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From April 2023, Prof. Dr. Claudio Kopper joins the ECAP. He takes over the Chair for Experimental Astroparticle Physics and will strengthen the research at ECAP with his work on the detection and analyses of high-energy neutrinos. The research of the group will span astroparticle physics in genera...

At the current Collaboration meeting, the KM3NeT Collaboration awarded the first-ever Giorgos-Androulakis-Prize to ECAP early-career scientist Tamás Gál. The KM3NeT Collaboration meets online this week to discuss the progress and future plans of construction, operation and analysing the data of its ...

ECAP had the opportunity to welcome the science and technology counsellor from the Indian Embassy in Berlin, Dr. Madhusudan Reddy Nandineni, during his visit to FAU. International collaboration is a key aspect of many of ECAP's activities and we had a valuable discussion to strengthen scientific coo...

The Meter-wavelength radio astronomy community in Germany is organized in the German Long Wavelength Consortium (GLOW). One particular priority of GLOW is the operation of the German LOFAR stations. LOFAR is the world's largest low-frequency radio telescope and will remain so for the foreseeable fut...

Time to celebrate! The new ECAP Laboratory building was officially inaugurated last week. The ECAP can now be found in our brand new research building at Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Str. 2. For more information about the official inauguration with ministers Blume and Herrmann please see the FAU press release...

With the beginning of October, Dr. Alba Domi from the University of Amsterdam and NIKHEF joins ECAP. She won a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship granted by the EU with her proposal: QGRANT – Quantum GRavity seArches with Neutrino Telescopes. This two-year project aims at using ANTARES, ...

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are the most energetic known messengers of the universe and can be used for testing the frontiers of physics. In particular, they are a powerful tool for searching for imprints of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). ECAP scientist Dr. Rodrigo Guedes Lang has recently pu...

The Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg, which forms ECAP's astronomy research group, hosts a large collection of historical photographic plates. The lengthy digitization process of those is now finished, which finally allows astronomers to harness their contained research potential at large.

At the 2022 IceCube Collaboration Meeting in Brussels, Dr. Steffen Hallmann, who graduated in 2020 with his thesis  Sensitivity to atmospheric tau-neutrino appearance and all-flavour search for neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles with the deep-sea telescopes KM3NeT/ORCA and ANTARES was awarded the GNN ...

Novae are powerful eruptions on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary star system, in which a larger star and a smaller star orbit each other. A nova creates a shock wave that tears through the surrounding medium, pulling particles with it and accelerating them to extreme energies. Dr. Alison Mit...