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The Faculty of Physics operates a largely independent IT infrastructure to cover the specific needs of the faculty. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
Due to staff shortages, our service hours are limited to Mondays to Fridays from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. Unfortunately, we are unable to process requests outside these service hours. You can contact us by email at phyadmin@physik.uni-bielefeld.de.
Please keep in mind that incoming requests are processed according to their priority under consideration of urgency and importance. Hence, your request may not be procssed immediately.
Contact persons
Consulting services
- General IT use
- research data management
Within the Data Champions network:
- Advice on electronic laboratory journals
- Development of research data management plans
- Implementation of research data management plans in one's specific user context
- Coordination of Open Data projects
- Long-term archiving
- Third-party funding applications
- Procurement
Access to a physics account
The Faculty of Physics operates its own Identify Management System with separate accounts independent of BITS / the University. The user name is usually the first letter of your first name followed by your last name (without special characters), completely written in lower case. The email address is accountname@physik.uni-bielefeld.de.
For example, "Jane Fiona Smith-Doe's" username would be jsmithdoe (without hyphen), the corresponding email address is jsmithdoe@physik.uni-bielefeld.de.
A login is always made with the user name, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Entitled to a physics account are:
- Students (including non-faculty members) working in physics working groups or taking educational courses in physics
- Employees of the Faculty of Physics
- Visiting scientists, also within cooperations.
Accounts will be deactivated after six months of inactivity and after leaving the university. Deactivation will be announced at least two weeks in advance by email.
Available services/software & instructions
You can find a list of the services we operate and the software we supporte here. Corresponding instructions for it's use can be found on our instructions page.
The technology we use to maintain this has also been documented.
Data privacy and usage guidelines
An overview of the data protection declarations and usage guidelines for IT systems operated by the Faculty of Physics can be found on our data protection overview page.