For students from our partner universities: practical experience at our faculty as part of a summer programme.

Looking for a meaningful internship experience with a research team in a chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics or computer sciences lab?
We are happy to announce this special opportunity developed for students as part of international university partnerships.
Our departments for chemistry and biology as well as physics, mathematics and computer sciences offer many exciting projects. Whether you are interested in the discovery of new materials, the biology of ecosystems, atmospheric sciences, the synthesis of new compounds, the chemistry of our food or the effects of compounds on cells and diseases, you surely will find the right fit for you.
Research groups within the department of physics:
Link to the research groups (in German language)
Broaden your horizon and get involved in current projects in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Computer Sciences!
Research Groups - Chemistry and Biology
Prof Adam Slabon
Research interests: Synthesis of New Compounds, Green Chemistry, Photocatalysis, Electrochemistry
To the research group "Sustainable Chemistry and Energy Conversion"
Prof Dr Carsten Jenne
Research interests: Molecular Chemistry of non-metals
To the research group "Boron Chemistry"
Prof Dr Fabian Mohr
Research interests: Metal Complexes with Biological Activity, Organometallic Chemistry
To the research group "Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry"
Prof Dr Claudia Bohrmann-Linde
Research interests: Development of Experiments suitable for schools, Didactic Concepts and Accompanying Teaching and Learning Media on the topics of Energy, Energy Conversion and Sustainable Resource Utilisation
To the research group "Chemistry Didactics"
Prof Dr Felix Strieth-Kalthoff
Research interests: Development of (Bayesian) Machine Learning Methods for Chemical Reactivity
To the research group Strieth-Kalthoff
Prof Dr Nils Helge Schebb
Research interests: Metabolomics of Lipids and Cellular Metabolites to investigate the Influence of Nutrition on human health
To the research group Schebb
Prof Dr Julia Bornhorst
Research interests: Role of Environmentally and Nutritionally Relevant Metals, in Particular Trace Elements, in Health and Disease
To the research group Bornhorst
Prof Dr Hans-Willi Kling
Research interests: Sustainable Sevelopment, Conservation of Resources, Utilisation of Renewable Raw Materials instead of petroleum-based materials
To the research group "Management of Chemical Processes in Industry and Analytical Chemistry"
Prof Dr Robert Göstl
Research interests: Sustainable Functional and Responsive Polymers, Development of Mechanochemical and Photochemical Methods for the Synthesis, Characterisation and Degradation of Polymer Materials
To the research group "Sustainable Macromolecular Chemistry"
Prof Dr Stefan F. Kirsch
Research interests: Creating Diversity in the Synthesis of Small Molecules; Targeted Synthesis of Complex Organic Molecules with promising biological properties
To the research group Kirsch
Prof Dr Jürgen Scherkenbeck
Research interests: Bioorganic Chemistry, Development of Resistance-breaking Antibiotics; Design and Synthesis of new Inhibitors of oncogene-mutated Ras proteins
To the research group "Bioorganic Chemistry"
Prof Dr Thorsten Benter
Research interests: Mass Spectrometry; Development of Ionisation Methods
Prof Dr Peter Wiesen
Research interests: Method Development and Modelling of Atmospheric Chemistry, including Simulation Chambers and Flow Reactors, Field Measurements, Emission Measurements etc.
Jun Professor Dr Hilke Bahmann
Prof Dr Gela Preisfeld
Research interests: Zoology (photosymbionts)
To the research group "Zoology and Didactics of Biology"
Prof Dr Gertrud Lohaus
Research interests: Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
To the research group "Botany"
Prof Martin Simon
Research interests: Epigenetic Influences of Regulatory RNA
To the research group "Molecular Cell Biology and Microbiology"
Research Groups - Physics:
Prof Dr Karl-Heinz Kampert
Research interests: Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays (Pierre Auger Project), High-energy Heavy Ion Physics (Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment), Cosmic Interacting Matter (SFB1491), Multi-messenger Approach to Detecting Cosmic Accelerators (MICRO)
Prof Dr Klaus Helbing
Research interests: Relict Particles of the Big Bang, Signatures beyond the Standard Model, Properties of Neutrinos, Particle Detection in ice
Prof Dr Emma Järvinen
Research interests: Analysis of the Optical Properties of Ice Clouds and Aerosol Particles and their Influence on Radiation and Climate
Prof Dr Claus Michael Volk
Research interests: Experimental Physics with a Focus on Global Atmospheric Research
Prof Dr Johannes Grebe-Ellis
Research interests: Phenomenology in the Natural Sciences, Curriculum Development, Phenomenological Contextualisation of Selected Areas of Physics, especially Optics from a physical and historical perspective (Kepler, Bartholinus, Huygens, Newton, Goethe), Focus on Phenomenological Optics, Investigation of Learning Conditions in blocked / epochalised Forms of Teaching, Learning During Sleep, Development of Installations and Exhibition on various physics topics
To the research group "Physics and its Didactics"
Prof Dr Wolfgang Wagner
Research interests: Measurement of Top Quark Properties with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Development and Construction of Components for the Readout of Silicon Pixel Detectors, Development of Software for Operating the ATLAS Pixel Detector
Prof Dr Christian Zeitnitz
Research interests: Research into Elementary Particles, Participation in CERN's ATLAS, Development of Detectors for the Detection of Particles
Prof Dr Christian Hemker-Heß
Research interests: Quantum Matter: Systems of Correlated Electrons, Low-dimensional Quantum Magnets, Unconventional Superconductors, Topological Materials; Transport Properties of Quantum Matter; Spin Heat Transport in Quantum Magnets; Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Quantum Matter at low temperatures
