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Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover

Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik
Appelstraße 2
D-30167 Hannover
Telephone: +49 511 762-5499
https://www.uni-hannover.de

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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,460

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

220

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/14 points

International orientation

Share of anglophone research groups

70.0%

Research

Research profile (distribution of PhD theses)

  • Optical, Quantum Optical, Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics: 45.3%
  • Surface Physics and Nanostructures: 1.7%
  • Solid-state and Materials Physics: 13.7%
  • Particle Physics: 17.1%
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy: 18.8%
  • Soft matter physics, Biological and Chemical Physics, interdisciplinary works: 3.4%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Laboratory internships
Research orientation
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Student Workstations
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

38

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

26

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Wide range of electives in the Master. Research Intensive Master's Degree (60 LP).

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Rom "La Sapienza", Italien; Groningen, Niederlande; Lissabon, Portugal; Göteborg Chalmers, Schweden; Barcelona, Spanien; Kopenhagen, Dänemark

Special features regarding research activities

Support of two clusters of excellence on quantum optics and phontonics. Participation in another interdisciplinary on the hearing process. Close links exist with the Max Planck Society in gravitational wave research and with the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in the field of quantum optics.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

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(P) = Professors' judgements

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