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Career prospects
The job market offers physicists very good opportunities: The range of activities is diverse and increasingly includes areas of responsibility in interdisciplinary areas. They typically work at research facilities and institutes as well as universities. In addition, physicists are also in great demand in mechanical engineering or vehicle construction companies, in the manufacture of medical devices, in the semiconductor industry, in the energy sector, in data processing services or in software development, as experts in engineering offices and in science journalism. Other fields of activity are in public administration, e.g. in calibration and testing offices or at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection.