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The Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padua was established in 2012 as a result of the merger of the pre-existing Departments of Physics and Astronomy.
Today the DFA with more than 150 faculty members, more than 70 technical and administrative staff and about 180 doctoral students and post-docs, is one of the largest physics area departments in Europe.
DFA’s research covers all frontier areas of Fundamental and Applied Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, with both theoretical and experimental research.
It is the Department of reference for 3 undergraduate courses, 3 English-language master’s degree courses, two master’s degree courses, and three doctoral courses, for a total of about 1900 students.
DFA ranked first among large physics area departments in Italy in the first two research quality assessment exercises (VQR04-10, VQR11-14) and remains first among departments with more than 50 faculty in VQR15-19.
The DFA relies on well-established collaborations with Research Institutions that enable it to support projects and investments of common interest; in particular, the Padua section of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF-OAPD) and the Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL) of INFN.
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In recent years, the DFA has taken a central role in major research initiatives and projects on quantum technologies, coordinating or participating in various European projects, the Spoke on Quantum Computing of the National Center on HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing funded under the PNRR, participating in the Governance of the European Quantum Flagship (Science and Engineering board) and the coordination theme of the EU-FPA PASQUANS2 project for the development of European quantum simulators.
In addition, thanks to a major funding from the university through the World Class Research Infrastructure (WCRI) call, DFA will acquire an infrastructure suitable for the construction of an experimental quantum computing and simulation laboratory, where to develop the technology needed to build a quantum computer with trapped ions and have, in the next 5 years, a prototype available for basic and applied research.
DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA E ASTRONOMIA
“G. GALILEI”-
UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
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