Department of Physics

Discover the Department of Physics, home to high-quality research activity and outstanding teaching. Our research spans the breadth of modern physics and is supported by high-quality facilities.

Our courses

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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate taught
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Postgraduate research
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Continued professional development

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Stephen Sweeney
Professor of Physics, Head of Department of Physics

Prof Stephen Sweeney

Biography

Professor Stephen Sweeney obtained a BSc in Applied Physics and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) from the University of Bath and a PhD in Semiconductor Laser Physics from the University of Surrey. Following his PhD and postdoctoral positions at Surrey, he joined Marconi Optical Components as a Scientist, becoming Lead Scienti...

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Research areas

Discover more about the leading research that we undertake in the Department of Physics.

Astrophysics Research Group
Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Physics
Photonics and Quantum Sciences
The Soft Matter Group

Events

Physics experiment

Mon 09 Jul

Exhibition

Schools Physicist of the Year

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Tue 18 Dec - Fri 21 Dec

Workshop

Nuclear theory for nuclear experiments

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Mon 02 Sep - Fri 06 Sep

Conference

24th European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (EFB24)

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News

04.07.18

The Gaia Sausage: The major collision that changed the Milky Way galaxy

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21.06.18

Old star clusters could have been the birthplace of supermassive stars, claims new Surrey study

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29.05.18

Meet the academic: Professor Jim Al-Khalili

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Department of Physics
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
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