Physics,
Department
Fachbereich 08: Physik, Mathematik und Informatik at the Uni Mainz
Institut für Physik / Institut für Kernphysik
- Staudingerweg 7 / Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 45
- 55128 Mainz
- Phone: +49 6131 392-4467




General remarks
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Research
Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
Degree courses with details
Further information provided by the department
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Special features regarding teachingCentral degree course organisation (study office), study manager, responsible for international affairs and in-depth counselling; wide range of courses incl. minor subjects, good student-teacher ratio, start of summer and winter semester; project teaching, organisation and counselling (BMBF); recognition of internships at research institutions or industry; science communication, early research contact through presentation of research groups, HiWi offers, research-related teaching and internships, research module, fast track doctorate; learning workshop; HiWi training; holiday courses; learning workshop; compulsory counselling.
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Exchange universities for stay abroadsTohoku University, Japan; Nagoya University, Japan; Seoul National University, Südkorea; University of Glasgow, UK; Universidad de Valencia, Spanien; Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Schweden; Göteborgs universitet, Schweden; Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, Frankreich; Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italien
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Special features regarding the equipmentCoating technology; clean rooms; measurement technology; air-conditioned optical laboratories with precision tables and various lasers; climate chamber; Helium liquefaction facility with helium recovery; cryo equipment; supraconductive magnets; central detector lab of the Excellence Cluster; electronics lab; well equipped Precision Mechanics workshops; technicians as well as electronics technicians in the work groups; central "High Performance Computing" cluster MOGON; electron accelerator MAMI and TRIGA reactor with various experimental facilities on campus.
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Special features regarding research activitiesStrong research faculty in the fields of atomic, nuclear, particle, astroparticle physics, quantum optics and soft matter, hard condensed matter/spintronics; about 300 PhD students; Cluster of Excellence PRISMA, several Collaborative Research Centres/Graduate Schools; Helmholtz Institute HIM, 2 Max Planck Institutes (MPI Chemistry and MPI Polymer Research) and "Institute of Molecular Biology" in the direct vicinity; highly competitive local infrastructure (MAMI electron accelerator, TRIGA research reactor, quantum optics and solid state physics laboratories, High Performance Computing Cluster MOGON).
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Support for foundersRegular event "Physics in Business" with CP; event of the Department of Research and Technology Transfer on business start-up and self-employment; Career-Service of the JGU; Regular "Lunch-Talks" Excellence@WORK on career orientation for natural scientists (MAINZ-School).
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Other special featuresBuddy programme; mentoring; portal for exchange students; offers for interdisciplinary qualifications (e.g. time management, learning and working techniques, training in cooperation, teamwork, communication skills and rules of good scientific practice).
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Further information on research activitieswww.phmi.uni-mainz.de/
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Further information about study entry phasehttps://www.studium.fb08.uni-mainz.de/physik/




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