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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...

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...

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 Pierre Auger Observatory, with a size of 3000 km², is the world's largest experiment for studying nature's most energetic particles: ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have unlocked novel insights into the mass composition of these particles, paving t...

We are happy to announce that ECAP researcher Jonas Glombitza has been successfully selected for the Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU). Dr. Jonas Glombitza is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk and researches the nature of cos...