Physicists at the University of Jena simulate extreme magnetic field in a photonic model for graphene.
The focus of research at the faculty is on optics/quantum electronics, solid state physics/material sciences, gravitational and quantum theory and astronomy/astrophysics.
There is a wide range of collaborations and joint projects between the staff working in these focus areas. Physics/astronomy didactics and the field of computational physics, which has developed strongly in recent years, act as overarching and unifying areas of work.
The faculty is extremely closely networked with non-university research institutions such as the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, the Helmholtz Institute Jena and the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg, which is documented by jointly appointed professors and a large number of joint research projects. There is active cooperation with local industry and various faculties at the university, which ensures proximity to applications and interdisciplinarity. An increasingly important role is being played by supra-regional collaborative and priority projects, e.g. within the framework of collaborative research centres and research groups, the CoOptics cluster of excellence, BMBF cutting-edge research in the new federal states (PhoNA) and international cooperation, e.g. in the form of EU projects.
Within the university, the networking of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy has been institutionalised through the facility|institution|(structural) unit of two interfacultary Centres. The Centre for Medical Optics and Photonics (ZeMOP) connects the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine at FSU, with significant involvement from local industry.
A central task of the Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP) is to bundle and network existing outstanding optics expertise in order to make significant contributions to basic and applied research in collaboration with the Materials and Biological Sciences. The ACP's research activities are organised into three strategic focuses: Ultraoptics, strong-field laser physics and biophotonics.
You can also use the annual reports to get an idea of the faculty's activities in teaching and research.