Research Laboratories

The Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences boasts more than 85 research laboratories:

Department of Astronomy

• Laboratory of Millimeter and Submilimeter Waves
• Mini Radio Telescope Laboratory
• GOTO Telescope Laboratory 
• Mechanical Workshop

Department of Materials Science

• Laboratory of Spectroscopy and Thermal Analysis
• Nanoscale Materials Laboratory (LMN) 
• Molecular Materials Laboratory
• Metallography Laboratory
• Chemistry and Materials Modeling Laboratory
• Thin Film Laboratory
• Mechanical Properties Laboratory
• Synthesis and Polymer Laboratory (LabSyP)
• Thermomechanical Treatments Laboratory

Department of Computer Sciences

• Incident Response Team Computer Security at the University of Chile (CLCERT)
• Collaborative Applications Research Laboratory (CARL)
• Wednesday Algorithms Group (GMA)
• Laboratory of Computational Engineering, visualization, geometric modeling and image processing 
• Laboratory studies of Internet and Telecommunications NIC Chile (NICLABS)
• PleiadLaboratory /LaboratorioPleiad
• PRISMA Lab /Laboratorio PRISMA
• Social Media and Data Lab / Social Media and Data Lab

Department of Physics

• Surfaces and Nanomaterials Laboratory (LSN)
• X-Ray Crystallography and Diffraction Laboratory
• Laboratory of Robust Phenomena in Optics(Lafer)
• Laboratory of Matter Out-of-Equilibrium (LMFE)

Department of Geophysics

• National Seismological Center
• Seismological Electronics and Instrumentation Laboratory (LABES-DGF)
• Applied Geophysics Laboratory
• Meteorological Laboratory (LM-DGF) 

Department of Geology

• X-ray Flourescence Spectrometry Laboratory (EDX-XRF)
• Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
• Geochemistry Laboratory
• Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis Laboratory
• Analog Modeling Laboratory
• Paleomagnetism Laboratory
• Sample Preparation Laboratory
• Sedimentology Laboratory - FTIR
• Cortes Workshop Laboratory 
• Mineralogical Studies Laboratory
• High Resolution Transmission Microscope Laboratory 

Deparment of Civil Engineering

• Francisco Javier Domínguez Laboratory (LFJD)

Department of Mining

• Block Caving and Geomechanics Laboratories
• Geostatistics Laboratory (Alges) 
• Electrochemistry Laboratory 
• PyrometallurgyLaboratory 
• Mine Planning Laboratory (Delphos)
• Mineral Processing Laboratory
• Laboratory of Hydrometallurgy 
• Mineral Characterization Laboratory 
• Environmental Mining Laboratory 
• Reservoir Evaluation Room 

Department of Electrical Engineering

• Accumulator Laboratory
• Laboratory of Automatical
• Advanced Control Laboratory I
• Laboratory of Power Electronics, Actuators and Distributed Generation
• Energy and Drives Laboratory
• Information and Decision Laboratory, IDS (Information and Decision Systems Group, IDS)
• Biomedical Engineering Laboratory 
• Computational Intelligence Laboratory 
• Micro Networks and ElectromobilityLaboratory 
• Millimeter and Submillimeter Waves Laboratory
• Processing and Voice Transmission Laboratory (LPTV)
• Robotics Laboratory 
• Photonics Laboratory
• Optical & Wireless Lab (OWL)
• Digital Image Processing Laboratory
• Computer Vision Laboratory
• Laboratory for Planetary and Space Exploration (LEEP)

Department of Industrial Engineering

• Web Intelligence Laboratory (WIL)

Department of Mechanical Engineering 

• Machine Intelligence and Synthesis Laboratory 
• High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope Laboratory 

Department of Chemical and Biotechnology Engineering

• Hydrometallurgy and Electrochemistry Laboratories
• Polymers Laboratory
• Distributed Computing and Process Modeling Laboratory
• Catalysis and Energy Laboratory
• Protein Purification and Characterization Laboratory
• Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering Laboratory
• Fermentation and Metabolic Engineering Laboratory 
• Animal Cell Cultures Laboratory

Center for Mathematical Modeling- CMM

• Education Laboratory (E-CMM) 
• Scientific Images and Visualization Modeling Laboratory (MOTIV)
• Mathematical Modeling for Geomechanics Laboratory (MMGeo)
• Production and Logistics Laboratory (LPL)
• Network Economics and Risk Analysis Laboratory (Neorisk)
• National High Performance Computing Laboratory
• Natural Resources and Bioprocesses Laboratory (NatBio)
• Laboratory for Mathematical Modeling in Mining and Metallurgy
• Laboratory for Bioinformatics and Mathematical Genomics