Institutes and Groups
The four institutes with their more than 40 research groups and one independent professorship are the backbone of the comprehensive research and teaching program of the Department of Physics.
Head of IPA: Rainer Wallny
Deputy: Sascha Quanz
Research groups
Adrian Biland
Very-high-energy Gamma-ray Astronomy
Paolo Crivelli
Exotic Matter
Annapaola de Cosa
Particle Physics
Caroline Dorn
Exoplanet Interiors
Günther Dissertori
High Energy Physics
Christophorus Grab
Particle Physics with Beauty Quarks
Louise Harra
Solar Astrophysics
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Klaus Kirch
Precision Physics at Low Energy
Sascha Quanz
Exoplanets and Habitability
Didier Queloz
Queloz Group
Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL)
Alexandre Refregier
Cosmology
André Rubbia
Exotic Matter and Neutrino Physics
Hans Martin Schmid
High-contrast Astronomical Imaging
Davide Sgalaberna
Particle Physics
Anna Sótér
Low Energy Particle Physics - Fundamental Interactions Group
Veerle Sterken
Astrophysical Dust
Hans-Arno Synal
Ion-beam Physics
Judit Szulágyi
Computational Astrophysics
Rainer Wallny
High Energy Physics
Head of IQE: Steven Johnson
Deputy: Atac Imamoglu
Research groups
Elsa Abreu
Quantum Material Dynamics
Puneet Anantha Murthy
Nanoscale Quantum Optics
Tilman Esslinger
Quantum Optics
Jérôme Faist
Quantum Optoelectronics
Lukas Gallmann
Ultrafast Laser Physics
Rachel Grange
Optical Nanomaterials
Jonathan Home
Trapped Ion Quantum Information
Atac Imamoglu
Quantum Photonics
Steven Johnson
Ultrafast Dynamics
Ursula Keller
Ultrafast Laser Physics
Christian Rüegg
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Giacomo Scalari
Quantum Optoelectronics
Wenchao Xu
Experimental Quantum Engineering
Head of LFKP: Werner Wegscheider
Deputy: Andreas Wallraff
Research groups
Gabriel Aeppli
Quantum Technologies
Yiwen Chu
Hybrid Quantum Systems
Christian Degen
Spin Physics
Leonardo Degiorgi
Optical Spectroscopy
Klaus Ensslin
Nanophysics
Thomas Ihn
Nanophysics
Daniela Rupp
Nanostructures and Ultrafast X-ray Science
Andreas Vaterlaus
Solid-state Dynamics and Education
Andreas Wallraff
Quantum Devices
Werner Wegscheider
Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Materials
Andrey Zheludev
Neutron Scattering and Magnetism
Head of ITP: Leonardo Senatore
Deputy: Renato Renner
Research groups
Charalampos Anastasiou
Particle Physics Phenomenology
Niklas Beisert
Quantum Field Theory and Strings
Juan Carrasquilla Alvarez
Computational Physics
Nicolò Defenu
Quantum Physics
Eugene Demler
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Matthias Gaberdiel
Quantum Field Theory and Strings
Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder
Theoretical Particle Physics
Vadim Geshkenbein
Quantum Condensed and Coherent Systems
Gian Michele Graf
Mathematical Physics
Sebastian Huber
Condensed Matter Theory and Metamaterials
Marina Krstic Marinkovic
High Performance Computational Physics
Renato Renner
Quantum Information Theory
Thomas Schulthess
Computational Material Science
Leonardo Senatore
Theoretical Cosmology
Manfred Sigrist
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Antony Lomax
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