The Department of Physics at Concordia is positioned in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and provides one of the most convivial environments for study and research within a traditional university campus, the Loyola campus, with an emphasis on good student-faculty interaction.
Research activities are collaborative and organized in small groups. Students interact easily with their thesis supervisor and other faculty members and work on projects as research assistants.
Funding for research projects are received from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and provincial agencies such as the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT). Many of the department’s external research associations are based on relationships faculty members have developed with industry.
The theoretical and experimental research fields are supported by state-of-the-art facilities, some of them are rare in Canada or even in the world. Faculty members and research groups also use interdepartmental and interuniversity research laboratories and facilities, including
- Centre for NanoScience Research (CeNSR)
- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM)
- Interuniversity Centre for Subatomic Physics
- Montreal Heart Institute (MHI)
- School of Health