Graduate School Advanced Condensed Matter Science

Advanced Condensed Matter Science is one of the major research topics in Stuttgart. Based on their excellent scientific achievements and on the outstanding international reputation in that field, the University Departments of Physics and Chemistry and the two Max Planck Institutes for Solid State Research and Intelligent Systems have teamed up to establish a Graduate School Advanced Condensed Matter Science within the framework of the Excellence Initiative in Germany.

Condensed Matter Science investigates the properties of condensed matter and its model systems. In Stuttgart this key discipline is represented in a particularly broad fashion on an internationally leading level. The Graduate School will cover the field in its entire breadth from basic research in highly topical areas all the way to applied materials research. Topics such as structure, electronic properties, transport, and optics of solid state as well as soft matter will play the key roles. Additionally, novel artificial solids such as metamaterials, atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, and nanoscopic matter with quantum properties are at the focus of the research.

The Graduate School will carry out the graduate education of students after their B.Sc. degree, granting M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the area of advanced condensed matter science. It will be tightly linked to existing research clusters in Stuttgart and the International Max Planck Research School for Advanced Materials (IMPRS-AM).

We aim at putting Humboldt’s ideal of the unity of teaching and research into practice: B.Sc. students will join the Graduate School immediately after their B.Sc. degree. They will obtain a combined education that includes research early on as well as intensive coursework all the way up to the Ph.D. examination. Additionally, an entry point for students with an external M.Sc. degree is provided. This system is intended to be compatible with American graduate schools that are targeting B.Sc. level students from around the world. Students will benefit greatly from being involved in an interdisciplinary and active research environment very early on, for example by specific lab courses on subjects of current research.

The Graduate School will form ties with neighboring disciplines such as materials science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, organic chemistry, and biology.

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