Nestled in idyllic Amherst, Massachusetts, the campus is consistently ranked among the top public research universities in the nation, and offers a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers.

Our faculty lead a breadth of outstanding research programs along experimental and theoretical avenues in Condensed Matter, Biophysics, Nuclear & Particle Physics, Gravitation, and Fundamental Interactions. Three active centres within the department foster collaborative research in these fields - the Amherst Center for Fundamental Interactions (ACFI), the Massachusetts Center for Autonomous Materials (MassCAM), and the Center for Biophysics.

A new initiative in Precision Many-body Physics has also recently been launched. A new Physical Sciences Building with state-of-the-art laboratory spaces houses many of our experimental groups in quantum condensed matter, nuclear and particle physics.