About the Department of Physics
Pakistan’s leading center for fundamental and applied physical sciences since 1967.
A Premier Center of Physics Education
The Department of Physics was established in 1967 at Quaid-i-Azam University (then University of Islamabad) under the vision of eminent physicists, including Nobel Laureate Prof. Abdus Salam and founding Chairman Prof. Riazuddin.
Over the past five decades, the department has grown into Pakistan’s top physics institution, producing internationally acclaimed theoretical particle physicists, condensed matter scientists, quantum opticians, and laser specialists.
🔭 Department Vision
Since its inception (1966), the physics department has laid a strong emphasis on providing its students, both graduate and post graduate, with an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of Physics over a broad spectrum.
We believe that specializations should only be introduced after having developed a sound base at BS, M.Sc. and M.Phil. levels respectively. The department feels that narrow specialization at an early stage does not lead to graduates with the potential to develop into creative scientists or as effective technologists. The department lays great emphasis on the quality and mode of teaching and research supervision. As such, the department ensures that its tests and examinations are truly a measure of its students’ analytical and critical abilities. M.Phil. viva and Ph.D. seminars are also conducted with a view to determining the students' command over a broader area of physics principles.
🎯 Objectives & Goals
Our goal is to produce graduates who are able to function in an outstanding manner—whether as academics in universities, researchers in R&D organizations, technical experts for government or private sectors, or as teachers in colleges or high schools. In whatever capacity they serve, they are expected to carry with them the knowledge base as well as the critical and analytical abilities developed by our program.
To ensure that our PhD graduates have a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of Physics, the department requires all PhD students to clear the international Graduate Record Examination (GRE) in Physics. Academic responsibility and accountability of the faculty is taken very seriously in the form of student evaluation reports and course reports submitted by the faculty.