Courses include introductory physics, solid-state physics, statistical mechanics and dynamical systems in the School of Engineering. Research is carried out both in theoretical and in experimental physics in the fields of structural properties of materials (optical and transport properties of semiconductors, microscopic properties of liquids and amorphous substances, physical properties and applications of lasers), nuclear and subnuclear physics, and statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics and complex systems.

External collaborations:

• University of California at Berkeley, USA
• Ecole Normale Superieure-Lyon, France
• Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
• Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Head: Ruffo Stefano

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Bogani Franco	055 4796401	boganiunifi.it
Bruzzi Mara	055 4796449 - 4796350	mara.bruzziunifi.it
Cataliotti Francesco Saverio	055 4796338	fsclens.unifi.it
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