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We’d love to have you here!

The University of Tennessee enjoys a vibrant and diverse physics program driven by an engaged faculty eager to develop the next generation of scientists.

• We’re actively pushing the research frontier of quantum materials by joint efforts in synthesis, computation, and a broad array of experimental probes through the IAMM Quantum Center.
• We played a key role in winning an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (CAMM) to discover, design, and develop materials that will transform science and industry.
• Our physicists put our state on the periodic table with Tennessine.
• We explore multi-messenger astronomy and explosive stellar events, having secured a $3.25M grant to build a hub for these studies.
• We search for new physics at CERN and describe the properties of nuclei, neutrons, and neutrinos.
• We investigate the origins and possibilities of superconductivity and other condensed matter phenomena with new models and novel materials.
• With lab-on-a-chip devices and pattern formation, we merge physics and biology at the cellular level.
• We’re building an interdisciplinary approach to lead transformative research on quantum materials and devices, information science, and artificial intelligence—including a $3M project using AI to model collective phenomena in quantum materials and another project to build a quantum internet testbed.