The home of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, and the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hydron Collider (LHC), Europe is currently leading the world in cutting edge Physics research. Its universities are equally impressive and according to the QS World University Rankings 2016 it is home to three of the world’s Top 10 Universities for this subject - the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, ETH Zurich. Many European Universities and Higher Education Institutions offer high level academic tuition in this subject and EHEVF 2016 India and South Asia participant Politecnico di Milano in Italy is also ranked amongst the QS Top 100. Its Department of Physics offers post-graduate study in engineering Physics and has 5 research lines which include solid state lasers and photonic devices, Epitaxial growth and nanostructure fabrication, and Electronic, optical and magnetic properties of low-dimensional systems. Fellow participant Aalto University in is also well respected internationally and offers Masters Programmes in Physics and Advanced Materials and conducts research in applied physics. Its many research groups include Atomic Scale Physics, Fission and Radiation Physics, Fusion and Plasma Physics, and Molecular Materials.
