School of Physics & Astronomy

The School occupies a modern building with well-equipped teaching and research laboratories. It has more than 35 members of academic staff, around 35 postdoctoral researchers and around 75 postgraduate students. We have typically 400 undergraduates on our degree programmes at any one time.

The School of Physics and Astronomy has a long and distinguished history dating back to the University's inception over 100 years ago.  In 1874, the Yorkshire College of Science (the forerunner to the University of Leeds, which was granted a royal charter in 1904) began teaching experimental physics.