The Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto - FCUP - offers several courses in the areas of Science, Technologies, and Enginneering. The research and teaching fields include besides High Energy Physics also areas of applied technologies and enginneering in Sensors, Photonics, Nano-technologies and Materials Science.

The research groups of the Physics Department of FCUP include members connected to the centers:

CFP - Centro de Física do Porto

IFUMUP - Instituto de Física dos Materiais da Universidade do Porto

INESC - Porto - Unidade de Opto-electrónica e Sistemas Electrónicos