Author: Kay Graf

After 2 years of working on the joint project DarkPIX/MemPHIS together with the IEAP from the CTU in Prague, we had our third collaboration meeting at ECAP mid April 2026. The week started with some software updates for the Timepix3 detectors to improve the data rate, and some first measurements wi...

ECAP was the local organising institute of this years' Annual Conference of the DPG and DPG Spring Meeting of the Matter and Cosmos Section which took place 15th - 20th of March 2026. We were able to welcome around 2000 physicists around the Schlossgarten in Erlangen. The scientific programme...

The Green Office of the FAU organised the Public Climate School 2025 and also came to the ECAP Laboratory with a PV upcycling workshop. This event was held by the SteckerSolaer working group of the association Energiewende ER(H)langen, in which participants learned how to make used photovoltaic mod...

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...

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...