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 May 2020 - 1 April 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 May 2020 - 1 April 2021 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
457	84.97

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Physical Sciences	242	40.51
Life Sciences	174	33.93
Chemistry	61	14.22
Earth & Environmental Sciences	34	5.43

Highlight of the month

Ultracold plasma fast freezes electrons

The formation of a super-dense, ultracold plasma in the lab gives plasma physicists uncharted territory to explore.

Plasmas are gases in which the atoms have been stripped of some or all of their electrons. They are formed under extreme conditions such as lighting strikes and in the interiors of stars, making them difficult to investigate in the lab.

Now, six researchers at Universität Hamburg have made an extremely dense, ultracold plasma in the lab. They did this by striking a few thousand ultracold atoms of the metal rubidium with an extremely short laser pulse.

The physicists used to system to investigate ultrafast cooling of electrons, observing their temperature plunge from just below 5,000 degrees Celsius to ten degrees above absolute zero in half a microsecond.

The plasma is roughly a million times denser than previous plasmas made from ultracold atoms. As such it opens up unexplored ground in plasma physics and is promising for gaining insights into less accessible plasmas that exist in nature.

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