Research - Teaching - Excellence
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bonn offers researchers and students some unique opportunities in terms of education, academic and scientific diversity, and global networking. Whether it is performed in a laboratory, out in the field, at a computer or in front of a whiteboard, the work done at the faculty is interdisciplinary, forward-looking and extremely highly regarded on the international stage.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is the only one at the University of Bonn to be divided into specialized departments called Fachgruppen (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics/Astronomy, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biology, Pharmacy, Molecular Biomedicine). The institutes based in these specialized departments boast outstanding track records in research.
The degree programs offered by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences cover the whole range of disciplines encountered in the natural sciences.
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06 November 2024
Congratulations: Re-election of the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MNF) announces that Prof. Dr. Walter Witke (Institute of Genetics) was re-elected as Dean of the Faculty for another term on August 28, 2024. The re-election by the Faculty Council was unanimous.
Witke began his first term as Dean on April 1, 2021. His second four-year term will extend until 2029 and will accompany the upcoming phase of the Excellence Initiative.
Academic and scientific work at the highest level: the research we are doing in the faculty
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Your future, any number of possibilities: the degree programs we offer at the faculty
Key Semester Dates
Winter Term 2024/2025 (1 October 2024 - 31 March 2025)
Lecture Period
7 October 2024 - 31 January 2025 (Xmas break 24 December - 6 January)
Opening of the academic year: 18 October
Dies Academicus: 4 December
Summer Term 2025 (1 April - 30 September 2025)
Lecture Period
7 April – 18 July 2025
Dies academicus: 14 Mai 2025