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Fakultät II: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften

Technische Universität Berlin

Fakultät II: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften
Physikalische Institute, Sekr. ER 1-1
Straße des 17. Juni 135
D-10623 Berlin
Telephone: +49 30 3142-2202
https://www.tu.berlin

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,610

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

210

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

11/14 points

International orientation

Share of anglophone research groups

100.0%

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

  • Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 30.1%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 33.3%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 13.8%
  • Particle Physics: 0%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 4.1%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 18.7%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
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Courses offered
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Support for stays abroad
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IT-infrastructure
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Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

49

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

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Transition to Master's studies

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Integrated degree courses with theoretical and experimental components (Bachelor's/Master's), basic and applied orientation (cf. field of study Applied, Experimental and Theoretical Physics in the Master's degree course in Physics); broad spectrum of specialisation subjects, in particular from engineering sciences; modern laboratory facilities, multimedia technologies and Internet-supported teaching; intensive support in international exchange programmes; project-oriented teaching; further training in instrumental analysis.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Dänemark; University of Copenhagen, Kopenhagen, Dänemark; CentraleSupélec – Gif Campus/Supélec, Paris, Frankreich; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Niederlande; Lund University, Lund, Schweden; Warsaw University of Technology, Polen; University of Calgary, Canada; Tokyo University of Technology, Japan

Special features regarding the equipment

Nanophotonics centre with clean room; centre for electron microscopy with scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, focused ion beam, microprobe and light microscopy; laser and displays for UV operation, utilisation of extensive computer clusters of the faculty; a practice telescope for astronomics-astrophysics practicals at the universities is available (20cm refractor), as well as CCD cameras.

Special features regarding research activities

SFB "Control of self-organising nonlinear systems; Theoretical methods and concepts of application" (Speaker); Berlin School of Optical Sciences and Quantum Technology (BOS.QT): joint Graduate School of the Physics Departments of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) in partnership with non-university research institutions

Support for founders

Cooperation with the Career Service of the TU Berlin; business start-up courses within the framework of the graduate colleges in Sfbs

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

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Last Update 2021: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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