The Research School of Physics and Engineering at ANU, represents Australia's foremost university based research activity in this area, involving several hundred academics, graduate students and support staff. ANU hosts a wide array of major multi-million dollar experimental facilities many serving a national research role. The quality of research is reflected by a strong involvement in four ARC centres of excellence, a CRC and our hosting of three ARC research networks.

Centre for Learning and Teaching in the Physical Sciences

The Centre for Learning and Teaching in the Physical Sciences is responsible for running both the undergraduate and graduate degrees within the Research School of Physics and Engineering. All the academics in the centre are members the school's research departments working at the cutting edge of physics research in this country

Research Departments

The school is divided up into research departments based around a common research theme.

• Department of Applied Mathematics
• Atomic & Molecular Physics Laboratories
• Department of Electronic Materials Engineering
• Laser Physics Centre
• Nonlinear Physics Centre
• Department of Nuclear Physics
• Plasma Research Laboratory
• Department of Quantum Science
• Department of Theoretical Physics

Centres and Research Networks

Research Centres (located at the school)

Many scientists at the School are involved in national and international collaborative work, and some are members of major research centres that span several host institutions.

• ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics (ACQAO)
• ARC Centre of Excellence, Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies (CAMS)
• The Centre for Complex Systems (CCS)
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)

ARC Networks (hosted by the school)

• Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network (ARCNN)
• Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials (ARNAM)
• ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network (COSNet)