30 physics professors in Germany, at 13 universities. The most represented are RWTH Aachen University, Universität Hamburg and University of Freiburg. 2 of them are verified faculty: their current appointment was confirmed against their own university's pages or a current faculty record in ORCID, and they are listed first.
The list is built from open publication data (OpenAlex and ORCID), the same data ProfScout uses in the app: actively publishing faculty at the largest research universities in Germany whose recent work sits in physics. Retired, trainee and staff-scientist records are filtered out where the public record identifies them. It is not a prestige ranking: professors are listed by how prominently physics figures in their published work, verified faculty first. Reply-fit scores, which weigh how likely each professor is to answer a student's email, are computed for your own profile inside ProfScout. Updated September 2026; the list is rebuilt from the open record a few times a year.
Physics and Astronomy · Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studiesHigh-Energy Particle Collisions ResearchQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Universities on this list: RWTH Aachen University (6) · Universität Hamburg (5) · University of Freiburg (5) · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (3) · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2) · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2) · Heidelberg University (1) · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (1) · Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (1) · Technische Universität Dresden (1) · University of Bonn (1) · University of Göttingen (1) · University of Stuttgart (1)
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