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

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

Location Jungiusstraße (content available in German only)	Location Bahrenfeld (content available in German only)	Location Bergedorf (content available in German only)
Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics I. Institute for Theoretical Physics	Institute of Experimental Physics Institute of Laser Physics II. Institute for Theoretical Physics Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) Center for Hybrid Nanostructures (CHyN) Centre for Optical Quantum Technologies (ZOQ) The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI)	Hamburg Observatory

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)