Research Centres

Research Groups


Advanced Materials, Nanomaterials & Technology

2D Materials
  • Graphene, disordered magnetic systems, strongly correlated systems (Antonio CASTRO-NETO)
  • Graphene: nanostructure, transistors, biomedical devices (Barbaros OZYILMAZ)
  • Light-matter interaction, excitons, charge transport, thin film growth (Goki EDA)
Surface Science
  • Surface science, STM, heterojunctions, nanomaterials (Andrew WEE)
  • Self-assembly, interface engineering (Chen WEI)
  • Surface & interface of semiconducting materials (TOK Eng Soon)
  • STM & STS, topological insulators, self-assembly (WANG Xuesen)
Oxides: Superconductivity, Oxide thin films, Magnetic materials
  • Heterostructure, superlattices & quantum wells (Ariando)
  • Correlated electron system, synchrotron-based characterisation (Andrivo RUSYDI)
  • Oxides, ferroelectrics, GMR materials (R MAHENDIRAN)
Nanostructures, Energy
    Organic Semiconductors: Organic electronic devices
    • Organic light-emitting diodes, transistors, solar cells (Peter HO)

    Ion Beam Science & Technology

    3D Polymeric structures, Biomedical physics, Materials imaging, High resolution RBS (spectrometry), Nuclear microscopy

    Biological & Soft Matter Physics

    Molecular motors, biomolecular self-assembly, biopolymer, mechanics and interaction of biomolecules
    • Nanopore DNA sequencing, nanofluidics, 2D materials (Slaven GARAJ)
    • Nanoscale dynamics; interfacial liquids; electron microscopy (Utkur MIRSAIDOV)
    • Motor protein biophysics, nanomachinery (WANG Zhisong)
    • Genome organization; protein folding; mechanics of biomolecules (YAN Jie)

    Theoretical & Computational Physics

    Condensed matter physics
    Nonlinear dynamics, Complex systems
    • Quantum dynamics & information, cold-atom systems, decoherence theory (GONG Jiangbin)
    • Complex networks, complexity science in urban resilience (LAI Choy Heng)
    • Discrete-event systems, parallel simulation (TAY Seng Chuan)
    Electromagnetics, Acoustics
    • Microwave materials, digital sound, psychoacoustics (Bernard TAN)
    • Atmosphere and ocean dynamics, image restoration, radar imaging, EM material (LIM Hock)
    Astrophysics, Cosmology (General relativity, quantum field theory, black holes, cosmological models)
    • General relativity & gravitation (Edward TEO)
    • Multi-particle phenomenology, neutrino physics, astronomy (Phil CHAN)
    String Theory

    Quantum Information Technologies

    Cold atoms & Molecules, Atom & Ion trapping
    Cryptography, Quantum entanglement & Information theory
    • Quantum entanglement, non-classical correlation and quantum computing (Dagomir KASZLIKOWSKI)
    • Quantum information, high energy physics, quantum field theory (OH Choo Hiap)
    • Bell nonlocality, theory of quantum devices (Valerio SCARANI)
    • Geometrical and algebraic methods in quantum systems (Kuldip SINGH)
    Quantum optics & Atom-photon interaction Quantum key distribution, entangled states between photons)