Physics Department, University of Fribourg

The Department of Physics of Fribourg University presently houses five experimental and three theoretical research groups. The physicists on staff do research in the domains of Atomic Physics (Laser Spectroscopy, X-ray Spectroscopy, Theory of Cold Atoms), Soft Matter and Photonics, Solid State Physics (Magnetism & Superconductivity, Electron Spectroscopy, Condensed Matter Theory), and also in the domain of Theoretical Interdisciplinary Physics.

We have students at both Master and Bachelor level, as well as Doctoral students working within the research groups. In addition, we provide lectures and labs for students from the other departments of the Science Faculty. Courses at the bachelor level are given in either of the two official languages, French or German. Masters courses, and in particular colloquia and research seminars, are given in English.  At the postgraduate level we offer a coordinated teaching program in collaboration with the physics departments at other Swiss universities.

Our groups maintain a very active collaborative research program, for example, with the Adolphe Merkle Institut for Nanosciences (AMI), within the Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials (FriMat) and the Light and Matter project (LiMAT) or with the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) from the University of Bern. We also collaborate with several national and international research institutes such as PSI in Villigen and ILL and ESRF in Grenoble, and in several FP7 projects (7th Framework Programme of the European Commission for Future and Emerging Technologies).