A warm welcome!

The Faculty of Natural Sciences combines exciting research with excellent teaching. It comprises the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Exercise & Health and educates approximately 3,500 students in more than 40 degree programmes. Around 40 professors teach at the faculty, including five recipients of ERC grants and one winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Participation in numerous research networks such as the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 142 "Tailored Nonlinear Photonics" or the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS), an annual third-party funding volume of about 10 million euros and many publications in renowned scientific journals are impressive indicators of the research strength of our faculty.

A detailed portrait is given in the biennial report of the faculty (reporting period 2021/2022, PDF document 10.7 MB).

„Our faculty is characterised by a wide diversity of subjects. Common to all subjects is research at the highest level and an exceptional and successful commitment to good teaching.”

Prof. Dr. Wolf Gero Schmidt,
Dekan der Fakultät für Naturwissenschaften

News

01.03.2024

Six Paderborn researchers elected to review boards of the German Research Foundation

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27.02.2024

New food traffic light provides more clarity: Paderborn University scientist involved in improving the Nutri-Score

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22.02.2024

Paderborn physicists develop new solar cell

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19.02.2024

Measuring the properties of light: Scientists realise new method for determining quantum states

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29.01.2024

Green fuel to overcome energy shortages: Dr Ying Pan receives postdoctoral fellowship from Paderborn University

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23.01.2024

Photonic quantum computer to become reality

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05.12.2023

Faculty of Science celebrates its graduates

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08.12.2023

16th Chemistry Christmas Lecture on 14 December: "Cheerful to Christmassy and scientific - of curious coincidences and planned research"

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31.10.2023

New Dean's Office of the Faculty of Science as of WS 2023/24

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Study

The range of courses offered by the Faculty of Science is broad and is regularly developed further. In addition to the core subjects of the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Exercise & Health, it also includes numerous interdisciplinary offers as well as English-language degree programmes.

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Research

The faculty contributes significantly to the appeal of Paderborn University by means of excellent and widely visible research. Here we focus in particular on optoelectronics and photonics, photonic quantum technologies and sustainable chemistry including new hydrogen technologies. Our research is embedded in three key research areas of Paderborn University: "Optoelectronics and Photonics", "Sustainable Materials, Processes and Products", and "Transformation and Education“.

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Overarching events

Physics Colloquium

During the lecture period usually on Thursday at 4:15 pm in lecture hall A1 ...

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Chemical Colloquium GDCh

During the lecture period, usually on Monday from 4:15 p.m. to approx. 5:30 p.m. in the A4 ...

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Faculty celebration

Save the Date! The planned date for the Faculty Celebration of Natural Sciences 2023 is 25 November 2023, beginning at 4 p.m. in the Audimax of UPB.

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