• von Birte Vierjahn
• 06.05.2025

Communication, work and leisure without contact, but with technology: a study by four WISNA professors sheds light on whether the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic has improved Germans' digital skills.

• von Juliana Fischer
• 16.04.2025

How do cells manage to precisely duplicate their genetic material, especially in conditions of DNA damage? The molecular biologist Prof Dr Dana Branzei has found ground-breaking answers to this question. The Humboldt-Professor is joining UA Ruhr and UDE.

• 15.04.2025

DPP8/9 are enzymes that regulate inflammation and influence cell survival. This plays a role in cancer. Researchers at the ZMB have developed a novel class of inhibitors that effectively block DPP8/9 without disrupting other processes in the body.

• 07.04.2025

Science Minister Ina Brandes and the Mayor of Essen, Thomas Kufen, broke the ground together: in future, researchers from the natural sciences, life sciences and engineering at the UDE will be working together in the 70 million euro high-tech building known as ACTIVE SITES.

• von Birte Vierjahn
• 26.03.2025

Buildings cause high CO₂ emissions - how can this be prevented? And how can this be done in a socially responsible way? The ifso has analysed this in a study and proposed specific measures.

• 07.02.2025

Wars bring suffering and destruction and cost a lot of money. What do the people of a warring country think about rising spending and government redistribution policies? Scientist Dr. Philipp Chapkovski (UDE) has investigated this question in a survey experiment for Russia.

• von Juliana Fischer
• 06.02.2025

Pollutants from industry, households, and agriculture strain rivers. Despite past restoration improving water quality and biodiversity, progress has stalled. A team led by Prof. Dr. Peter Haase found species' dispersal capacity crucial for recolonization.

• von Juliana Fischer
• 24.01.2025

The UDE hosts the world’s largest algae collection. Using infrared spectromicroscopy, UDE scientists aim to decode the chemical composition of algal cells and explore biomolecules like lipids for sustainable biofuel production at Berkeleys Advances Light Source.

• von Juliana Fischer
• 24.01.2025

Europe's water bodies are polluted. Each day, up to 70,000 chemicals are used in industries and agriculture. Researchers at UDE have developed a method to purify water using chemically modified diatom fossils to remove contaminants.

• von Juliana Fischer
• 14.01.2025

Around 12% of drinking water in Germany comes from lakes and reservoirs. Climate change, pollution, and invasive species threaten biodiversity. The IQ Water project is developing an AI system to monitor water quality and biodiversity.

• von Dr. Alexandra Nießen
• 07.01.2025

Stress is typically considered unhealthy. Prof. Dr. Kathrin Thedieck, newly appointed for Metabolism, Senescence & Autophagy at the UDE-Faculty of Medicine, investigates how stress affects metabolism. She investigates signaling networks that control tumor metabolism.

• von Birte Vierjahn
• 17.12.2024

Catalysis without precious metals: researchers led by the UDE show how electrical voltage makes the surfaces of 2D materials catalytically active. The finding, just published in JACS, is groundbreaking (not only) for the production of green hydrogen.

• von Juliana Fischer
• 11.12.2024

Antibacterial nanomaterials are regarded as promising in the fight against bacteria. The team led by Prof. Dr Anzhela Galstyan has utilised fluorescence lifetime microscopy to visualise active sites in membranes for the first time, thereby linking activity with properties.

• von Juliana Fischer
• 25.11.2024

An important success for water research at the UDE: the CRC RESIST has been extended by the DFG for four years. The researchers are investigating how rivers react to climate change, pollution and structural modifications - and how they can recover from these stressors.

• 25.11.2024

The CRC/TRR MARIE has been renewed: Terahertz technology can be used to localise and detect materials at any place and at any time. Now the phase of prototypes and real scenarios outside of laboratory conditions begins.