Modern Astrophysics can only progress thanks to increasingly powerful and sophisticated instrumentation, whose technological development also has significant impacts on other fields and is generally a driver for the country’s economy. The Department and the Observatory are often involved, sometimes as leaders, in large projects for the construction of ground-based and space-based instruments: from the development of adaptive optics and the study of optical turbulence for large ground-based observatories, to space technologies for instruments that will be placed on satellites. Additionally, there is an experimental group of astrobiology, where conditions similar to those in space are recreated in the laboratory.

The Experimental and Technological Astrophysics pathway naturally fits within the Astrophysics curriculum, and the rules must be followed when preparing the study plan. Below are some recommendations for choosing core, supplementary/integrative, and elective astrophysical courses for this pathway.

For further information on research areas related to the Experimental and Observational Astrophysics pathway and for thesis requests, please refer to the following groups:

Astrobiology

Exoplanets – Ariel Mission

Solar Physics – Metis Coronagraph on Solar Orbiter

Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation