Press Releases

Lectures for the winter semester 2023/24 start at the University of Würzburg on 16 October. At the annual press conference at the start of the semester, President Paul Pauli provided information on current topics from the university.

The University of Würzburg maintains collaborations with universities in Israel and in the Palestinian territories. The University Board is therefore following the current developments with great concern.

Once again, Würzburg sports professor and fan researcher Harald Lange, together with the voting app Fan-Q, asked football fans for their opinion. The topic this time: women's football in general and women in professional football.

Alumnus Jan-Markus Momberg studied law at JMU. He now works as Head of Legal Affairs, Policy and Volunteer Coordination at the Würzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

In the renowned Times Higher Education Ranking, the University of Würzburg ranks 111th worldwide in research quality and 54th worldwide in knowledge transfer. In Bavaria, it maintains third place.

Anniversary: Vogel Foundation and Universitätsbund Würzburg present the coveted award for the tenth time. This time to an interdisciplinary research project from the fields of pharmacy and economics.

How SARS-CoV-2 initiates its replication process during infection is not yet fully understood. Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg have now published unexpected findings.

How do plants shape our daily lives? Starting in October, a two-semester lecture series at the University of Würzburg will address this question and provide insights into the new field of plant study in the cultural sciences.

How will we build and live in the future? This question will be addressed in a public lecture by Hannes Taubenböck's Chair of Global Urbanisation and Remote Sensing on 23 October at the University of Würzburg.

Combinations of unfavourable weather conditions over several years can cause a decline in insect biomass. This is shown by a study published in "Nature" by a team led by Professor Jörg Müller.

A remarkable archaeological breakthrough has been made with the excavation and restoration of rooms in the pyramid of Sahura. The discovered chambers are probably storage rooms intended to hold the royal burial objects.

The German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM) has awarded this year's main prize to infection biologist Cynthia Sharma. Sharma is a full professor at the University of Würzburg.

On 21 September 2023, University President Paul Pauli and the Bavarian Science Minister Markus Blume signed the new university contract. Valid until the end of 2027, it formulates important guidelines for the development of JMU.

An excavation in Turkey has brought to light an unknown Indo-European language. Professor Daniel Schwemer, an expert for the ancient near east from Würzburg, is involved in investigating the discovery.

A new generation of cloud services is on the rise. It is based on the paradigm of "serverless computing", which is an active research topic at the Institute for Computer Science in Würzburg.