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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 ...

Just before Easter, 35 High School students visited ECAP to participate in this years IceCube Masterclass (https://masterclass.icecube.wisc.edu/, https://indico.ecap.work/event/120/). The day started with lectures in particle and astroparticle physics. After lunch the students visited selected ECAP...

This year's "Jugend forscht" regional competition for Middle Franconia was special in more ways than one: on the one hand, the competition celebrated its 60th anniversary, and on the other, the Department of Physics at the FAU was able to host the event for the second time - and once again it was a...

We are happy to host Professor Tim Linden for a 1-year sabbatical at ECAP. Prof. Linden works primarily on the detection of indirect signals from dark matter annihilation in the universe. He is interested in using neutron stars as probes for new physics, has worked extensively on the astrophysic...

Detection with the Deep-Sea Telescope KM3NeT from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea From the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea, scientists including astroparticle physicists from the ECAP at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, used the KM3NeT neutr...

The KM3NeT Collaboration has exciting news to report! Please join us Wednesday, 12 February at 4:50 p.m. CET to know more. The webinar will be streamed on the KM3NeT YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/2jgyZlBpkl8?si=qSwkKHynETOZ_xbA ECAP Contact: