The Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science is one of the seventeen faculties of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. The Department of Physics at the AGH University was established in 1919, alongside the founding of the university itself; its first head was Professor Dr. Jan Stock. His successors included Professor Dr. Mieczysław Jeżewski, who, along with his colleagues, advanced research on the properties of dielectrics, and Professor Dr. Marian Mięsowicz, who in 1934 discovered the viscosity anisotropy of liquid crystals. In 1962, the first Institute of Nuclear Technology within higher education was established, later renamed in 1967 to the Interdepartmental Institute of Physics and Nuclear Technology at AGH. In 1991, by the decision of the AGH Senate, the Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques was created, which, to meet educational needs, changed its name in 2004 to the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science.
The Faculty conducts scientific research at the highest global level, primarily in the field of condensed matter physics and particle physics. This is evidenced, for example, by the number and quality of publications—each year, the Faculty’s staff publishes around 150 articles in renowned international scientific journals. Advanced basic and applied research is also conducted in the fields of nuclear physics and technology, electronics, environmental physics, and medical physics. A cornerstone of the Faculty's scientific development strategy is the ongoing enhancement of international collaboration—currently, most scientific activities are conducted through intensive contacts with foreign research centers, based on international research programs such as the European Union's framework programs. The Faculty is committed to developing its academic staff, which currently includes 40 independent researchers, among them 25 full professors.
The Faculty is the leader of the Marian Smoluchowski Kraków Scientific Consortium, which was awarded the prestigious status of a National Leading Research Center in 2012.
Since 2013, the Faculty has held the highest scientific category: A+, making it the only faculty at AGH, the only Faculty of Physics at technical universities in the country, and one of three Faculties of Physics in Poland to achieve this distinction.
The Faculty also won the 2014 AGH Faculty evaluation competition, assessed by criteria used for universities by Perspektywy.
The photo depicts buildings D10 and D7
