Year: 2025

The Long Night of Science (25th of October 2025) was a very successful outreach event. Scientists at ECAP showed their research topics and physics phenomena to more than 1600 interested visitors. The ECAP Laboratory building was full of visitors from early afternoon to after midnight, that also had...

The Astro Quantum Optics group from ECAP and the Quantum Optics and Quantum Information group of the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics organized the Stellar Intensity Workshop 2025 in a series of successful workshops on the topic in the US, Canada and France. Stellar Intensity Interfer...

From September 4th to 12th, we had the pleasure of hosting early-career scientists from around the globe for the 20th Astroparticle School. By necessity breaking with a long tradition, the event did not take place in Obertrubach-Bärnfels. Instead we enjoyed the amenities of the Waischenfeld Resear...

Franconian ECS Meet in Bamberg The Early Career Scientists (ECS) of the North Bavarian – or Franconian – Universities FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and JMU Würzburg meet yearly to discuss the latest developments in their research in astronomy, astrophysics and astroparticle physics. The event takes pla...

Dr. Alison Mitchell has been awarded the Shakti Duggal Award "for her contributions to advances in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and to the study of Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators". The award, in honor of the late Shakti P. Duggal, was established in 1983 to recognize outstanding work by a...

We mourn with our colleagues from the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory and are deeply saddened by the unexpected passing of Dr. Katja Pottschmidt on Tuesday, June 17 2025. Please read more about Katja's interesting and influential life in the obituary of the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory.

The Ohm prize of the department of Physics is awarded each year for the best theses. This year Dr. Andreas Zmija, a former ECAP PhD student, was awarded with the prize. ECAP congratulates to this honoured achievement. Dr. Andreas Zmija wrote his PhD thesis on intensity interferometry ‘From the L...

The members of ECAP met today in the first general assembly under the new ECAP governance.The governance and the structure were introduced to the colleagues and the representatives for gender and diversity, the science-support staff and the early career scientists were elected— congratulations to K...

ECAP welcomes the second edition of the FAU² Seminar on Quantum Gravity on May 20th to 22nd. This seminar brings together speakers working across a range of quantum gravity approaches—including canonical and covariant Loop Quantum Gravity, Group Field Theory, and Asymptotically Safe Gravity—to ...