Department of Physics

What do oat milk, the blue morpho butterfly and the Nuremberg Reichswald forest have in common? They are three topics of outstanding pre-scientific work with which pupils from Franconia have won a Dr. Hans Riegel prize. The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Dr. Hans Rie...

The project "ESFZ Student Research Camps for all kids of Durban" aims to establish the concept of the Erlangen Student Research Center and especially that of the research camps at the Erlangen Student Research Center at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa, and thus to rede...

For many years now, the Faculty of Science at FAU has been participating in Girls' Day, and this year the girls could expect an exciting and motivating program: The offer with contributions on the topics "Exploring the hidden physics in the animal world together", "The hot and energetic universe"...

Dr. Thomas Dauser from Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory and Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) at FAU has received this year’s Innovation Award from the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) together with Javier Garcia (NASA Goddard Space Flight...

In 2024, PLANCKS was organized in its 11th edition by the University of Dublin and the Institute of Physics. 49 teams from 25 countries qualified for the final round in national preliminary rounds. In this highly competitive environment, FAU student Titus Bornträger and his team consisting of Finnle...