Institutes and research centres

The Department of Physics has six institutes and participates in five research centres. The institutes and research centres are spread over three locations of the department.

Institutes

• Institute of Experimental Physics
• Institute of Laser Physics
• Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics
• I. Institute for Theoretical Physics
• II. Institute for Theoretical Physics (in German available only)
• Hamburg Observatory

University research centres

• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Zentrum für Naturwissenschaft und Friedensforschung (ZNF) (partly in German available only)
• Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL)
• Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHYN)
• Center of Competence in Nano-Scale Analysis (CCN) (in German available only)
• Center for Mathematical Physics Hamburg (ZMP)
• Centre for Optical Quantum Technologies (ZOQ)

Clusters of Excellence

• CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter
• Quantum Universe

Locations of institutes and research centres

External research institutions

• Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
• European XFEL
• Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht – Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
• Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD)