The department of Physics at the University of Waterloo has 35 faculty members and numerous postdocs. It runs a joint graduate program with the University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University, the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute, with more than 200graduate students. The main research themes are Astronomy, Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics, Gravitation, and Quantum Information.

Our faculty are consistently recognized for their outstanding work in research and teaching with many awards, including Distinguished Teaching Awards, Herzberg Medals, Premiers Research Excellence Awards, Sloan Fellowships, and Cottrel Scholars Awards. This tradition of excellence persists throughout the entire Faculty of Science at Waterloo, which has the highest research funding per professor of any faculty of science in Canada.

Please see the department homepage for details.

More information about research at the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute is available here.

• Jonathan Baugh (cross-appointed from Chemistry)
• Joseph Emerson (cross-appointed from Applied Math)
• Thomas Jennewein
• Raymond Laflamme
• Adrian Lupascu
• Norbert Lütkenhaus
• Michele Mosca (cross-appointed from Combinatorics and Optimization)
• Kevin Resch
• Frank Wilhelm

• Achim Kempf (cross-appointed from Applied Math)
• David Kribs (cross-appointed from Math, University of Guelph)
• Jan Kycia
• Robert Mann
• James Martin
• Bill Power (cross-appointed from Chemistry)

• David Kribs
• Roger Melko
• Shohini Ghose (adjunct from Department of Physics and Computer Science, Wilfrid Laurier)
• Lucien Hardy (adjunct from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Research)
• Rob Spekkens (adjunct from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Research)

Applications to Physics should be addressed to the Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute.