Erlangen Centre 
ECAP
News: topics for bachelor and master theses |
| The Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics offers many interesting topics for bachelor and master theses. The lists of topics (in German) for the different projects can be found via the following links: |
 Gamma-ray astronomy (Dr. Ira Jung, Dr. Kathrin Valerius) and Gamma-ray astronomy (Prof. Christopher van Eldik) |
| Neutrino detection: ANTARES/KM3NET and Acoustic detection |
| Radiation Physics |
| Astronomy |
- Foto: Richard Tuffs, MPIK / arranged: Milde Marketing
In 2007 the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg founded the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP). ECAP encompasses the working groups of eleven professors with over eighty scientists. An electronics and a mechanics workshop with more than twenty technicians support the research. Overall, more than 2000 square meters of laboratory space are available.
The ECAP has within the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg an outstanding position, assigned as one out of three Emerging Field Centres of the university. This initative advances forward-looking and promising science centres.
The Helmholtz Alliance Astroparticle Physics was founded in July 2011 by Helmholtz institutes, Max-Planck institutes and universities and the ECAP is not only part of it but also the largest university partner within.
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Our key topics
The Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics combines expertise in the fields of neutrino, X-ray and very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. With the ECAP, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg has created an outstanding framework for scientists to participate in major projects of astroparticle physics. ECAP also integrates the research in optical astronomy and the development of new detectors.
The research at the ECAP covers the following astroparticle physics topics: the field of neutrino astronomy is the focus of the projects ANTARES and KM3NeT; the experiments H.E.S.S. and - in the future - CTA work in the field of very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy; the satellite experiments eROSITA and ATHENA belong to a new generation of X-ray telescopes. In all of these experiments, scientists of the ECAP are deeply involved in the manifold challenges of constructing and running detectors in such extreme conditions as the deep sea or space.
School for astroparticle physics
Since the year 2004, the University of Erlangen hosts the School for astroparticle physics (SAT), addressing students from all over Germany. The yearly school, held over 10 days in October, allows the participants to deepen their understanding of the fundamental concepts of astroparticle physics, and to gain insight on up-to-date research topics and to get to know each other.