Guest speaker: Prof. Tanja Schilling, Institute of Physics, Statistical Physics of Soft Matter and Complex Systems, University of Freiburg Hosted by: Prof. Dr Alexander Hartmann
Research activities
Vorträge
19.10.2026
14:15
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16:00
26.10.2026
14:15
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16:00
02.11.2026
14:15
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16:00
09.11.2026
14:15
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16:00
"Nanophotonic structures: Extreme spatiotemporal imaging and applications for neuromorphic computing"
Physics colloquium
Guest speaker: Prof. Dr Anders Mikkelsen, Department of Physics & NanoLund, Lund University, Sweden. Hosted by: Dr Jan Vogelsang
16.11.2026
14:15
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16:00
23.11.2026
14:15
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16:00
30.11.2026
14:15
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16:00
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Physics colloquium
Guest speaker: Prof. Dr Nahid Talebi, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany Hosted by: Quantum Materials Research Group (C. Schneider)
07.12.2026
14:15
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16:00
14.12.2026
14:15
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16:00
"Understanding deep learning using statistical physics"
Physics colloquium
Guest speaker: Prof. Dr Karoline Wiesner, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam
11.01.2027
14:15
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16:00
Research activities
This page lists the research areas at the Institute of Physics. You can find out more about physics research in School VI, the ICBM, affiliated institutes and working groups of external lecturers " here.
Research topics at the Institute of Physics
Experimental Physics and Applied Physics
- Scanning Probe Spectroscopy
(Prof. Dr. Niklas Nilius) - Turbulence, Wind Energy and Stochastics
(Prof. Dr. Joachim Peinke) - Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics
(Prof. Dr. Matthias Wollenhaupt) - Ultrafast Nano-Optics
(Prof. Dr. Christoph Lienau) - Wind Energy Systems
(Prof. Dr. Martin Kühn) - Microscopy of Nanoscale Energy Transfers
(Apl. Prof. Dr. Achim Kittel) - Fundamentals of Turbulence and Complex Systems
(Prof. Dr. Kerstin Avila Canellas) - Quantum Materials
(Prof. Dr. Christian Schneider) - Energy Technology
(Prof. Dr. Carsten Agert) - Attosecond Microscopy
(Dr. Jan Vogelsang)
Ehemalige Arbeitsgruppen
Former working groups
Former Groups
- Statistical Physics (Prof. Dr. Andreas Engel)
- Ultrafast Nanoscale Dynamics (Prof. Dr. Sascha Schäfer)
- Energy Meteorology (Dr. Detlev Heinemann)
- Feldtheorie (Prof. Dr. Jutta Kunz)
- Turbulenz, Windenergie und Stochastik (Prof. Dr. Joachim Peinke)
- Energy and Semi-Conductor Research (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Parisi)
- Marine Physics (PD Rainer Reuter)
- Semiconductor Physics and Quantum Solar Energy Conversion (Prof. Dr. Gottfried Heinrich Bauer) (until 09/2012)
- Neuro Acoustics (Prof. Dr. Jesko Verhey) (until 01/2011)
- Acoustic (Head until 09/2009: Prof. Dr. Volker Mellert; Head since 2009: Prof. Dr. Steven van de Par)
- Applied Optics (Prof. Dr. Klaus Hinsch) (until 12/2007)
- Signal Processing and Communication (Prof. Dr. Alfred Mertins) (until 11/2006)
- Molecular and Biophysics (Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Maier / apl. Prof. Dr. Wilfried Tuszynski) (until 07/2006)
- Physical Environmental Analysis (until 12/2005)
- Theory of Condensed Matter (Prof. Dr. Alexander Rauh) (until 09/2001)
- Statistical Physics (Prof. Dr. Karl Haubold) (until 9/2000)
- Clusterphysics (Prof. Dr. Dr. Eberhard R. Hilf) (until 3/2000)
- Metal Physics (Prof. Dr. Volker Ruth) (until 9/1998)