The study model at the Universität Bielefeld is structured in a unified manner across all faculties. This enables the students to create an individual, inter-disciplinary specialisation. Networking between the Departments of Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Technology promotes an active course of studies beyond subject boundaries.

Uni Aarhus, Dänemark; Uni Jyväskylä, Finnland; Uni Paris Sud, Frankreich; Uni Bergen, Norwegen; Uni Tromsö, Norwegen; Uni Wroclawski, Polen; Uni Complutense de Madrid, Spanien; Nat. Changhua University of Education, Taiwan; Uni Ankara, Türkei; King's College London, England

GPU-based cluster computers (500 Tflops); LOFAR station; focussed-ion beam; helium ion microscope; low-temperature lab; high-resolutions widefield microscope; ultra high-resolution transmission electron microscope; UHV scanning electron microscope; ultrafast spectroscopy; Thz Spectroscopy; laser spectroscopy; clean rooms.

Based on the traditional fields of Physics, the faculty has placed key areas of experimental and theoretical research in the fields of Biophysics, Supramolecular Structures, Nanostructure Physics, Light-Matter-Interaction and Astroparticle Physics & Cosmology. In theoretical Physics, there is further specialisation in the field of Elementary Particle Physics, especially Elementary Particles Matter under the extreme conditions which occur in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, in the early universe and in Astrophysics.

The experimental setup in the basic and advanced practicals are modernised and upgraded; a new work room with 25 computer workstations for training in Computer Science and Computer Applications in Physics (MatLab, LabView, Mathematica) has been established.