The research strength of the department is mainly focused on five broad research themes supported by the senior academic staff. The areas of postgraduate level research that is currently taking place are given in the following table
Atmospheric Physics
- Climate Change
- Climate modeling
- Extreme weather events
Computational Biophysics
- Molecular Dynamics
Computational Physics
- Modeling natural systems
- Image processing
- Machine vision
- Autonomous robot navigation
- Spin glasses and disordered systems
- Atomistic modeling and simulations (Generalized-ensemble Monte Carlo, Molecular dynamics, Spin dynamics)
- Adiabatic quantum computation
- Physics-inspired solvers for discrete optimization
Instrumentation Physics
- Application of technology
- Reconfigurable Computing
- Embedded Systems
- Passive LIDAR
- Optical Instrumentation
- Flexible Electronics
Lightning Physics
- Lightning Generated Electric Fields
- Acoustics (Thunder Signatures)
- Lightning protection
Robotics
- Dynamic stability
Spectroscopy and Imaging
- FISH Imaging
- Multispectral Imaging
- Optical Spectroscopy
- Raman Spectroscopy
- Passive LIDAR