Physics, Department
Fachbereich 10: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
Universität Kassel
Fachbereich 10: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
Institut für Physik
Heinrich-Plett-Straße 40
D-34132 Kassel
https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni
Uni Kassel
Department on the internet
Institut für Physik
Heinrich-Plett-Straße 40
D-34132 Kassel
https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni
Uni Kassel
Department on the internet
Degree courses with details
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Basic information
- Total number of students at the department
330
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
60
Support during the study entry phase
- Total score for support in the study entry phase
13/16 points
International orientation
- Share of anglophone research groups
80.0%
Research
Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)
- Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 25.9%
- Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 40.7%
- Solid-state and Materials Physics: 18.5%
- Particle Physics: 0%
- Astrophysics and Astronomy: 7.4%
- Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 7.4%
Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
- Teacher support
- Support in studies
- Courses offered
- Study organisation
- Exam organisation
- Digital teaching elements
- Laboratory internships
- Research orientation
- Introduction to scientific work
- Offers for career orientation
- Support for stays abroad
- Rooms
- Library
- IT-infrastructure
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
no data
Further information provided by the department
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Heriot-Watt University, UK; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spanien; Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Polen; Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; University of Jyväskylä, Finnland; University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA; Czech Technical University, Tschechien; HØGSKOLEN I INNLANDET, Norwegen; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; University of Massachusetts, USA; University of Wisconsin, USA; The University of Queensland, Australien
Special features regarding the equipment
Cleanroom with equipment for nanostructuring and nanoanalysis; Continuous and pulsed laser systems for broad spectral ranges and pulse durations; Ultra-high vacuum systems with photoelectron spectroscopy, low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy, surface physics methods and more; Wide range of other scanning probe techniques; Cluster and thin-layer deposition systems; MBE systems.
Special features regarding research activities
Key research areas in Kassel: nanostructure science, chiral analysis, femtosecond and attosecond laser spectroscopy, surface physics, correlated electron systems, semiconductor physics, quantum dot laser, ultrafast physics, light-matter interaction, magnetism in nanostructures and lab astrophysics.
Other special features
The Kassel Institute for Sustainability was established at the University of Kassel to promote interdisciplinary research and teaching with the aim of transformation to sustainability using the United Nations Sustainability Goals (SDGs) as a basis. In this context, new courses with integrated sustainability studies are also being developed at the University of Kassel.
Further information on research activities
Information on access restrictions
https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/studium/alle-studiengaenge/bachelor-studiengaenge
Website of the Student Council
online-application
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Acronyms
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(P) = Professors' judgements
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Last Update 2024: Data collected by the
CHE Center for Higher Education
