Department of Physics

Here we go! – Start of the physics degree programs – Information from the SSC Physics

The Department of Physics and the Study Service Center (SSC) Physics warmly welcome all new and returning students to the winter semester 2025/2026! To help you get off to a good start in the lecture period, there will be information events for first semester students that you should not miss. ...

October 8, 2025 Category: Allgemein, Studium

Obituary: FAU professor and director of the MPL Jochen Guck has passed away

It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck, Chair of Biological Optomechanics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), on October 3 after a serious illness. He he...

October 8, 2025 Category: Allgemein

Peter Hommelhoff receives the Otto Hahn Prize 2025

Peter Hommelhoff, holder of the Chair of Laser Physics at FAU from 2012-2024, has been awarded the Otto Hahn Prize 2025 for his pioneering contributions to the ultrafast control of electrons and the associated establishment of new areas of research. The award ceremony, which includes prize money of ...

September 10, 2025 Category: Forschung

The QUBE research mission funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), in which researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are also involved, will test newly developed quantum communication technologies for the first time using miniat...

September 5, 2025 Category: Forschung

Graduation Ceremony 2024

On May 16, we held a farewell ceremony for our graduates of the past academic year. Dean of Studies Prof. Vojislav Krstic welcomed Dr. Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens AG, as a special guest this year. He himself studied physics at FAU and returned to his alma mater and the lecture hall on this eveni...

July 4, 2025 Category: Allgemein

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