Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics

The Center includes three original theory groups: Particle Physics, Gravitation, and Quarks, Hadrons and Nuclei.

Our Faculty

The Center presently consists of 12 full-time faculty members in the Department of Physics, working on the wide range of theoretical problems related to the fundamental aspects of physics. Other members include Professor Emeriti, postdocs, graduate students, and visitors.

UMD Physicist Zohreh Davoudi Awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Zohreh Davoudi, an associate professor of physics at the University of Maryland and Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award, which was established in 1996 to recognize young...

Chacko Elected APS Fellow

Professor Zackaria Chacko has been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society. APS Fellowship recognizes excellence in physics and exceptional service to the physics community. Chacko, who is a member of the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP), was...

Rabindra Mohapatra interviewed by New Scientist Magazine

Rabindra Mohapatra at the University of Maryland says the idea of mirror stars and a dark universe is “plausible”. However, if mirror stars ever existed, they would have had shorter lifetimes than regular stars, so they might not have persisted up to now. “The density...

Raman Sundrum interviewed by Quanta Magazine on Gravitational Wave Cosmology

Raman Sundrum interviewed by Quanta Magazine on Gravitational Wave Cosmology https://www.quantamagazine.org/hopes-of-big-bang-discoveries-ride-on-a-future-spacecraft-20240417/

MCFP Research on the Matter/Dark Matter mystery covered in Live Science

MCFP Research on the Matter/Dark Matter mystery covered in Live Science, a website dedicated to popular science https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/there-may-be-a-dark-mirror-universe-within-ours-where-atoms-failed-to-form-new-study-suggests...