Students find a fantastic study environment at the Institute of Physics. Small group sizes ensure excellent support during their studies. The modern building on the science campus offers outstanding conditions for intensive study with tight connections to state-of-the-art research.

In addition to traditional physics programs (Bachelor and Master of Science), the Institute of Physics also offers a program in Environmental Sciences (BSc), an interdisciplinary study program of physics, chemistry, ecology, microbiology, geology and mathematics, supplemented by courses in law and economics.

Starting in the winter semester 2020/2021 a program in Teaching of Physics for secondary/grammar school and starting in the winter semester 2021/2022 a MSc program in Medical Physics is offered.

Our research directions within the institute divisions and research and collaborative research activities:

• SFB 1270 „ELektrisch Aktive ImplaNtatE – ELAINE“, Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ursula van Rienen, University of Rostock
• DFG Priority Programme 1648 "Software for Exascale Computing"
• DFG Priority Programme 1666 "Topological Insulators"
• DFG priority program 2137 " DFG Priority Program Skyrmionics: Topological Spin Phenomena in Real-Space for Applications"

Greifswald is a European and worldwide centre for plasma research with 150 years of tradition. The Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP Greifswald) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), hosting the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator experiment, are important local partner institutes of the Institute of Physics. Together the three institutes cover an unusally wide range of plasma science and technology.