The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging has been funded since November 1, 2012, within the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State governments.
"Since this undertaking will require the expertise of many disciplines, scientists from physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine have joined forces under the umbrella of the cluster of excellence. Thereby teams of Universität Hamburg cooperate with teams of Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), the European XFEL GmbH (XFEL), and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
In addition to the study of fundamental processes in the field of photon and nanoscience, a central aspect of the cluster of excellence is a state-of-the-art education of young scientists with a special focus on gender aspects and family friendly structures. Furthermore, CUI is very active at the interface with society and for example offers an extensive programme within its school lab."
