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With a new focus on dynamics and a distinctive quantum vibe, the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat – Complexity, Topology and Dynamics in Quantum Matter – enters the second funding period of the Excellence Strategy.

Gandhi, Putin, Trump: when people become messianic figures, similar mechanisms are always at work. The new Käte Hamburger International Centre at the University of Würzburg aims to uncover them.

The DFG is funding the establishment of a new centre for magnetic particle imaging at the University of Würzburg with 3.1 million euros. The aim is to make the new technology ready for clinical application.

Researchers from Würzburg, Braunschweig, and the US identifiy Cas12a3 nuclease showing precise activity. Their study is published in Nature.

Experts are increasingly turning to machine learning to predict antibiotic resistance. The results should be treated with caution, as a new study by HIRI shows.

For several years, researchers in Würzburg have been using state-of-the-art single-cell analysis to study individual cells. The new “in situ RNA imaging analyzer” now also enables the visualization of complex disease processes.

Minister President Markus Söder has honoured nine personalities with the Bavarian Maximiliansorden. Among them from Würzburg: Professors Georg Ertl and Jörg Vogel.

The University of Würzburg performs very well in the 'Global Ranking of Academic Subjects'. Pharmaceutical sciences, life sciences, medical technology, and physics are particularly noteworthy.

Great result for the University and the University Hospital: all six proposals from Würzburg were approved in the latest round for the awarding of Collaborative Research Centres.

Something strange goes on inside platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi₂). A new study by the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat demonstrates that while PtBi₂ looks like a typical crystal, electrons moving through it do something spectacular.

The Free State of Bavaria is funding four new elite degree programmes with twelve million euros, two of them at the University of Würzburg. They will start in the 2026 winter semester.

Five professors from the University of Würzburg are among the Highly Cited Researchers 2025. This list includes researchers whose work is cited particularly often by other scientists.

In keeping with the international quantum year "Quantum 2025", around 600 children experienced the fascinating phenomena of quantum physics live at the children's university on 18 October.

Topological insulators usually only work at very low temperatures. Researchers at the University of Würzburg have now developed an insulator that exhibits the desired properties even at higher temperatures.

Bavaria and the Max Planck Society have agreed to establish a Max Planck Institute in Würzburg. Representatives of the University and the University Hospital welcome this decision.