Author: Kay Graf

Dr. Alison Mitchell has been awarded the 2024 Helga-Kersten Prize as sole recipient. The Helga-Kersten Prize is the Faculty of Science's Women's prize at the FAU, awarded annually to up to two young female researchers. It is targeted towards particularly high-achieving young women academics from al...

From October 7th to 15th, we had the pleasure of hosting early-career scientists from around the globe for the 19th Astroparticle School. As always, the event took place in Obertrubach-Bärnfels, where participants engaged in lectures covering various aspects of Astroparticle Physics. Philipp Eller ...

On the 16th and 17th of September was held in Paris the kick-off meeting for the Astrophysics Centre for Multimessenger studies in Europe - ACME. This HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01 EU-funded project coordinated by Centre national de la recherche scientifique CNRS aims to realize an ambitious...

The application deadline was on October 31, 2024. The Faculty of Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Full Professor of Experimental Physics (Astro- and astroparticle Physics) (salary group W3) at the Department of Physics, Erlangen...

The Early Career Scientists (ECS) of the North Bavarian - or Franconien - Universities FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and JMU Würzburg meet to discuss the latest developments in their research in astronomy, astrophysics and astroparticle physics. The yearly event takes place at the research locations o...

During the week beginning 29th of July, ECAP hosted a workshop dedicated to exploring multi-wavelength synergies between telescope facilities in southern Africa (Agenda). Researchers working on the gamma-ray observing High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescopes based at ECAP met with rese...

Early career scientists at ECAP have been successful in the FAU emerging talents initiative.

Just before Easter, 15 High School students visited ECAP to participate in this years IceCube Masterclass (https://masterclass.icecube.wisc.edu/, https://indico.ecap.work/event/74/). The day started with lectures in particle and astroparticle physics. After lunch the students visited selected ECAP ...

This year, the regional competition "Jugend forscht" Mittelfranken took place at the Department of Physics at FAU - hosted in the ECAP Laboratory. The young researchers presented their projects on analysing aspartame in soft drinks, the optimal cornering in karting and paper made from natural mater...

After a hiatus of a couple of years, Erlangen physics students had the chance to join a 3 day excursion to CERN. 42 students (accompanied by Prof. Dr. Anna Nelles and PD Dr. Robert Lahmann) learned about the history of CERN, visited the ATLAS control room, the Antimatter Factory, the CERN exhibit and various other places at the world‘s largest center for particle physics research. The trip was kindly sponsored by the Department of Physics and the elite graduate program of physics at FAU.