Department
Department of Physics
The department supports research and is responsible for teaching physics. It houses 18 chairs with a total of 38 professors, about 260 employees and 800 students (as of summer 2020) are working and studying at the department. The physics department is part of the faculty of sciences at FAU.
The chairs and research groups can be assigned to the following areas:
Astro and astroparticle physics
Chair for Astroparticle Physics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Uli Katz
- Research group Prof. Dr. Christopher van Eldik
Chair for Physics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk
- Research group N.N.
Chair for Astro- and Astroparticle Physics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Gisela Anton
Professorship for Experimental Astroparticle Physics, in particular Radion Detection of Neutrinos:
- Research group Prof. Dr. Anna Nelles
Astronomical Institut / Dr. Karl-Remeis-Observatory:
- Research group Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heber
- Research group Prof. Dr. Manami Sasaki
- Research group Prof. Dr. Jörn Wilms
Condensed Matter
Chair for Applied Physics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Heiko B. Weber
- Research group Prof. Dr. Vojislav Krstic
Chair for Biophysics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Ben Fabry
- Research group Prof. i. R. Dr. Wolfgang Goldmann (Ph.D.)
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Max-Schaldach endowed professorship:
- Research group Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hensel
Chair for Experimental Physics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Janina Maultzsch
- Research group Prof. Dr. Sabine Maier
Chair for Solid State Physics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Thomas Fauster
- Research group Prof. Dr. M. Alexander Schneider
Chair for Crystallography and Structural Physics:
- Research group Prof. Dr. Rainer Hock
- Research group Prof. Dr. Reinhard Neder
- Research group Prof. Dr. Tobias Unruh
Chair for Laserphysics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff
- Research group apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Hundhausen
- Research group apl. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ristein
Optics
Chair for Optics:
- Head: N.N.
- Research group Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova
- Research group apl. Prof. Dr. Norbert Lindlein
Chair for Nanooptics, Plasmonics, and Biophotonics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Vahid Sandoghdar
- Research group Prof. Dr. Stephan Götzinger
Chair for Experimental Physics:
- Head: Prof. i. R. Dr. Philip Russell (D.Phil., FRS)
- Research group Prof. Dr. Nicolas Joly
Chair for Biological Optomechanics:
- Head: Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck
Research group
Theoretical Physics
Chair for Theoretical Physics I
- Head: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke
- Research group Prof. Dr. Ana-Suncana Smith
- Research group PD Dr. Michael Schmiedeberg
- Research group Prof. Dr. Kai Phillip Schmidt
Chair for Theoretical Physics II
- Head: Prof. Dr. Michael J. Hartmann
- Research group Adriana Pálffy-Buß
Chair for Theoretical Physics III
- Head: Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemann
- Research group Prof. Dr. Kristina Giesel
- Research group Prof. Dr. Hanno Sahlmann
Chair for Theoretical Solid State Physics
- Head: Prof. Dr. Martin Eckstein
- Research group Prof. Dr. Philipp Hansmann
Max-Planck Institut for the Science of Light
- Division Prof. Dr. Florian Marquardt
Physics Didactics
- Research group Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Meyn
The department of physics has strong ties with the neighbouring Max-Planck-Institut for the Science of Light (established 2009).