The Hamburg CentreFor Ultrafast Imaging

A team of scientists from DESY and the Universität Hamburg has achieved an important milestone in the quest for a new type of compact particle accelerator. Using ultra-powerful pulses of laser light, they were able to produce particularly high-energy flashes of radiation in the terahertz range having a sharply defined...

Light can be used not only to measure materials' properties, but also to change them. Especially interesting are those cases in which the function of a material can be modified, such as the ability to conduct electricity or to store information in its magnetic state. A team led by Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck...

Do we have to know what happened in the split second after the big bang? Or why people started to scratch clay tablets? Together with the spokespersons of the clusters of excellence, ZEIT journalist Oliver Hollenstein discussed their research - what, how and why they do what they do - and received surprising answers.

Understanding excellent research: on 3 June senator Katharina Fegebank and UHH president Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Lenzen will present the four clusters of excellence at Universität Hamburg to the public for the first time. Moderated by Oliver Hollenstein (DIE ZEIT) the clusters' spokespersons will then discuss climate...

In recent years, the "Nacht des Wissens" (Night of Science) and the "Tag des Wissens" (Day of Knowledge) have inspired numerous people alternately. Now the two science festivals are coming together - for the "Tag des Wissens" infront of Hamburg’s city hall - and we are part of it.

Prof. Dr. Ruth Signorell, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Prof. Dr. Alicia Palacios, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, will be awarded the 2019 Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorships at the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI). The Guest Professorship includes longer research stays at the cluster of excellence...