Home - Dipartimento di Fisica

One of the 3 km-long Advanced Virgo tunnels nearby Pisa, where laser light travels. Credits: EGO/Virgo

A transverse view of the ATLAS detector in open configuration, with the eight toroid magnets surrounding the calorimeter

Examples of Feynman diagrams for Higgs boson production and decay. Nature 607, 52 (2022)

Kinetic simulation of magnetized plasma turbulence

Optomechanical set-up with laser beams exciting, probing, and controlling microcavities

Scheme of laser-cooled trapped ions subject to an optical lattice potential. Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 013031 (2021)

Quantum materials: superimposed graphene sheets forming a Moiré pattern. Courtesy: L. Cavicchi

M74 spiral galaxy imaged by Hubble (left), JWST (right), and with combined acquisitions (center). Credits: Esa/Nasa

Basic principles like unitarity and crossing symmetry, combined with the formalism of conformal field theories, can be used to precisely determine interesting observables in critical phenomena, such as the Ising model in 3D

CT, PET, and co-registered PET/CT imaging of glucose uptake in rat brain. EJNMMI Phys 9, 10 (2022)

Dipartimento di Eccellenza

Welcome

This is the website of the Department of Physics ‘Enrico Fermi’ of the University of Pisa, an internationally recognized center for scientific research and advanced education in Physics and in its interdisciplinary applications. Broad and intense teaching activities are performed for about 1000 undergraduate students, and 60 PhD students and postgraduate specializing students.

At the top places of the national ANVUR ranking 2023-2027, the Department of Physics of the University of Pisa got the highest score for its research (100/100) as well as for its development program (30/30).

Events

Event of 18 October 2023

INSIGHT: Medical Physics Workshop dedicated to Radiotherapy

The first INSIGHTS workshop – INnovative Systems In radiation therapy: breakthrouGHs novel detectors, Treatments and AI techniqueS – will take…

View all events…

News

Published on 28 July 2023

Prof. Luca Baldini featured in NASA blog

In the post ‘Taking Full Measure of the Sky’, the NASA blog reports on the research and development of X-ray…

Published on 28 July 2023

19 PRIN projects funded at the Department of Physics

19 projects submitted by professors and researchers of the Department of Physics of the University of Pisa have been funded…

Published on 13 June 2023

IXPE summer school

The ‘Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Summer School’ will take place in Pisa, Italy, on September 11-15, 2023. Deadline for…

Published on 13 June 2023

Call for applications for the admission to the Doctoral programme in Space Science and Technology

The Department of Physics offers a scholarship for the 39th cycle of the National Doctoral programme in “Space Science and…

Read all the news…