The following knowledge must have been acquired during the
bachelor study (percentages are used if no ECTS credits are provided):

• knowledge of a programming language corresponding to 8 ECTS credits or 4% and
• 24 ECTS credits or 13% which can be assigned to one the following

specialization fields:

1. Atmospheric Physics:

Experimental Physics (Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Atoms and Molecules), Thermodynamics, Data Analysis and Statistics

Self-assessment for Atmospheric Physics

2. Computational Electromagnetics:

Electromagnetics / Electromagnetic Theory, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Techniques in Engineering /Computational Engineering

Self-assessment for Computational Electromagnetics

3. Computational Finance:

Analysis I, II and III, Linear Algebra I and Introduction to Stochastic Calculus, Introduction into Numerical Analysis, Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations, Functional Analysis

Self-assessment for Computational Finance

4. Computational Fluid Mechanics:

Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Methods (or similar)

CFM1.1-Self-assessment for Computational Fluid Dynamics

CFM2-Self-assessment for Pedestrian Dynamcis

5. Detector Physics:

Newton’s laws, circular motion, harmonic oscillator, forced oscillations, energy and momentum conservation, elastic scattering. Basic relations of relativistic kinematics. Coloumb’s law of electric forces, Lorentz force, law of induction, propagation of planar electromagnetic waves in vacuum and matter. Quantisation of energy levels in atoms, excitations of atoms, photoelectric effect, description of microscopic particles with wave functions, Compton scattering. Radioactive decays.

Self-assessment for Detector Physics

6. Imaging in Medicine

Atomic Physics, Nuclear Physics, Basic Quantum Mechanics

Self-assessment for Imaging in Medicine

7. Molecular and Materials Modelling:

Physical Chemistry (including Introductory Thermodynamics), Modern General Physics.

Self-assessment for Molecular and Materials Modelling

8. Theoretical Particle Physics:

Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics (Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics).

Self-assessment exercises for Theoretical Particle Physics


If the bachelor knowledge is not sufficient for the choice of a specialization field, admission can be granted conditional on the fulfillment of further requirements. Mathematical knowledge corresponding to a Bachelor of Science or Engineering is assumed.