Close supervisory relationship between lecturers and students; committed course representatives; research-oriented teaching in the Bachelor's and Master's courses; reformed introductory study phase for the subject Physics and the Teaching Qualification in Physics; successful PhysLab for school students; Master's Teaching Qualification with a lateral entry profile (Q-Master's).

Københavns-Universitet, Dänemark; Uppsala University, Schweden; Universiteit van Amsterdam, Niederlande; Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, Frankreich; University of Manchester, Großbritanien; Tecnico Lissabon, Portugal; Universidad de Granada, Spanien; Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Polen; Czech Technical University in Prague, Tschechien; Bodazici Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkei

State-of-the-art research facilities in various spectroscopy technologies with applications in Bio, Nano, Surface and Ultrafast Physics; competent services in the fields of IT, Electronics, Precision Engineering; laboratory for Genetic Biophysics; mainframe computer cluster in the Theoretical Physics section; coolant supplied by helium liquefaction system; multi-media laboratory.

Basic research in Experimental Physics with focus on Solid State Physics, Surface, Ultrafast Physics and Biophysics; Theoretical Physics with the "Dahlem Centre for Complex Quantum Systems"; Didactics of Physics with a focus on teacher professionalisation and "learning in the digital world”; there are two DFG Collaborative Research Centres based in the faculty: SFB-TRR 227 "Ultrafast Spin Dynamics" and SFB 1078 "Protein Function by Protonation Dynamics"; Spokesperson of the FU project on the Quality Offensive Teacher Education (BMBF).

Continuous support from the FU's own institution ProFUnd Innovation.