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Department of Physics

The department supports research and is responsible for teaching physics. It houses 22 chairs with a total of 43 professors, about 260 employees and 750 students (as of summer 2024) 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:

Chair for Astroparticle Physics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Uli Katz
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Christopher van Eldik

Chair for Physics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk

Chair for Astro- and Astroparticle Physics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Claudio Kopper

Professorship for Experimental Astroparticle Physics, in particular Radion Detection of Neutrinos:

  • Research group Prof. Dr. Anna Nelles

Astronomical Institut / Dr. Karl-Remeis-Observatory:

Chair for Astronomy

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Jörn Wilms
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heber
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Manami Sasaki

Chair for Applied Physics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Heiko B. Weber
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Vojislav Krstic

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

Chair for Experimental Physics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Christopher Eichler
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova
  • Research group apl. Prof. Dr. Norbert Lindlein

Chair for Optical Quantum Technologies:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Christoph Marquardt

Professorship for Experimental Physics

  • Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier

Chair  for Nanooptics, Plasmonics, and Biophotonics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Vahid Sandoghdar
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Stephan Götzinger

Chair for Experimental Physics:

  • Head:  N.N.
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Nicolas Joly

Chair for Biophysics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Ben Fabry

Max-Schaldach endowed professorship:

  • Research group Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hensel

Chair for Biological Optomechanics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck

Chair for Biophysics:

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Benoit Ladoux

Professorship for Theoretical Physics:

  • Research group Prof. Dr. Ana-Suncana Smith

Chair for Theoretical Physics I

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Michael Schmiedeberg


Chair for Theoretical Physics II

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Michael J. Hartmann
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Daniel Burgarth


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: N.N.
  • Research group Prof. Dr. Philipp Hansmann

Chair for Theoretical Physics V

  • Head: Prof. Dr. Kai Phillip Schmidt

Max-Planck Institut for the Science of Light

  • Division Prof. Dr. Florian Marquardt

  • 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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