Physics Department

Along with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Chile, the Department of Physics (DFC) was born in 1965. It has been the cradle of some of the best scientists in our country. The focus of the work is based on physics development and the training of new researchers, either through masters and doctoral programs or postdoctoral positions.

Its location is in the Faculty of Sciences at Avda. Las Palmeras 3425, Ñuñoa, Santiago, in a building that houses a technical library, a Space and Astrophysics Plasmas Laboratory, and study areas, among others.

More than 1,500 physicists have graduated from its classrooms, guided by academics of the highest level, who constitute a scientific community that locates the DFC, and that is among the best physics departments in the country and as a national and international landmark.

To train physicists of excellence. Strengthen the existing research areas in Chile and create new ones, anticipating the country’s future requirements in institutional and national interest fields. The latter is compatible with the need to increase the number of scientists in Chile which is currently below the requests to support R&D processes that allow the country to continue growing economically and socially.

To be a national and international landmark as a Department of Physics, constituted by excellent researchers with the best undergraduate training and high-impact postgraduate degrees, including a large number of scholarship students.