The Institute

The Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA) is part of the Physics Department at ETH Zurich (D-PHYS). It is located on the Hönggerberg campus (buildings HPK and HIT), approx. a 15 minutes bus ride away from downtown Zurich.  The institute is made up of a staff counting about 200, organized into 11 research groups, which cover a wide range of topics including: high-energy interactions between fundamental particles, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, precision particle physics experiments at low energies, ion beam physics, cosmology and structure formation, galaxy and black hole astrophysics and star and planet formation.