Institute for Physics University of Greifswald
Institute for Physics
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald
Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6
17489 Greifswald
Germany
Fon: +49 3834 86 4780
Fax: +49 3834 86 4701
http://www.physik.uni-greifswald.de
hippler@physik.uni-greifswald.de
Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Rainer Hippler
University of Greifswald was founded in 1456. It consists of 5 faculties including natural science and medicine. More than 10500 students are presently enrolled at the University.
The University has a strong background with respect to the Baltic sea region, in life sciences and in plasma physics. The Institute of Physics presently provides a diploma degree (Diplom-Physiker) in physics that, in the context of the Bologna process, is replaced by a bachelor/master programme in physics beginning at the end of 2006. It closely cooperates, e.g., with the Institute of Low Temperature Plasma Physics Greifswald (INP) and with the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysik Greifswald/Garching (IPP), with the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt (GSI), with the University of Kiel, with the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva (CERN), and with the European Space Agency (ESA).
The Institute of Physics is involved in two major national research activities – so-called Sonderforschungsbereiche - funded by the German Research Council (DFG). SFB/TR 24 together with the University of Kiel and with INP Greifswald and IPP Greifswald is devoted to “Fundamentals of Complex Plasmas”, while SFB 652 together with the University of Rostock is focused on "Strong correlations and collective effects in radiation fields: Coulomb systems, clusters and particles".
Major fields of research are
Applied Physics
- Soft matter (polymer films, magnetic nano-particles)
- Signal processing (detection and reconstruction of weak including biological signals)
Experimental Physics
- Low temperature plasma physics
- Thin film deposition and deposition of nano-size clusters
- Fundamentals and applications of dusty plasmas
- Ion cluster traps and precision mass spectrometry
Theoretical and Computational Physics
- Solid state theory
- Complex quantum systems
- Dense plasmas
- Computational materials science (plasma-wall interactions)
