Cluster of ExcellenceQuantum Universe

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...

Hailing from Mulhouse, France, Martin Fournier completed his master's in nuclear engineering from Grenoble University in 2022 and a master's in astrophysics from Paris Observatory in 2023. He studied the propagation of cosmic rays in the milky way using MHD simulations in Lyon. He is now pursuing his PhD at the Hamburg...

In the summer of 2022, Kristoffer Rasmussen graduated from the University of Copenhagen, which is also his hometown, with a master's degree in mathematics specializing in algebraic topology and category theory. For his master's thesis, he worked on "One-dimensional factorization homology and string-nets". He joined the...

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...

Compact binary systems containing a white dwarf or neutron star emit low frequency gravitational waves. Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe researcher Thomas Kupfer, in an international collaboration, recently identified new binaries in our Galaxy, which could prove crucial to validate the LISA (Laser Interferometer...

The Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld is changing faster than any other research center in Hamburg. On occasion, we ask University of Hamburg members to introduce their workplace in existing or planned Science City research buildings and tell us what makes their building special. Today: the Center for Free-Electron Laser...

Together with cooperation partners, researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Quantum Universe at University of Hamburg are developing and testing components for the future Einstein Telescope. The large-scale research facility is a third-generation gravitational wave detector and is to be built in Europe in the coming...