Prof Dr Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht
Research interests: Solid state and Surface Physics, Nanomaterials, X-ray Physics
Prof Dr Hermann Boos
Research interests: Integrable Quantum Field Theory and Lattice Models, Representation Theory of Quantum Groups
Prof Dr Frank Göhmann
Research interests: Integrable Lattice Models and Quantum Field Theories, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Magnetism
Prof Dr Michael Karbach
Research interests: Classical and Quantum Mechanical Exactly Solvable Many-body Models, Fractional Statistics, Statistical Distribution of Photons
Prof Dr Zoltan Fodor
Research interests: Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physics, Fundamental Properties of Quarks and Hadrons, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), ab initio Methods and Computer Simulations
Prof Dr Francesco Knechtli
Research interests: Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), in particular Spectroscopy of Charmonium and Glueballs, Static-light systems, Algorithmic Developments and Strong Coupling
Prof Dr Szabolcs Borsanyi
Prof Dr Christian Hölbling
Jun Prof Dr Jana Günther
Research Groups - Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Prof Dr Matthias Ehrhardt
Research interests: Computational Physics, Computational Finance, Modelling, Numerical Mathematics
Prof Dr Michael Günther
Research interests: Modelling, Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Coupled Dynamic Systems (ODEs, DAEs, SDEs, PDAEs, Port-Hamiltonian Systems); Time Integration Methods: Dynamic Iteration, Multirate Methods, Machine Learning and Model Order Reduction
Prof Dr Thomas Kruse
Research interests: Monte Carlo Methods, Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Control Theory, Machine Learning
To the research group "Applied and Computational Mathematics"
Prof Dr Kathrin Klamroth
Research interests: Multi-criteria Optimisation, Continuous and Discrete Optimisation, Optimisation and AI, Location Optimisation, Applications in Business and Engineering
Jun Professor Dr Claudia Totzeck
Research interests: Modelling, Optimisation and Simulation with Interacting Particle Systems
Prof Dr Barbara Rüdiger-Mastandrea
Research interests: Stochastic (Partial) Differential Equations with Additive (Gaussian and non-Gaussian) Noise, Mathematical Physics, Financial Mathematics
To the website "Stochastics"
Prof Dr Ralf Benölken
Research interests: Mathematical Aptitude, Gender and Mathematics Education, Inclusive Mathematics Education, Teaching-learning Labs
Prof Dr Stephan Berendonk
Prof Dr Marei Fetzer
Research interests: Tools and Objects in Primary School Mathematics Lessons, Digital-based Learning Environments, Language and Mathematics, Multilingualism and Mathematical Learning, Argumentation in Mathematics Lessons, Development of an Interaction Theory of Mathematical Learning and Further Development of Mathematics Didactic Research Methods
Prof Dr Ralf Krömer
Prof Dr Thomas Morel
Research interests: History of Mathematics and its Didactics
Prof Dr Wolfgang Schwarz
Research interests: Elementary Mathematics, Heuristic Strategies of Problem Solving, Textbook Work
Prof Dr Elke Söbbeke
Research interests: Epistemological Conditions of Learning Mathematics; Language Use and Mathematical Teaching and Learning Processes; Reasoning, Arguing, Generalising with Visual Aids; Learning Mathematics and Multilingualism in Primary School; Digital Mathematics Teacher Training
To the research group "Didactics and History of Mathematics"
Prof Dr Sascha Orlik
Research interests: Arithmetic Geometry; P-adic Periodic Domains, Langlands Programme, Deligne-Lusztig Varieties, Representation Theory of P-adic and Finite Groups of Lie Type
Prof Dr Kay Rülling
Prof Dr Britta Späth
Research interests: Group and Representation Theory of Finite Groups: Conjectures of Alperin, Brauer, Dade and McKay; Finite Groups of Lie Type; Modular Representation Theory
Prof Dr Balint Farkas
Jun Prof Hannes Gernandt
Research interests: Differential-algebraic Equations, Dissipative and Port-Hamiltonian Systems, Operator and Spectral Theory, Predictive Control of Energy Systems
Jun Prof Dr Jochen Glück
Research interests: Evolution Equations and Operator Semigroups (especially their long-term behaviour), Operator Theory (especially Spectral Theory), Order Structures in Functional Analysis (especially Banach Lattices and Ordered Banach Spaces), Closed Positivity, Functional Analytical Methods for Studying Differential Equations, Systems and Control Theory
Prof Dr Birgit Jacob
Research interests: Analysis and Mathematical Systems Theory
Prof Dr Jean Ruppenthal
Research interests: Interaction between Analysis and Geometry in Singular Spaces, Cauchy-Riemann Partial Differential Equations and d-Bar-Neumann Operator in Singular Spaces
Prof Dr Nikolay Shcherbina
Prof Dr Jens Hornbostel
Prof Dr Matthias Wendt
Research interests: Motivic Homotopy Theory; Homotopy of Algebraic Groups and Torsor Classification, Computations of Group Homology of Linear Groups in connection with K-Theory, Theory of Motives, Motivic Co-Homology, Group Homology, Shear congruences in Hilbert's Third Problem
Prof Dr Andreas Frommer
Research interests: Parallel Numerical Algorithms, Scientific Computing in Theoretical Physics, Numerical Linear Algebra, Verified Numerics
Prof Dr Bruno Lang
Research interests: Efficient Eigenvalue and SVD Calculations, Result-verifying Algorithms, Flow Networks, Data Structures and Algorithms for (Non-) Dominance Filtering
Prof Dr Matthias Bolten
Research interests: Numerical Analysis; Numerical Linear Algebra; Multigrid Methods; Structured Matrices, in particular Toeplitz Matrices and Matrices from Matrix Algebras; Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations; Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations
To the research group "Scientific Computing and High Performance Computing"
Last modified: 16.06.2025