How to find me

The nearest international airport is in Frankfurt (Flughafen Frankfurt am Main). It is the biggest airport in Germany and it is conveniently connected to Würzburg by a direct high speed train every hour, taking about 1h 25 min. The train station Frankfurt am Main Flughafen Fernbahnhof (Fernbahnhof = long-distance station) is located underground, below the airport.

Important: do not confuse Frankfurt Airport with the smaller and badly connected Frankfurt-Hahn (Flughafen Frankfurt-Hahn), which is actually 120km west and whose name provoked a controversy with Lufthansa!

Other options include flying to Nürnberg (around 2 hours from Würzburg but with way fewer international destinations) or to Münich (second biggest airport in Germany, but around 3 hours and a half from Würzburg). The main train stations of both Nürnberg and Münich are also connected to Würzburg by a direct high speed train every hour, but in both cases one needs to first take a local train from the airport.

Würzburg is well connected by train to many cities in Central and Western Europe, so there is no need to fly! For instance, in 6 hours or less you can reach almost the entirety of Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, as well as e.g. Paris, Prague, Vienna and Zürich.

The central station is called Würzburg Hbf (Hbf = Hauptbahnhof = main station): it is located directly in the city centre and connected by tram and bus lines to the rest of the city. There are also a couple of smaller train stations, only visited by local regional trains.

From Würzburg Hbf there are several bus lines to the main university campus (Hubland Nord). A tram line is currently under construction. Walking is possible (about 50 minutes) but not recommended, since the campus is on the top of a hill. Important: unfortunately the bus driver will only accept cash. In order to pay by card, you can buy a ticket at any machine at the tram stations (be aware that there are no such machines at the campus). If you are staying for multiple days, the best solution is a 6-er ticket (the machine will print three tickets, each of them usable twice), which will save you a few euros.

With bus number 14 the journey takes around 15 minutes, until the bus stop "Am Hubland". Important: do not go further, even if the next stop is called "Mathematische Institut" (it is closer to the older building of the maths institute, but they never updated the name of the bus stop after they moved to the current address).

From the bus stop "Am Hubland", walk (uphill) along Emil-Fischer-Straße for a couple of minutes: on your left, after the building "21 Physik, Astronomie West", you will reach the building "31 Physik, Astronomie Ost" (the actual address is Emil-Fischer-Straße 31). Important: do not go to the two buildings (on your right) called "30 Mathematik West" and "40 Mathematik Ost": most of the other research groups of the mathematical institute work there, but not ours. Similarly, do not get confused by the new building "41 Forschungsbau", which is located between building 30 and 40, despite its address being Emil-Fischer-Straße 41.

The door of building 31 should be open from 8am to 8pm. My office (00.003) is room number 03 at the ground floor; besides from my name, you can recognise it from the "Ἀγεωμέτρητος μηδεὶς εἰσίτω" quote hanging at the door.