About This Department

Department: School of Physics
Insitution: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  Dublin
Ireland
 

The School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin

The School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin has been awarded Institute of Physics Juno Practitioner and Athena SWAN Bronze Award status for taking action to address gender inequities across its student and staff body. It is committed to promoting better working practices for men and women. See https://www.tcd.ie/Physics/womeninphysics/. The School welcomes applications from all qualified applicants, and applications are particularly encouraged from traditionally under-represented groups in Physics.

The School of Physics (www.tcd.ie/physics) is the leading physics department in Ireland as well as being the largest and oldest. Its history stretches back to the appointment of its first professor in 1724. It is now characterized by its vibrant and dynamic teaching and research programme. It runs two undergraduate physics degree programmes (in Physics and Physics & Astrophysics) and two joint degrees with the Schools of Mathematics and Chemistry in Theoretical Physics and Nanoscience, respectively.

The School’s research programme is impressive with over 60 postdoctoral researchers and over 100 postgraduate research students working along with the 28 academics. These principal investigators raise considerable research funding from Irish, EU and international funding agencies. The areas of research in the School are:

The School was a leading player in the establishment of the Irish LOFAR consortium and the telescope, which was the first research grade telescope to be built and operated in Ireland for over a century, was commissioned in 2017. I-LOFAR is the twelfth international station to be built in Europe. It allows Irish astrophysical research to be integrated into one of the most sophisticated telescopes on the planet. I-LOFAR is located in the grounds of Birr Castle Gardens & Science Centre, Co. Offaly in Trinity College Dublin’s ‘Rosse Observatory’ which also houses an education centre.

I-LOFAR is run by a consortium of Irish astrophysicists, computer engineers and data scientists, representing Irish universities and institutes of technologies from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The consortium is led by Trinity College Dublin, with partners from University College Dublin, Dublin City University, Athlone Institute of Technology, the National University of Ireland Galway, University College Cork, the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Armagh Observatory.

Staff in the School of Physics have significant collaborations with the best international scientists and publish extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals.

The School of Physics is also one of the founding Schools of the CRANN Institute (www.tcd.ie/crann), Ireland premier Nanoscience Institute. CRANN provides access to a large suit of shared research infrastructure and runs large collaborative research programs at the interface between University research and Industry. CRANN is the host of the AMBER Centre (ambercentre.ie), Ireland’s Materials Science and Biotechnology Centre, and the School of Physics is a principal partner in MaREI, Ireland Research Center for Energy, Climate and Marine (https://www.marei.ie/)