The Department of Physics has various facilities used for research, education, and public engagement. You can find more details about some of these by following the links in the menu.
Cruickshank Botanic Garden Observatory
The Cruickshank Botanic Garden Observatory is a new astronomical observatory planned to be built at the Cruickshank Botanic Garden during 2025, subject to planning consent.
We have recently acquired a new professional level StellaLyra 16"-aperture telescope system to extend and enhance the University’s teaching and research in astrophysics.
The Cromwell Tower Observatory is the University's historic observatory, part of King's College quadrangle.
It was first used as an observatory in 1826. Until the early 2000s it was an active astronomical and meteorological observatory, but has not been in use since that time.
The microfluidics laboratory designs and fabricates organ-on-chip devices for bio-medical research. Our chips offer unprecedented experimental possibilities and solutions in areas ranging from neuroscience, myocardial infarction and cancer to thrombosis. We perform photolithography, soft lithography and mathematical modelling.
Each year we offer undergraduate projects, giving the students the opportunity of hands-on experience with this state of the art technology.
In the images to the right, A shows the laboratory workbench, and B-E show examples of manufactured chips.
