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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...

ECAP welcomed the annual meeting of German radio astronomers in the second week of November 2024. Organized both by the VdR and GLOW, 73 participants got together for an exchange about exciting new science and upcoming projects. Radio astronomy as usual unperturbed by rainy and cloudy weather sp...

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.

The Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) hosted the week-long “P-ONE” Collaboration Meeting in the week of May 13-17, 2024. P-ONE, the “Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment”, aims to construct a multi-cubic-kilometre neutrino telescope in the Pacific Ocean in order to add to the world-w...

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 ...