Press Releases

Professors Ivo Boneca, Mark Brönstrup, and Christophe Zimmer have been awarded one of the most prestigious European research prizes, an ERC Synergy Grant worth eleven million euros.

Small satellites that find and collect space debris: Mohamed Khalil Ben-Larbi is working towards this goal. He is the new Professor of Space Informatics and Satellite Systems at the University of Würzburg.

Plants adapt their water consumption to environmental conditions by counting and calculating environmental stimuli with their guard cells. Plant researchers from Würzburg report this in ‘Current Biology’.

Can virtual agents strengthen the trust of people with a migration background in the police? A research team from the University of Würzburg has investigated this. The results surprised even those responsible.

The University Board has issued a statement on the announced protest meeting of the “Students for Palestine” in Würzburg.

In the current Times Higher Education Ranking, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has climbed twelve places and now ranks 163rd worldwide. JMU performs particularly well in the areas of knowledge transfer and research quality.

Light pollution is more serious than expected: Moths not only lose their orientation directly under street lamps. Their flight behaviour is also disturbed outside the cone of light.

Plants can extract even the smallest traces of the important nutrient potassium from the soil. A team led by Würzburg biophysicist Rainer Hedrich describes how they achieve this in ‘Nature Communications’.

Today, 7 October 2024, marks the anniversary of the shocking day of Hamas' attack on Israel. This date is a profound turning point for Jewish life around the world.

Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. Researchers from Würzburg and Tübingen are investigating the positive and negative consequences this could have.

Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team at the University of Würzburg has now gained new insights into the DNA damage response.

The study of metabolism in living plants poses challenges for science. A research team from the University of Würzburg and IPK Leibniz Institute has now developed a technique that changes this in some areas.

Professor Hermann Einsele is the world's leading expert in the field of immunotherapies for haematological cancers. He has now been elected as a new member of the Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea.

About 250 scientists from 14 countries will explore the latest findings from pioneering global research at the International Conference on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter CT.QMAT24 in Dresden from September 23 to 27.

Together with Egyptian conservators a team of the University of Würzburg has discovered traces of gold leaf, remnants of the colourful paintings and ancient graffiti in the temple of Edfu.