For some of these career options, post-graduation work experience will be required. Some careers may require additional qualifications.
| Careers |
Description |
Areas of Study |
Profiles |
| Accelerator physicist |
Experimental and theoretical work in synchrotron technology and particle physics; involving beamline manipulation, storage and experimentation. |
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Computer Science
|
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| Biomaterials |
New materials are
continually being developed
for implants, prostheses and
biomolecular devices.
|
- Materials science
- Chemistry
- Physiology
|
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| Condensed matter physicist |
The latest
analytical and
diagnostic techniques
are applied to a wide range
of materials such as thin film
semiconductors, polymers,
glasses and superconductors.
|
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Chemistry
|
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| Measurement, control, instrumentation, imaging |
Physicists are
often employed in
specialist areas which
utilise electronic
instrumentation, for example
in the National Standards
Laboratories, commercial and
industrial situations. A wide
range of detection and imaging
methods have been developed by
physicists, e.g. airborne coastal
water surveying using lasers.
|
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Computer science
|
|
| Materials testing and development |
Work on
research and in
commercial applications.
Materials scientists have
expertise in the selection
and testing of materials for
wide-ranging applications
including machinery, buildings,
and the environment.
|
- Materials science
- Physics
- Chemistry
|
|
| Medical physicist |
Medical
physicists require an
understanding of the
applications of physics
in medicine, including
radiation and its effects, and
experience with
instrumentation and imaging
software.
|
- Computer science
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Physiology
- Anatomy
- Mathematics
|
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| New materials research and manufacturing |
In areas such as
ceramics and
metallurgy, materials
scientists work in the
manufacture, testing and
development of new materials
(optical fibres, superconductors)
as well as conventional glasses,
polymers, ceramics and metals.
|
- Materials science
- Physics
- Chemistry
|
|
| Research/Theoretical physicist |
Combine
understanding of
physical systems with
problem solving skills.
Areas include biophysics,
quantum and condensed
matter physics, cosmology,
financial modelling.
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| Telecommunications and optical systems |
Photonics,
Lasers Physicists in
these rapidly developing
areas may work on
applications, improvements
and design of new materials
and devices.
|
- Telecommunications
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Materials science
- Chemistry
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