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Department of Physics

The department supports research and is responsible for teaching physics. It houses 17 chairs with a total of 37 professors, about 260 employees and 800 students (as of summer 2016) 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

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.
Research group Prof. i. R. Dr. Andreas Magerl

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

Chair for Optics:

Head: N.N.
Research group Prof. Dr. Gerd Leuchs
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. Philip Russell, D.Phil., FRS
Research group Prof. Dr. Nicolas Joly

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 Prof. Dr. Michael Schmiedeberg
Research group Prof. Dr. Kai Phillip Schmidt

Chair for Theoretical Physics II

Head: N.N.
Research group Eric Lutz

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 Michael Thoss

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).