Institute of
Experimental Physics

A video series introduces new senior colleagues from administration and academia at the University of Hamburg. In the current video, Katharina Höfel gives an insight into her work as an anti-discrimination officer and explains why everyone benefits from anti-discrimination.

The Beate Naroska guest professorship programme of the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at the University of Hamburg and DESY has been established in honour of Beate Naroska. This guest professorship is awarded annually to two successful female scientists who distinguish themselves not only by their excellent research...

The PIER PLUS scientific platform brings together 22 Hamburg universities and research institutions that cooperate closely in six specialized profiles, but also in overarching common fields of action. One of these common fields is “PIER Computing and Data Science”. Computer scientist Prof. Dr Chris Biemann and experimental...

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) published a collection of 3628 high-resolution data sets of Type Ia supernovae that were captured by the unique instrument between March 2018 and December 2020. Supernovae of this type are cosmic explosions that are used for the measurements of distances in the universe. The...

Nano researcher Artur Feld has developed an innovative wax-based lubricant that improves performance in cycling and has a more sustainable effect. The scientist is being supported by the Department of Chemistry with an EXIST start-up grant for his NanoLube project.

PIER Seed Projects promote innovative research ideas of early career scientists in the PIER research fields. It provides rapid and non-bureaucratic seed funding for the identification, initiation, development, testing and implementation of completely new research ideas, concepts or methods. The funding programme is aimed in...