Working groups, chairs & organisational units
Find out more about our current working groups, their research focuses and teaching tasks as well as other professorships and organisational units that belong to the Department of Physics at the University of Bayreuth.
Experimental Physics
Physics of soft and living matter (Experimental Physics V)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Bäumchen
www.baeumchen.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Experimental Physics XI & Didaktics of Physics
Prof. Dr. Axel Enders
Dynamics of soft matter (Experimental Physics X)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fischer
thomas-fischer.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Ultrafast dynamics (Experimental Physics VIII)
Prof. Dr. Georg Herink
www.ultrafast.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Dynamics and structure formation (Experimental Physics VII)
Prof. Dr. Eva M. Herzig
Confocal microscopy and confocal microspectroscopy (BIMF)
Apl.-Prof. Dr. Lothar Kador
www.agkador.phy.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Optoelectronics of soft matter (Experimental Physics II)
Prof. Dr. Anna Köhler
Spectroscopy of soft matter (Experimental Physics IX)
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Köhler
Biological physics (Experimental Physics VI)
Prof. Dr. Holger Kress
www.biophys.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Nanooptics (Experimental Physics III)
Prof. Dr. Markus Lippitz
Physics of living matter (Experimental Physics I)
Prof. Dr. Matthias Weiss
Theoretical Physics
Quantum theory of condensed matter (Theoretical Physics III)
Prof. Dr. Vollrath Martin Axt
www.axt.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Biofluid simulation and modeling (Theoretical Physics VI)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Gekle
www.gekle.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Electronic structure and dynamics (Theoretical Physics IV)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Kümmel
Computational Materials Design (Theoretical Physics VII)
Prof. Dr. Harald Oberhofer
www.oberhofer.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Theoretical plasma physics (Theoretical Physics V)
Prof. Dr. Arthur Peeters
www.peeters.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Theoretical Physics II
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schmidt
Theoretical Physics I
Prof. Dr. Michael Wilczek
www.wilczek.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Soft Matter Theory & Nonlinear Dynamics (WE Heraeus Senior Professorship)
Prof. Dr. Walter Zimmermann (Emeritus of Honour)
www.zimmermann.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en
Didaktics of Physics
Didaktics of Physics
Head: Prof. Dr. Axel Enders
www.didaktik.physik.uni-bayreuth.de
Crystallography
Material Physics and Technology in Extreme Conditions
Prof. Dr. Natalia Dubrovinskaia
www.dubrovinskaia.uni-bayreuth.de
- Retired members of the InstituteHide
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- Prof. Dr. Helmut R. Brand (Theoretical Physics III, 1992-2018)
- Prof. Dr. Hans Braun (Experimental Phyics V, 1986-2015)
- Prof. Dr. Helmut Büttner (Theoretical Physics I, 1975-2007)
- Prof. Dr. Friedrich H. Busse (Theoretical Physics IV, 1980-2003)
- Prof. Dr. D. Haarer (Experimental Physics IV, 1980-2003)
- Prof. Dr. Werner Köhler (Experimental Physics IV - Dynamics and transport in soft matter, 1998-2024)
- Prof. Dr. Franz G. Mertens (Theoretical Physics I, 1978-2008)
- Prof. Dr. Werner Pesch (Theoretical Physics II, 1978-2004)
- Prof. Dr. Ingo Rehberg (Experimental Physics V, 1999-2020)
- Prof. Dr. Ernst Rössler (Experimental Physics II, 1993-2018)
- Prof. Dr. Hans Schamel (Theoretical Physics IV, 1986-2004)
- Prof. Dr. Alois Seilmeier (Experimental Physics III, 1990-2015)
- Prof. Dr. Markus Schwoerer (Experimental Physics II, 1975-2005) (Emeritus of Honor)
- Dr. Sigrid Weber (Didactics of Physics until 2022)
- Prof. Dr. Sander van Smaalen (Laboratory of Crystallography, 1995-2024)
- In MemoriamHide
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- Prof. Lorenz Kramer, Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics II, 19787-2005, ✝ April 5, 2005)
- Dipl.-Phys. Georg Freund (PhD Student, Theoretical Physics I, ✝ January 5, 2015)
- Prof. Dr. Dierk Rainer (Theoretical Physics III, 1983-2004, ✝ December 5, 2016)
- Prof. Dr. Jürgen Küppers (Experimental Physics III, 1989-2008, ✝ November 11, 2019)
- Prof. Dr. Georg Eska (Experimental Physics V, 1986-2006, ✝ December 12, 2019)
- Dr. Susan Enders (Experimental Physics V, ✝ January 15, 2020)
- Prof. Dr. em. Jürgen Kalus (Experimental Physics I, 1975-2000, ✝ March 23, 2020)
- Prof. Dr. Michael Kaufmann (Honorary professorships, Experimental Physics III, ✝ June 25, 2020)
- Prof. Dr. Harald Pascher (Experimental Physics I, 1995-2011, ✝ March 23, 2023)
- Prof. Lorenz Kramer, Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics II, 19787-2005, ✝ April 5, 2005)