The PhD degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics is offered through the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics. With a nominal finishing time of five years, the direct-entry PhD programme focuses on training students to do first-class research. Entry into a four-year PhD track with a prior MSc is also possible.
The University of Toronto’s David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics is actively engaged in a wide range of observational and theoretical research on Solar System dynamics, stars, stellar systems, the interstellar medium, the Milky Way Galaxy, galaxies, quasars, clusters of galaxies, cosmology, and problems in General Relativity. The department has close ties with the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics which further enhance the opportunities for our students to interact with leading researchers.
For complete information: visit the Graduate Program page on the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics website.
Former PhD candidate Elliot Meyer working on a collimator, a component in the Wide Integral-Field Infrared Spectrograph (WIFIS). Credit: Dunlap Institute.
Former graduate student Etsuko Mieda (r.) testing a grating for the OSIRIS spectrograph. Credit: Dunlap Institute.