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13 October 2025|Forschung

“Whales make you happy”: Prof. Dr. Helena Herr strengthens the marine sciences

Every year, the University of Hamburg welcomes numerous new researchers. This series introduces them and their areas of research. This time: marine biologist Prof. Dr. Helena Herr.

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13 October 2025|Studium und Lehre

Hello Ersties!

We are delighted to welcome you to the Department of Biology at the University of Hamburg in the winter semester 2025-2026! You have taken the first step in an exciting academic journey! To help you get off to a good start, the University of Hamburg has compiled some important information for first-year students.

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From left to right: Prof. Dr. Kai Jensen, Prof. Dr. Annette Eschenbach, Prof. Dr. Arno Frühwald, Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, Senator Maryam Blumental, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Ritter, Prof. Dr. Heinrich Graener, Dr. Katrin Seelhorst

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10 October 2025|Veranstaltung

The University’s Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences Turns 20!

The Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg will celebrate its twentieth anniversary with a festive ceremony followed by an academic symposium. The festivities are an excellent opportunity to review the last 2 decades of development, research, and teaching and to look ahead.

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25 September 2025|Forschung

Long-Term Study in the Elbe Estuary: Fish Population Down by 90 Percent

In the last 4 decades, fish fauna in the Elbe estuary has changed dramatically according a project jointly conducted by the University of Hamburg and the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB). Among other things, the project’s researchers examine how environmental factors have an impact on the...

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21 July 2025|Biology

Research in the Loki Schmidt Garden

In the Loki Schmidt Garden, Prof Dr Jochen Fründ and his team are investigating how biocoenoses and their interactions - particularly between insects, spiders and plants - develop in the flowering meadow that was established two years ago.

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25 June 2025|Forschung

Malagasy gecko species named after our former Prof Dr Jörg Ganzhorn

As part of taxonomic research in Madagascar, a new gecko species of the genus Blaesodactylus, the so-called ‘velvet geckos’, was recently described. These relatively large, nocturnal and highly attractive animals were distinguished from the already known species Blaesodactylus sakalava on the basis of genetic and...

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