Information on the academic holidays: Closing times of the HU main building, the cafeterias and libraries as well as the availability of the Compass hotline for students.
International researchers have analysed the distribution of mitochondria, the energy producers of cells, in the brain. The results offer new perspectives on the organisation of neuronal networks and their performance.
The "Affective Aesthetic Cognitivism and Wonder" project, which investigates the central role of wonder in aesthetic experiences and in the cognitive process, is being funded with two million euros.
The exhibition "On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin" is running successfully at the Humboldt Labor. Around 50 free guided tours and 25 bookable formats will be offered until the end of the year.
In the winter semester, the Mosse Lectures will shed light on the erosion of constitutional states and examine coups d'état. Legal scholar Anna-Bettina Kaiser will kick off the lecture series on 4 December on the topic of "Coup d'état, state of…
On 1 December 2025, Florian Slogsnat was awarded the Tiburtius Prize of the Berlin universities for his outstanding doctoral thesis. This recognition prize for excellent dissertations is awarded annually by the LKRP.
Clean Energy Valley in northern Germany is becoming a leading European location for renewable energies. The BMFTR project KoReGio100 is researching in a real-world laboratory how this transformation can be achieved co-creatively and sustainably with…
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a second funding phase. Humboldt-Universität is involved in the Research Training Group with three researchers.
Oleksandra Shumilova and Christina von Braun will be honoured with the Caroline von Humboldt Award and the Caroline von Humboldt-Professur. The award ceremony will take place on 2 December 2025.
On 22 and 23 November 2025, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Hochschulsport, together with the German Chess Federation and the Berlin Chess Association, will once again be hosting the German University Chess Championships.