Research & Centers
Research Profile Institute of Physics
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Study Programs
The IfP offers the Bachelor's degree courses in
Physics and
Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) and the subsequent Master's degree courses in
Physics,
MSE and
Materials Chemistry, as well as the
teacher training course in Physics and Biology.
In cooperation with the
Institute for Materials Resource Management (MRM), a new MSE Master's degree course was established. The scientific fundamentals of materials science, one of the core competencies of the IfP, are now supplemented by engineering aspects and materials science through the MRM. From the winter semester 2022/23, the Master's in Materials Chemistry will be the first degree course in chemistry to be offered at the 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】 of Augsburg.
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History & Organisation
The IfP was founded in 1989 and is housed in two of the institute's own buildings on the university campus. The IfP focuses on basic and application-oriented research on condensed matter and quantum matter using methods from experimental and theoretical physics, materials science and chemistry. Since 2021, the research field has been expanded to include soft, active and living matter.
The expansion of the fields of physics and chemistry of biological systems and solid-state-based quantum sciences and quantum technologies, which began in 2020, is to be further intensified in the coming years. The aim is to fill missing fields of research and address particularly promising cross-cutting topics that combine existing strengths on an interdisciplinary basis.
The IfP, which is also home to the
Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism (EKM), consists of a total of seven experimental physics chairs and three theoretical chairs. There is also a Chair of Chemical Physics and Materials Science and a Chair of Solid State Chemistry. Furthermore, the Innovation Alliance and the High-Tech Agenda (HTA) of the Free State of Bavaria enabled professorships for Technical Bioanalytics and for Computational Biology to be filled in 2022 to work on biophysical and biochemical issues in the quantitative life sciences. The new HTA Professorship for Quantum Information and Quantum Computing will intensify research in the quantum sciences. A professorship for experimental plasma physics through a collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, a DLR cooperation professorship for atmospheric physics as well as the didactics of physics and the didactics of biology complete the research and teaching spectrum.
