About us

PhD Studies in Physics at the Faculty of Physics & Astronomy of the Wrocław University is a four-year course preparing its graduates to:

• carry out the scientific research or reseach & development activities in physics or related fields of science, independently or in research groups;
• write and defend the PhD thesis and obtaining the PhD in physics;
• work as a high-school teacher.

From the very beginning the PhD students are part of their supervisor’s research team and are involved in all its activities. The research is carried out either in the Institute of Experimental Physics or the Institute of Theoretical Physics.

The topics of research at the Institute of Experimental Physics include:

• Physicochemistry of the solid state surfaces
• Phase transitions and physical properties of crystals
• Nanostructures
• Surface physics – theory and experiment
• Electron density functional method
• Electron spectroscopy
• Annihilation of positrons and Mössbauer spectroscopy
• Metal-liquid interfaces

 
The research at the Institute of Theoretical Physics includes:

• High-energy physics, including heavy ion collisions and quark-gluon plasma,
• Elementary particles, including the physics of the neutrino,
• Hot and dense matter, compact stars, cosmology
• Supernova and nuclear astrophysics
• Theory of fundamental interactions, including quantum gravitation,
• Computational physics and simulations,
• Mathematical physics,
• Field theory,
• Quantum optics,
• Condensed matter and statistical physics,
• Complex systems,
• Econophysics.

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