Press Releases

The earthquake in Colombia has also affected three of the University of Würzburg’s partner universities. Fortunately, students of the University of Würzburg have not been affected.

Fundamental questions in quantum physics are the focus of a new international research consortium. Würzburg physicist Fakher Assaad is part of the team studying the virtues of defects.

Understanding and predicting new phenomena in crystals with quantum geometry. This is the goal Dr Johannes Mitscherling is working towards. He is establishing a new Emmy Noether Group at the University of Würzburg.

Silver for the men, bronze for the women: the Würzburg joint team, made up of players from the University of Würzburg and the Technical University, has won two medals in football at the European University Games in Italy.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible in Germany during the evening of 12 August. An expert from the University Eye Clinic has warned against looking directly at the sun without protection.

Researchers at the University of Würzburg and the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information have developed a questionnaire that accurately measures data protection literacy using just four questions.

At the Physics Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat the world’s first continuously operating maser based on the semiconductor silicon carbide has been realized. This new technology has many potential applications.

German Cancer Aid has approved the funding of the Comprehensive Cancer Centres at the University Hospitals of Würzburg, Erlangen, Regensburg and Augsburg. It still carries the title ‘Centre of Excellence in Oncology’.

Anniversary: 25 years of remote sensing at JMU – Nobel Laureates: Exhibition now on display in the city centre – NUCLEATE Cluster of Excellence: On a DNA mission with children – Teacher training: Media literacy in the classroom

The DFG is providing 2.2 million euros for Tom Beneke’s Emmy Noether Junior Research Group at the University of Würzburg. He is investigating how Leishmania parasites, transmitted by sand flies, spread throughout the body.

The replacement of a single protein building block leads to vastly different disorders in heart muscle cells. This discovery opens up new ways for the treatment of hereditary cardiomyopathies.

Professional bioacoustics in your pocket: The new BirdNET Live app is revolutionising the monitoring of animal calls. Its AI works without an internet connection and recognises more species than other apps.

Researchers at the University of Würzburg have succeeded in detecting exceptionally robust electrical transport in a topological insulator. This could lead to new metrological applications.

At the invitation of the Würzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Federal Minister Dorothee Bär visited the university. In the Mission Control Centre, she spoke about the opportunities that research, technology and space travel offer the Mainfranken region.

Europe’s largest collection of historic school wallcharts is housed at the University of Würzburg. More than 2,000 items from the collection are now being prepared for bavarikon, Bavaria’s web portal for digitised cultural heritage.