Departments
The Faculty of Sciences consists of six Departments which comprise several chairs and professorships.
Faculty of Sciences
Department of Biology
Chairs (divisions)
- Animal Physiology (Prof. Dr. Johann Helmut Brandstätter)
- Biochemistry (Prof. Dr. Uwe Sonnewald)
- Biotechnology (Prof. Dr. Yves Muller)
- Cell Biology (Prof. Dr. Benedikt Kost)
- Developmental Biology (Prof. Dr. Wiebke Herzog)
- Genetics (Prof. Dr. Falk Nimmerjahn)
- Mathematics in Life Sciences (Prof. Dr. Vasily Zaburdaev)
- Microbiology (Prof. Dr. Steffen Backert)
- Molecular Plant Physiology (Prof. Dr. Markus Albert)
- Pharmaceutical Biology (Prof. Dr. Gregor Fuhrmann)
Professorships
- Biochemistry (Prof. Dr. Christian Koch)
- Cellular Morphogenesis (Heisenberg Professorship) (Prof. Dr. Sabine Müller)
- Computational Biology (Prof. Dr. Rainer Böckmann)
- Developmental Biology (Prof. Dr. Elke Ober)
- Experimental Molecular Cell Dynamics (Prof. Dr. Esther Zanin)
- Genetics (Prof. Dr. Lars Nitschke)
- Genetics (Prof. Dr. Thomas Winkler)
- Microbiology (Prof. Dr. Andreas Burkovski)
- Neurobiology (Prof. Dr. Andreas Feigenspan)
- Plant Cell Biology (Prof. Dr. Petra Dietrich)
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Chairs (divisions)
- Aroma and Smell Research (Prof. Dr. Andrea Büttner)
- Chemistry of Thin Film Materials (Prof. Dr. Julien Bachmann)
- Food Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Monika Pischetsrieder)
- Inorganic and General Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Karsten Meyer)
- Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Harder)
- Interface Research and Catalysis (Prof. Dr. Jörg Libuda)
- Medicinal Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Peter Gmeiner)
- Organic Chemistry I (Prof. Dr. Henry Dube)
- Organic Chemistry II (Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch)
- Pharmaceutics (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Fischer)
- Physical Chemistry I (Prof. Dr. Dirk Guldi)
- Physical Chemistry II (Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück)
- Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Andreas Görling)
Professorships
- Computational Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Petra Imhof)
- Computational Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Bernd Meyer)
- Food Safety and Food Quality (Prof. Dr. Simon Hammann)
- Inorganic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Nicolai Burzlaff)
- Inorganic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Romano Dorta)
- Medicinal Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Jutta Eichler)
- Medicinal Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrich)
- Molecular and Clinical Pharmacy (Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühlich)
- Molecular Nanostructures (Prof. Dr. Franziska Gröhn)
- Organic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Andrij Mokhir)
- Organic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schatz)
- Organic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Svetlana Tsogoeva)
- Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Thomas Drewello)
- Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Rainer Fink)
- Physical Chemistry (N.N.)
- Sensory Sciences (Prof. Dr. Danijela Gregurec)
- Theoretical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Dirk Zahn)
- X-Ray Spectroscopy (HIERN) (Prof. Dr. Marcus Bär)
Centres
Department of Data Science
Professorships
- Analytics and Mixed-integer Optimization (N.N)
- Data Analytics (Prof. Dr. Timm Oertel)
- Digital Sovereignity (Prof. Dr. Johannes Helbig)
- Mathematical Statistics and Data Science (Prof. Dr. Marie-Christine Düker)
- Optimization under Uncertainty and Data Analysis (Prof. Dr. Frauke Liers)
Department of Geography and Geosciences
Institute of Geography
Chairs (divisions)
- Geography (Cultural Geography) (Prof. Dr. Georg Glasze)
- Geography (Cultural Geography) (Prof. Dr. Perdita Pohle)
- Geography (Physical Geography) (Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning)
Professorships
- Geography (Prof. Dr. Rupert Bäumler)
- Geography (Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun)
- Geography (Prof. Dr. Tobias Chilla)
- Geography (Prof. Dr. Fred Krüger)
- Geography (Prof. Dr. Thomas Mölg)
- Geography (Prof. Dr. Blake Walker)
Geozentrum Nordbayern
Chairs (divisions)
- Applied and Environment Geology (Prof. Johannes Barth, PhD)
- Endogenous Geodynamics (Prof. Dr. Karsten Haase)
- Geology (Prof. Dr. Harald Stollhofen)
- Mineralogy (N.N.)
