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Julia Tjus holds an honorary doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg
On May 24, 2025, Chalmers University of Technology awarded Prof. Julia Tjus an honorary doctorate. The many years of German-Swedish cooperation should help to uncover the secrets of...
Physics colloquium on June 2: Astrophysical Magnetic Fields - Extreme Energy Source Transferred Through Plasma Interactions
On Monday, June 2, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next meeting of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Dr. Kevin Schoeffler is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Plasma Physics group...
Humboldt Research Award brings guest researcher Hai-Hu Wen to RUB
The Department Physics and Astronomy is hosting an international visitor: Prof. Dr. Hai-Hu Wen from Nanjing University in China will be with us from May through July. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation...
Physics colloquium on May 26: Materials Research in Very High Magnetic Fields
On Monday, May 26, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Prof. Dr. Jochen Wosnitza is director of the high-field magnetic laboratory of the...
41 schoolgirls, countless experiments, 1 review: The schoolgirl project week at Easter 2025
From April 14 to 17, 2025, the Department Physics and Astronomy held its student project week at the Alfried Krupp Student Laboratory. Under the theme “Researcher for a Week,” 41...
Physics Colloquium on May 19: STRONG INTERACTION AMONG HADRONS & CONNECTIONS TO ASTROPHYSICS
On Monday, May 19, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next meeting of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Prof. Dr. Laura Fabbietti, Professor of Dense and Strange Hadronic Matter...
Secure quantum communication with crystals
The future of quantum communication is bright: Dr. Arne Ludwig and his team generate individual light particles in a high-purity crystal to transport information securely.
Elections of the Student Group to the Senate and departmental council
+++ Update from June 24: Due to another network outage on June 23, the voting period will be extended until June 27, 2025 at 12 noon. +++ +++ Update from May 20: Due to the...
Inaugural lecture by Prof. Silvana Botti on May 12: AI-POWERED MATERIALS DESIGN - FROM DISCOVERY TO APPLICATION
On Monday, May 12, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., Prof. Dr. Silvana Botti will give her inaugural lecture as part of our Physics Colloquium. Botti is Professor of Theory of Excited...
Physics colloquium on May 5: EYES VS. RADIOMETERS - A LIGHT POLLUTION ENIGMA
On Monday, May 5, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our Physics Colloquium will take place. Dr. Christopher Kyba works at the Institute of Geography at Ruhr-Universität...
Federal congress for the promotion of MINT teaching
From May 1 to 4, 2025, teachers from all over Germany will meet on the campus of Ruhr-Universität Bochum for the 115th MNU Congress. Participants can expect a program with lectures,...
Physics colloquium on April 28: Helmut Koch memorial colloquium
On Monday, April 28, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the next date of our Physics Colloquium will take place. The date is a memorial colloquium for Prof. Dr. Helmut Koch, who died almost...
Networking conference for Humboldt Fellows at the RUB
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's fellowship holders' meeting took place at Ruhr-Universität Bochum from April 9 to 11. A total of 114 researchers from 37 different countries came to this...
New Emmy Noether Group goes on the hunt for exotic particles
Junior Professor Farah Afzal and her team are investigating the fundamental building blocks of matter: their search for exotic particles begins at Jefferson Lab in Virginia, where they are using the...
Physics Colloquium on April 14: EXPLORING QUANTUM COMPLEXITY IN ARTIFICIAL SUPERCONDUCTING HETEROSTRUCTURES
On Monday, April 14, 2025, at 12:00 c.t., the first date of our physics colloquium this summer semester will take place. Prof. Dr. Niccola Poccia, Professor of Physics of the...
Final data set of the Kilo-Degree Survey provides information about the origin of the universe
8 years and 41 million galaxies: An international research team has analyzed the final data from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS). These confirm a standard model of the distribution of matter in the...
New faculty regulations published
On March 25, 2025, the new faculty regulations of Department Physics and Astronomy were published as Official Notice No. 1676. The regulations take effect on the date of their publication...
First milestone of the Euclid mission: data from galaxies 10 billion light years away
The Euclid space telescope provides completely new insights into the dark universe. The European Space Agency ESA has now published the first large data set from the mission:...