UNB’s physics graduate program is a force to be reckoned with in the academic world. This nationally-accredited program has earned an outstanding reputation for its accomplishments in research. Students acquire an advanced physics understanding while developing an original research project in their preferred field of study.

Our award-winning faculty has magnetic personalities and the campus itself radiates a positive energy, full of students who are on the same wavelength. Graduates have lots of potential and go on to work in universities, government institutions, industry, schools, financial organizations and more. We typically have around 20-25 graduate students, with one-third of them MSc and the rest PhD students.

Our faculty also has collaborations within industries, including: NavCanada, SIL, Saskatoon, NovAtel, Green Imaging Technologies, Saudi Aramco, ConocoPhillips, Septentrio Navigation, Trimble Navigation, Raytheon, Rockwell-Collins, Pfizer, Suncor, Eni, Italy, COMDEV, Light Machinery, and KEO Scientific.

Research areas

• Infrared & Microwave Spectroscopy

• Magnetic Resonance

• Optical Laser Spectroscopy

• Space & Atmospheric Physics

• Space Plasma Theory

• Theoretical Atomic & Molecular Physics

• Theoretical Molecular Spectroscopy