Life Sciences | 164 | 29.29 | |
Physical Sciences | 224 | 37.72 | |
Earth & Environmental Sciences | 37 | 6.37 | |
Chemistry | 62 | 12.89 |
Highlight of the month
Watching water heat up at ultrahigh time scales
© Kim Steele/Getty
Under extreme conditions and short time scales, water can remain a liquid at temperatures exceeding 170 degrees Celsius.
At very short time scales, matter can act very differently from how it behaves in everyday life. Powerful X-ray lasers are promising for probing the short-time-scale dynamics of matter, but this has been difficult to date because the energy of their pulses can fluctuate.
Now, by realizing an unprecedented beam stability, a team that included researchers at the University of Hamburg in Germany has used the most powerful X-ray laser in the world to explore how water behaves when heated rapidly on time scales of a millionth of a second.
This understanding of how superheated water behaves will be valuable for predicting how water-containing heat-sensitive samples will act under similar conditions.
- PNAS USA 117, 24110–24116 (2020). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003337117
See more research highlights from Universität Hamburg (UHH)
More research highlights from Universität Hamburg (UHH)
Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M ⊙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-09-02
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
1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 23.85% Domestic
- 76.15% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (192 total)
- University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany
- Domestic institution
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(50.87)
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Max Planck Society, Germany
(27.96)
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Leibniz Association, Germany
(9.87)
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Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany
(6.31)
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University of Kiel (CAU), Germany
(5.98)
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RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany
(5.38)
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Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany
(4.61)
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Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany
(4.60)
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Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany
(4.57)
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
(4.50)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (2021 total)
- University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany
- Foreign institution
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(9.72)
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
(9.54)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)
(6.76)
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University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)
(5.31)
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Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia
(5.03)
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European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
(5.02)
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Sorbonne University, France
(4.89)
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University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland
(4.78)
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Stanford University, United States of America (USA)
(4.60)
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Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
(4.33)
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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