heidelberg university

The 17th class of fellows at the Marsilius Kolleg includes Prof. Dr Dörthe Herbrechter (education studies), Prof. Dr Nathalie Holz (neuropsychiatry), Prof. Dr Bernd Lenz (neuroscience / addiction medicine), Prof. Dr Thomas Maissen…

Among the additive manufacturing techniques, two-photon 3D laser printing offers particular advantages for manufacturing at the micro- and nanoscale. Owing to its remarkable resolution, it finds application in numerous fields…

Peptides are polymers composed of two or more amino acids that are linked together and can be found wherever there are cells in the organism. They play a central role in the immune system, as they transmit essential immunological…

To capture data on the risks of problematic online habits of adolescents and develop individual prevention programmes, researchers from 22 institutions in Europe have banded together to conduct research. The largest scientific…

Aromatic compounds, or aromatics, are a substance class in organic chemistry, named after the aromatic smell by which the initially discovered compounds of this class were identified. In addition to ring-shaped carbon compounds, aromatic…

At the world’s most powerful particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider – protons and atomic nuclei are brought to collision inside the three detectors ALICE, ATLAS and LHCb – with a further increased centre-of-mass energy.…

Johanna Stachel – an internationally acclaimed expert in the field of nuclear and particle physics – has “helped to shape both the development of her subject and that of the faculty and university with the same enthusiasm and…

A research project based at Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University Hospital targets plastic particles and climate change as driving factors for the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment. The participating…

Ten young scholars from Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the USA are to be honored for their outstanding dissertations or first postdoctoral book publication on the topic of “God and Spirituality”. They have been selected to…

Art forgeries represented a challenge to the art world and its institutions long before the sensational case around Wolfgang Beltracchi. The journal “Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes”, i.e. the Communications from the Museums Association,…