University of Turku

Master's Degree Programme in Exact Sciences: Materials Physics

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Improving lives by making stuff!

In the Master's Degree Programme in Exact Sciences: Materials Physics specialisation track, you will become an expert in the research and development of new materials in biomedical or electronic applications.

The studies of Materials Physics and Materials Chemistry give you an ability to understand and to develop the properties of materials from molecules and nanoparticles via metals and magnetic and semiconducting compounds for pharmaceutical and biomaterial applications. You will work in an active research group together with other students, post-docs and senior researchers on solving problems in e.g. energy efficiency and drug delivery. In addition to the theoretical basis of materials physics, you will also learn to use state-of-the-art research equipment with hands-on courses.

After graduation, you will be familiar with the current methodologies, research equipment and modern numerical methods needed to model properties of materials used in research and technology. You will be able to use the diverse set of experimental, theoretical and numerical techniques to produce and analyse new physical projects.

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Academic Excellence & Experience

The aim of the Master’s education is to support you to become an independent expert who can evaluate information critically, plan and execute research projects to find new knowledge, and solve scientific and technological problems independently and as part of a group.

At the University of Turku, the research and teaching of materials physics have two focal areas: bio- and electronic materials. In biomaterials, you can study e.g. pharmaceutical vectors, nanoporous materials in pharmaceutics and dissociation of DNA molecules under radiation. In electronics materials, possible topics include semiconducting, magnetic and superconducting materials, spintronics and nanocontacts. You will study the physical basis of current and future electronics.

Specialisation Tracks

Materials Physics is one of the six specialisation tracks of the Master’s Degree Programme in Exact Sciences. Other tracks of the programme are:

• Astronomy and Space Physics,
• Chemistry of Drug Development,
• Materials Chemistry,
• Mathematics and Statistics,
• and Theoretical Chemistry.