Name: 20 Years of MIN Faculty - Symposium
Start: 2025-10-10T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-10T19:00:00+02:00
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20 Years of MIN Faculty - Symposium

Friday 10 October 2025 - 09:00

Monday 6 October 2025
Tuesday 7 October 2025
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Thursday 9 October 2025
Friday 10 October 2025
09:00 Welcome and introduction - DESY Auditorium (Building 5)
Welcome and introduction - DESY Auditorium (Building 5)
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:15 Introduction MIN Life Science: Life - Earth - Climate - Kai Jensen

09:30 Introduction MIN Materials of the Future - Dorota Koziej (University of Hamburg) Linnea Hesse (Universität Hamburg)

09:45 Introduction MIN Quantum Science and Technologies
10:00 Coffee break - CSSB, CFEL, ZOQ
Coffee break - CSSB, CFEL, ZOQ
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Session Block 1 (Click here for detailed programme)
Session Block 1 (Click here for detailed programme)
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 Translational Lens of Gene Expression - Zoya Ignatova

10:42 Hamburg School of Food Science – Food and Material Profiling - Markus Fischer (Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg)

10:52 Permafrost-Affected Ecosystems Alter the Carbon-Climate Feedback - Christian Beer (Universität Hamburg)

11:02 The Journey of Small RNAs: Systemic and Interorganismal Signalling in Plants - Julia Kehr (Universität Hamburg)

11:12 Mass Extinctions and Climate Change - William Foster (UniversitÃ¤t Hamburg)

11:42 Individual Variation in Immunity - A Gateway to Precision Medicine - Tobias Lenz (Universität Hamburg)
Session Block 1 (Click here for detailed programme)
Session Block 1 (Click here for detailed programme)
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 The Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) - Hanry Chapman (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

10:45 Future Materials for Quantum Technology - Ralf Riedinger (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

11:00 Observation of Higgs Modes in Superconductors by Non-Equilibrium Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering - Tomke Glier (Universität Hamburg)

11:15 Whispers in the WAVEs: Decoding Campus Vibrations with Distributed Acoustic Sensing - Celine Hadziioannou (University of Hamburg)

11:30 CHyN Cleanroom - a platform for interdisciplinary micro and nano fabrication - Irene Fernandez-Cuesta (UHH)
Session Block 1 (Click here for detailed programme)
Session Block 1 (Click here for detailed programme)
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 RYMAX & Quantum Computation - Klaus Sengstock (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

10:45 The vast theoretical and experimental program in the connection with particle physics, dark matter and gravitational waves - Geraldine Servant (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

11:00 Quantum material emulation via atom-by-atom assembly - Jens Wiebe (Universität Hamburg)

11:15 Ultrafast manipulation of quantum matter - Francesca Calegari (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

11:30 Superconducting microwave cavities for high frequency gravitational wave searches - Tom Krokotsch (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)
12:00 Lunch Break, DESY Foyer (Building 5)
Lunch Break, DESY Foyer (Building 5)
12:00 - 14:45

12:00 - 14:45
15:00 Session Block 2
Session Block 2
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Demystifying the mechanics of protein function - Helen Ginn (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg / Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY)

15:13 Species-Specific Aspects in Eukaryotic mRNA Translation Modulation and their Implications in Diseases - Yaser Hashem (Universität Hamburg, MIN-Fakultät, Fachbereich Chemie, Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie)

15:26 Ubiquitin’s Double Edge: Proteostasis at the Crossroads of Life and Death during Infection - Marco Trujillo (Department of Biology, University of Hamburg)

15:39 Functional Ecology as a Tool for Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change - Ina Christin Meier (Universität Hamburg)

15:52 Breaking Fat: Targeting Lipid Trafficking for Host-Directed Therapies Against Mycobacteria - Caroline Barisch (CSSB)

16:04 UHH Core Research Area Inflammation, Infection and Immunity: Joint efforts of MIN and partners - Kay Grünewald (Department of Chemistry, University of Hamburg)
Session Block 2
Session Block 2
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 BlueMat: Water-Driven Materials - Patrick Huber (TUHH/ DESY)

15:15 Plants as Architects: Lessons for Multifunctional, Stimuli-Responsive Materials - Linnea Hesse (Universität Hamburg)

15:30 Environmentally Benign Catalysts for Sustainable Chemistry: The Potential of Polyoxometalates - Maximilian J. Poller (Universität Hamburg)

15:45 Mathematical Optimization for Material Science - Winnifried Wollner (Universität Hamburg)

16:00 -Element Coordination Chemistry: Tuning Properties, Reactivity and Recycling - Lisa Vondung (Universität Hamburg)
Session Block 2
Session Block 2
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 A Tale of Quantum Computation and Categorification - Paul Wedrich (Universität Hamburg)

15:20 Linear Logic in Three Dimensions - Max Demirdilek (UniversitÃ¤t Hamburg)

15:40 Quantum Gravity and Geometry - Timo Weigand (UniversitÃ¤t Hamburg)

16:00 A tour of 6d UV-complete Field Theories and their Protected Sectors - Florent Baume (UniversitÃ¤t Hamburg)

16:05 Physics and Geometry of Patterns in Quantum Gravity - Jeroen Monnee (Universität Hamburg)

16:10 Infinite Distance Limits and Emergent Structures in Supersymmetric Conformal Manifolds - Fabio Mantegazza (DESY/University of Hamburg)

16:15 Searching for inflationary regimes in penumbral regions of the moduli space - Stefano Lanza (University of Hamburg)
16:30 Coffe Break
Coffe Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 Synthesis and outlook from the parallel sessions
Synthesis and outlook from the parallel sessions
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:10 Wrap up: MIN Life Science

17:25 Wrap up: MIN Materials of the Future - Nadja-Carola Bigall (Universität Hamburg) Ralf Riedinger (Universität Hamburg) Winnifried Wollner (Universität Hamburg)

17:40 Wrap up: MIN Quantum Science and Technologies
18:00

18:00 - 19:00