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February 2026

Ambitious Climate Policy Ensures Reduction of CO2 Emissions

Research Centre on Antigypsyism

Sources on the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe

Measuring Exhaust Emissions of Heavy Duty Vehicles in Real Traffic Using “Plume Chasing”

NXTGN Startup Factory Succeeds in International Ranking

Machine Learning Helps Solve Central Problem of Quantum Chemistry

Psychology Study: You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

Dissertation with Great Relevance for Environmental Research

Meeting of Newly Appointed Professors: “We’re Proud We Were Able to Attract You to Our University”

Research funding

ERC Funding for Hellmut Augustin and Michael Platten

Wolfgang Wick Re-elected Chairman of German Science and Humanities Council

Ranking

THE Subject Ranking: Universität Heidelberg with Top Placings

Among the best three universities in Germany with four subject groups – Internationally, Ruperto Carola ranks five times in the Top 50

“Chinese Was the Challenge I Needed”

“We Mustn’t Turn our University into a Fortress”

January 2026

Using AI to Retrace the Evolution of Genetic Control Elements in the Brain

When Artificial Intelligence Creates Stronger Emotional Closeness than a Human

“Research Workshop”: Support for Heidelberg Early-Career Researcher

Heidelberg Physicists Bridge Worlds of Quantum Matter

Thomas Pfeiffer is New President of German Arbitration Institute

Hospital merger

Merger of the Heidelberg and Mannheim University Hospitals Launched

December 2025

Season's Greetings

125 Years of Women Studying at Universität Heidelberg

Heidelberg’s Forgotten Victims

DAAD Prize for Heidelberg Student of Geoarchaeology

Large-scale Cyberattack Successfully Repelled

Master’s Student at Universität Heidelberg Awarded Rhodes Scholarship

Over 32,000 Students at Universität Heidelberg for the First Time

Leibniz Prize for Heidelberg Physicist Klaus Blaum

Marsilius-Kolleg

Science and Communication: New Class of Young Marsilius Fellows

Poster calendar

View of Bergheim Campus Library

Wish-list action

University Staff Provide Gifts for Heidelberg Children

European Research Council

Chemist at Universität Heidelberg Receives ERC Consolidator Grant

Lautenschläger Research Prize

“Fantastic Enabling and Encouraging Prizes”

Attack on Heidelberg University’s IT Infrastructure

Heidelberg Ancient Near East Scholar is “University Professor of the Year”

New Class of Fellows at Marsilius Kolleg

Short Talks and Discussion: Evolutionary Cell Biology meets Neuroscience

German Physical Society Honors Matthias Bartelmann

November 2025

Ranking

Universität Heidelberg: Outstanding Placings in Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subjects

Clinical medicine and medical technology internationally in 18th position – top placements for biological sciences and human biological sciences

Jan Lohmann Receives Lautenschläger Research Prize

With a Humboldt Professorship to Universität Heidelberg

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