About the Department of Physics:

In the fall of 2019, in line with the National Scientific Development Scheme as well as the development of universities, on the one hand, and the need to establish a physics department next to the chemistry department in order to establish a faculty of science on the other hand, and finally transform the Zanjan higher education complex into Zanjan University, the department was established as the fifth Physics department in the northwest of the country and became the 20th department in the country. In the fall of 1991, the first group of 25 students were admitted through the National Comprehensive Entrance Exam. This credit of this achievement is attributed to Dr. Mohsen Sarafi (then the Assistant Professor of Physics), Yousuf Ali Abedini (then the physics instructor), Farz Olah Mirzapour (then the mathematics instructor) and Mr. Habib ollah Zolfkhani (then the Telecommunications instructor) and two other Physics experts (Ms. Akram Satei and Ms. Mino Noor) the university officials.

From the very beginning of its establishment, the department played an effective role at the provincial level through establishing relations with the Ministry of Education in the province, teacher training, governorate, meteorology, environment and other organizations. In addition, the department was able to attract new lecturers (Dr. Daroneh, Vesali, Najari and Payami) to the group, and started to cooperate with the Iranian Physics Association and prominent people in the field of Observational Astronomy, including Mr. Qomrinejad, one of the prominent  astronomers and astrophotographers.

With the establishment of Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) in 1371 (1992) and the admission of MA students, a new chapter began in the development of the department. Supported by the university, Dr. Sa’d-ullah Nasiri Qeydari, one of the first Physics graduates of the PhD program in Iran, was transferred to the group under the supervision of Prof. Sobooti from Shiraz University, and this coincided with the recruitment of new faculty members (Dr. Khademi, Khosrow Hasani, Tayeb Kakavand) which contributed significantly to the development of the department.

 Meanwhile, the Bachelor’s program of Physics was launched at the department. In the second half of the 90s, two of the first graduates of Zanjan Graduate University of Basic Sciences, namely Dr. Qanbari and Dr. Davoudi, also one of the graduates of London College , Dr. Amir Hossein Saeed, were recruited by the department. Meanwhile, the Physics Department began offering Master's program as the second department at the university, which was in 2000. In Addition, the department granted scholarships to a number of PhD students (Dr. Fooladvand, Dr. Eshraqi and Dr. Sepehri Javan) studying at domestic universities, such as Sharif university or in foreign countries like Russia, Canada, etc. .

 Also, this very period proved another chapter towards the department development. Supported by  the university authorities, a large number of the first graduates of the PhD program of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) including Dr. Mahmoudi, Dr. Ahmed Doroudi, Dr. Fardin Kheir Andish, Dr. Ali Najafi and Dr. Saeed Mahdavi Far were recruited.. Now the group had the potential for bigger projects; and the first step was holding a remarkable Iranian Physics Conference in 2011 at Zanjan university.This conference, called the Sobouti Conference, was approved by the Iranian Physics Associationand held on the occasion of Dr. Sobouti's 70th birthday. One of many gains of this conference was the financial support provided by the Planning and Budget Organization of Zanjan for the construction of the Observatory Center of the University of Zanjan.

The second step was to launch a PhD course in physics as the first department at the University of Zanjan, which began in 2005 with the permission of the Ministry of Sciences. In the late 2000s, another stage in the development of the group was to recruit or transfer new colleagues from graduates of Iranian universities--Dr. Hossein Safari, Dr. Maleki, Dr. Mojtabi Nasiri Zarandi, Dr. Ramin Mohammadkhani, Dr. Nazila As’adi, Dr. Amir Masoumi and Dr. Ali Bayat, all from Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Dr. Reza Rasouli and Dr. Shirsavar from Sharif University, Dr. Balbasi from Zanjan University, Dr. Mohsen Bigdeli from Shiraz University and Dr. Hamzavi from Shahrood University of Technology)–and foreign universities (Dr. Bazargan from America, Dr. Neda Dadashi from Max Planck, Germany.

 Although recruitment in the second half of the 2010s was less frequent, the group was able to add two faculty members, namely Dr. Yamani from Germany and Dr. Marzieh Rahmat from Tehran University) to its members. In fact, the group has recruited 36 faculty members in its thirty-one years of establishment, and according to the records, the number of faculty members has reached 30 people at some points in time (late 80s). However, in the recent years, due to the retirement and transferance of some colleagues, there are currently 24 faculty members (5 professors, 7 associate professors, and 12 assistant professors) in the physics department, while teaching at three undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels in most physics’ disciplines. They are engaged in research projects with the cooperation of organizations outside the university. In terms of scientific articles, they are among the top groups of the university, and the position of the physics department is also very good among the physics departments of the country.

The strength of the group, in addition to excellent educational and research work, is cooperation with universities and institutions inside and outside the country, especially the variety of research topics of colleagues in the following different trends:

- Condensed matter physics including subjects: soft dense matter, statistical mechanics, medical physics, Biophysics, fluids, superconductivity and new energies

- nanophysics: nanostructure and nanophotonics including nanotechnology, simulation of nanostructures, solar cells, nano layers, solar cells, bio-nanophysics and electrophotonics.

- Astronomy and astrophysics, including: earth physics, atmospheric physics and meteorology, climate and environment, solar physics, stellar physics and fluctuations of celestial bodies, cosmology and neutron stars

- Atomic and molecular physics: theoretical optics, including quantum optics, ultra-cold atoms, and experimental optics including comparative optics and design of optical devices with applications in industry and medicine, design of astronomical devices, lidar and atmospheric and dust studies.

-Nuclear physics, including nuclear models, applied nuclear physics, fundamental particles, nuclear astrophysics and heavy objects

- Statistical mechanics and complex systems including physics studies of economy, population, traffic, climate and other natural phenomena.

These activities are carried out in the following research laboratories in addition to physics laboratories 1, 2, 3, 4, optics, electronics and workshops:

Advanced Physics Laboratory, Advanced Optics Laboratory, Advanced Solid-State Laboratory, Advanced Nano Laboratory, Bio Nanophysics Research Laboratory, Quantum Optics Computational Laboratory, Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Complex Fluids and Meteorology Laboratory, Biophysics Computational Laboratory, Acoustic and New Energy Research Laboratory, Computational astronomy laboratory and observatory.

 The fields of this Department in Master's and Doctoral degrees are as follows:

Master's course:

The physics of optics and lasers

Physics, Condensed Matter Physics

Physics, statistical physics and complex systems

Physics, astronomy and astrophysics

Physics of nuclear physics

Photonics - physics trend

Nanophysics

gravity

Cosmology

PhD course:

The physics of optics and lasers

Physics, Condensed Matter Physics

Physics, astronomy and astrophysics

Nanophysics

Nano photonics

Nano photonics