The Department prides itself on providing its students with cutting-edge, world class research opportunities in a collegial environment.
Students have access to a wide range of state-of-the-art equipment, including materials growth and characterization facilities, high power computer clusters, atmospheric observational facilities and medical imaging facilities.
Our friendly faculty and staff provide graduate students with an environment where ideas and research facilities are shared between groups. We offer physics, atmospheric science and graduate seminars with a wide variety of speakers to compliment the total learning experience at the school.
The Department offers exciting opportunities in four major areas of research of great importance in Canada; novel materials, atmospheric science, bio/medical physics and applied physics.
Please follow this link for a graduate pre-application form.
Many of our faculty are members of the Institute for Research in Materials (IRM) at Dal, providing students access to additional world-class equipment with additional opportunities for interdisciplinary research right on campus.
Further information about the research performed in our facility can be found on the Research and Faculty pages.
In addition to the research opportunities, the Atlantic region offers an exceptional standard of living. Click on the following links to learn more about Halifax and Nova Scotia.