Study and research at the Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bonn and consists of the Argelander Institute for Astronomy, the Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics, the Institute for Applied Physics and the Physikalisches Institut.
Discover our study programs, research focuses, outreach programs and find out why it's great to study physics and astronomy in Bonn!
Latest News
University of Bonn physicist Matthias Schott awarded €1 million in DFG funding
Technology is being pushed to its very limits. The upgrades to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN slated for the next few years will increase data transfer rates beyond what the current neutrino detector for the FASER experiment can cope with, requiring it to be replaced by a new kind of more powerful detector. This is a task that physicist Professor Matthias Schott from the University of Bonn will be tackling with the help of €1 million in Reinhart Koselleck funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Call for applications for the Jasbinsek Kunkelmann Stipendium
Applications only possible until May 15!
The "Stiftung für Physik und Astronomie" in Bonn honors academic performance and commitment in the study of physics (teaching degree and major subject) and astrophysics with the Jasbinsek Kunkelmann-Stipendium for the Master's program (one-year scholarship of € 300 per month). The scholarship is granted from 01.10.2025 to 30.09.2026.
Researchers for a day 2025
At the International Masterclasses ‘Hands on Particle Physics’ at the University of Bonn on 11 March (Belle II), 25 March (ATLAS) and 11 April (LHCb) 2025, around 60 students got to know particle physics up close and became researchers themselves for a day.
Lena Funcke of the University of Bonn Receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
Clausius Assistant Professor Dr. Lena Funcke of the University of Bonn is one of ten researchers to receive a Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Endowed with a purse of 200,000 euros, the DFG characterizes the Prize as Germany’s most prestigious award for researchers in early stages of their careers.
AMO Colloquium by Ofer Firstenberg
IAP
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
"Quantum Vortices of Photons" - Für weitere Angaben folgen Sie dem Link in der Kategorie "Weitere Informationen". For further details, follow the link in the ...
Amplitudes Seminar: Algorithms for Analytic Evaluation of Feyn...
Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
"Algorithms for Analytic Evaluation of Feynman integrals using Mellin-Barnes representation" - Für weitere Angaben folgen Sie dem Link in der Kategorie ...
Particle Physics Seminar: HBS - a research neutron source for ...
Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
"HBS - a research neutron source for Germany and Europe" - Für weitere Angaben folgen Sie dem Link in der Kategorie "Weitere Informationen". For further ...
Bethe Colloquium by Alexander Altland
Bethe Center
04:15 PM - 06:15 PM
"Late time quantum chaos in two-dimensional gravity" - Für weitere Angaben folgen Sie dem Link in der Kategorie "Weitere Informationen". For further details, ...
