Research topics

Here are the four major areas where one can find research proposals for a PhD thesis in Physics:  

• Experimental Physics of Matter 

  • Magnetization dynamics in thin films and nanostructures

  • Investigation of magnetization processes of bulk superconducting materials for the development of devices for shielding and production/optimization of magnetic fields 

  • Control of the properties of two-dimensional materials by electric field effect

  • Experimental investigation of the order parameter in unconventional superconductors  

  • Quantum technologies in the frame of quantum optics

  • Evaluation of the therapeutic and imaging properties of stimuli-activated semiconducting nanocrystals against cancer cells 

  • Memristors and Mechanical resonators

  • Materials and processes for micro & nano technologies

  • Modeling and experiments of elastic wave propagation in complex media and acoustic/elastic metamaterials

  • NanoPhotonics for Quantum Optics

• Theoretical Physics of Matter 

  • Microscopic theory and simulation of electronic quantum nanodevices

  • Disorder operators and topological orders in strongly correlated quantum matter

  • Quantum mixture formed by two bosonic components 

  • Numerical Monte Carlo simulation of strongly correlated electronic models

  • Out of equilibrium properties of quantum systems: investigation of topological materials 

  • Exploring the power of Entanglement for information processing: quantum information theory for quantum technologies

  • Interaction of mesoscopic quantum systems with gravity

• Physics of Complex Systems 

  • Non equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

  • Statistical physics of the living cell

• High Energy Physics

  • Supergravity and String Theory

  • Nuclear matter under extreme conditions and high energy astrophysics