- Palaeontology (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling)
Professorships
Department of Mathematics
Chairs (divisions)
- Analysis (Prof. Dr. Emil Wiedemann)
- Applied Mathematics (Continuous Optimization) (Prof. Dr. Michael Stingl)
- Applied Mathematics (Modeling and Numerics) (deputy: Prof. Dr. Stefan Metzger)
- Applied Mathematics (Scientific Computing) (Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bänsch)
- Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics (Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professur) (Prof. Dr. Enrique Zuazua)
- Mathematics (Operator Algebras) (Heisenberg Professorship) (Prof. Dr. Gandalf Lechner)
- Mathematics (Lie Groups and Representation Theory) (Prof. Dr. Karl-Hermann Neeb)
- Mathematics (Mathematical Physics) (deputy: Prof. Dr. Jacobus Sanders)
- Mathematical Stochastics (Prof. Dr. Torben Krüger)
- Representation Theory (Prof. Dr. Thomas Creutzig)
Professorships
- Applied Analysis (Prof. Dr. Hannes Meinlschmidt)
- Applied Mathematics (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Achtziger)
- Applied Mathematics (Prof. Dr. Giovanni Fantuzzi)
- Applied Mathematics (Analysis and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations) (Prof. Dr. Günther Grün)
- Applied Mathematics (Applied Analysis) (Prof. Dr. Manuel Friedrich)
- Applied Mathematics (Scientific Computing) (Prof. Dr. Carsten Gräser)
- Mathematics (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stummer)
- Mathematics (Algebra and Geometry) (Prof. Dr. Peter Fiebig)
- Mathematics (Analysis) (Prof. Dr. Lea Boßmann)
- Mathematics (Mathematical Physics) (Prof. Dr. Hermann Schulz-Baldes)
- Mathematics (Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics) (Prof. Dr. Catherine Meusburger)
- A (Prof. Dr. Kang Li)
Department of Physics
Chairs (divisions)
- Applied Physics (Prof. Dr. Heiko Weber)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics (Prof. Dr. Wilms)
- Biological Optomechanics (Prof. Dr. Guck)
- Biophysics (Prof. Dr. Fabry)
- Experimental Physics (Prof. Dr. Maultzsch)
- Experimental Physics (Astroparticle Physics) (Prof. Dr. Katz)
- Experimental Physics (Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship) (Prof. Dr. Sandoghdar)
- Experimental Physics (Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Professorship) (N.N.)
- Experimental Physics (Prof. Dr. Christopher Eichler)
- Experimental Astroparticle Physics (Prof. Dr. Claudio Kopper)
- Solid State Physics (Prof. Dr. Daniele Fausti)
- Crystallography and Structural Physics (N.N.)
- Laser Physics (Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff)
- Optical Quantum Technologies (Prof. Dr. Christoph Marquardt)
- Physics (Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk)
- Theoretical Physics I (Prof. Dr. Klaus Mecke)
- Theoretical Physics II (Prof. Dr. Michael J. Hartmann)
- Theoretical Physics III (Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemann)
- Theoretical Physics (Prof. Dr. Florian Marquardt)
- Theoretical Physics (Prof. Dr. Kai Philipp Schmidt)
- Theoretical Solid-State Physics (N.N.)
Professorships
- Applied Physics (Prof. Dr. Vojislav Krstić)
- Biomedical Physics (N.N.)
- Biomedical Technology (Max Schaldach-Stiftungsprofessur für Biomedizinische Technik) (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hensel)
- Crystallography and Structural Physics (Prof. Dr. Rainer Hock)
- Didactics of Physics (Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Meyn)
- Experimental Physics (Prof. Dr. M. Alexander Schneider)
- Experimental Physics (Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier)
- Experimental Physics (Astroparticle Physics) (Prof. Dr. Christopher van Eldik)
- Experimental Physics (Astroparticle Physics, Radio Detection of Neutrinos) (Prof. Dr. Anna Nelles)
- Experimental Physics (Photonics) (Prof. Dr. Nicolas Joly)
- Experimental Physics (Scanning Probe Microscopy) (Prof. Dr. Sabine Maier)
- General Mineralogy / Crystallography (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Neder)
- Multiwavelength Astronomy (Prof. Dr. Manami Sasaki)
- Nanomaterials Characterization (Prof. Dr. Tobias Unruh)
- Optics (Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova)
- Physics (SAOT) (Prof. Dr. Stephan Götzinger)
- Theoretical Physics (Prof. Dr. Daniel Burgarth)
- Theoretical Physics (Prof. Dr. Kristina Giesel)
- Theoretical Physics (Prof. Dr. Hanno Sahlmann)
- Theoretical Physics (Prof. Dr. Ana-Suncana Smith)
- Theoretical Physics (Molecular Materials) (Prof. Dr. Philipp Hansmann)
Biotechnological Development Laboratory (BTE)