News (2025)

4 August 2025|Education

Fresh perspectives on unsolved problems

Zu sehen sind die Gewinnerinnen des Posterwettberbs.

Photo: CEN/ESRAH Laura Penelope Berta

What do the fashion industry and our consumer behavior have to do with the climate crisis? How can we say goodbye to fossil fuels? And how are lawyers...

28 July 2025|ESRAH News

Stories of claiming space and making waves – opening of "Breaking the Surface"

Zwei junge Frauen blicken in der Ausstellung auf ein großes Porträtfoto einer Meeresforscherin

Photo: Miriam Frieß/UHH

More than 130 guests celebrated the opening of Breaking the Surface. The exhibition portrays eleven female scientists, their questions for the ocean –...

5 June 2025|Research

Sorrow and hope in the Harz: How people are responding to the transformation of their forest

Zu sehen ist eine schwarz-rote Dampflock die durch ein zerstörtes Waldstück mit auf dem Boden liegenden Bäumen im Harz fährt.

Photo: Inga Janina Sievert

How do you feel when you see the status quo in the Harz? Shock or sadness at the countless withered spruces? Hope, when you see a single green tree...

Contribution from the news channel CEN News

22 May 2025|Research

A Great Success: The University of Hamburg Awarded Four Clusters of Excellence

Main building of the University of Hamburg

Photo: UHH/Denstorf

The University of Hamburg was extremely successful in the framework of the Excellence Strategy, securing funding for the 4 existing clusters of...

Contribution from the university's newsroom

19 May 2025|Research

Snapshot Seychelles

Zu sehen sind zwei große Granietblöcke am Strand. Der Himmel ist blau mit einer weißen Wolke und im rechten Teil des Bildes ist eine Palme mit grünen Blättern.

Photo: Beate Ratter

In March 2025, Beate Ratter sent us pictures and impressions of her research trip to the Seychelles, which we present here. The professor of...

19 March 2025|Research

Interview with Goran Georgievski, modeler in the MOMENT project

Scientist facing the camera and sitting next to the desk with two screens on it.

Photo: UHH/C.Steffens

Dr. Goran Georgievski is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology within the “Climate-Biosphere Interactions” working group lead by...

Contribution from the news channel MOMENT-News

17 March 2025|Research

Forschungsprojekt: Wie kann Klimaschutz nachhaltig finanziert werden?

Zwei Hände halten einen Haufen Münzen, aus denen eine kleine Pflanze wächst

Photo: pexels/Akil Mazumder

In einem neuen Projekt wird ein Forschungsteam der Universität Hamburg im Dialog mit der Finanzwirtschaft innovative Finanzierungs- und...

Contribution from the university's newsroom

4 March 2025|Research

Mapping the seafloor from the Peloponnese to Crete

The research vessel Maria S. Merian is moored on the quay with its bow facing the viewer. Its name can be clearly read in white lettering on the dark blue bow.

Photo: Felix Gross

On March 5, the research vessel Maria S. Merian will depart from the Spanish port of Málaga for a six-week expedition to the Greek Aegean Sea. Led by...

17 February 2025|Research