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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: 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

Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier

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).

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FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Staudtstr. 7 / B2
91058 Erlangen
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