Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST)
(Faculty: Chakrabarti, Cohen, Cook, Groppi, Laycock)
Development of rocket-based instruments to study the structure of galaxies and interstellar media; investigation of atmospheres and environments of planets and exoplanets; neutron stars and black holes in X-ray binaries, pulsars, multi-wavelength astronomy, time-domain astrophysics.
LoCSST website
Research Opportunities at LoCSST
Biophotonics
Advanced Biophotonics Laboratory
(Faculty: Yaroslavsky)
Development of optical technologies for biological and medical applications, as well as experimental and analytical methods for biological tissue characterization.
Advanced Biophotonics Laboratory website
Medical Physics
Medical Physics Options
(Faculty: Guthier, Sajo)
Medical imaging, diagnostics and therapeutics with nanoparticles, fundamental interactions between radiation and biological matter, aerosol transport.
Medical Physics website
Multiscale Electromagnetics and Photonics
Multiscale Electromagnetics Group
(Faculty: Podolskiy, Guo)
Development of computational and analytical methods to understand optical properties of nanocomposites, metamaterials, plasmonic nano- and microstructures, and micro-resonators. Design and fabrication technology for innovative semiconductor-based photonic and nanoelectronic device technologies.
Multiscale Electromagnetics Group website
Nanoscience and Technology
Nanoscience and Technology Lab
(Faculty: Shen)
Investigation of properties of nanoscience materials and mesoscopic systems for potential applications with an intense femtosecond pulsed laser system and instruments for sample fabrication and measurements.
Nanoscience and Technology Lab website
Nuclear Applications and Nuclear Data
Nuclear Applications and Nuclear Data (NAaND) Group
(Faculty: Jandel)
Nuclear data measurements and calculations relevant to astrophysics, nuclear safety, security, energy, proliferation and forensics.
Nuclear Applications and Nuclear Data (NAaND) Group website
Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics
Experimental Nuclear Physics Group
(Faculty: Bender, Chowdhury, Rogers)
Structure and decay of nuclei far from stability; experiments at national (and international) accelerator facilities; advanced detector development on campus (Radiation Laboratory: 1MW reactor and 5MV Van de Graaff accelerator) with applications in nuclear energy, medical physics and materials science.
Experimental Nuclear Physics Group website
Research at the UMass Lowell Radiation (RAD) Lab
Optics and Advanced Materials
Center for Advanced Materials (CAM)
(Faculty: Kumar)
Integrated optics, optical spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, dielectric behavior of materials, electronic transport phenomena in solids, electronic and optical phenomena in polymeric and biomolecular systems, nanoscale materials, novel polymeric materials.
Center for Advanced Materials website
Quantum Information
(Faculty: Desgranges, Ribeiro)
Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Detection, Mesoscopic Physics.
Radiological Health Physics
(Faculty: Tries)
Radiation dosimetry, medical isotopes, reactor health physics, radiation mitigating drugs.
Space Science
UMass Lowell Space Science Lab
(Faculty: Galkin)
Observation, theoretical modeling, and numerical simulation of the plasma processes in the space weather and solar system.
UMass Lowell Space Science Lab website
Submillimeter-Wave Technology
Submillimeter-Wave Technology (STL) Laboratory
(Faculty: DeMartinis, Goyette)
Development of terahertz transmitter and receiver technologies, design and characterization of material dielectric properties with microwave through IR spectrometers, CO2 and far-IR laser magneto-spectroscopy, and sub-millimeter wave compact ranges for electromagnetic scattering studies.
Submillimeter-Wave Technology Laboratory website
Theoretical Cosmology
(Faculty: Agarwal)
Inflation, Dark energy, Quantum field theory in curved spacetime, Large-scale structure, Cosmic microwave background.