PPGFÍSICA - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física

About the Program

Founded in 1968 and named “Instituto de Física”, the Department of Physics of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil, has a Master’s of Science program initiated in 1973 and a Doctor of Science program initiated in 1975. These degrees are similar to the European and US Master’s and PhD, respectively. To guarantee an international standard for its graduates, the Department of Physics has been committed, since the creation of these programs, to both intensive research activities and teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels. Thus, along the past 40 years since the beginning of the Doctorate program, a large number of alumni have joined major Brazilian universities and foreign institutions as faculty and research scientists. Our Graduate Program (Master and PhD degrees) is qualified at level 7 (out of 7) by the Brazilian Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), and is consistently ranked as one of Brazil’s top institutions. Currently it has 39 faculty members and 2 admin staff.

Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza
Departamento de Física

Av. Prof. Luiz Freire, s/n, Cidade Universitária 50740-540 Recife - PE

(81) 2126.7640 / (81) 2126.8449