Physics & Astrophysics Laboratories (CSH-005)
Summary 🟡 ~
- Owner Unit: College of Science and Health
- Sub-unit: Department of Physics and Astrophysics
- Content Type: infrastructure
- Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
- Last Verified: May 30, 2026
Description & capabilities
Department-wide Physics and Astrophysics research infrastructure including x-ray sources, optical tables, lasers, electronics instrumentation, sample preparation, materials/detector testing, and access to shared McGowan instrumentation, machine shop, dedicated laser/FPGA labs (CSH-007), and HPCC for computational workflows.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: Physics department page is the public entry point; specialized labs and shared McGowan instrumentation require physics affiliation or approved collaboration.
- Access URL: csh.depaul.edu/academics/physics/Pages/default.aspx
- Contact name: CSH front desk
- Contact email: CSHFrontDesk@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-05-30
- Source URLs:
- csh.depaul.edu/academics/physics/Pages/default.aspx
Verification
- Status: likely (
~) - Confidence: 80/100
- Rationale: Physics & Astrophysics department page active; research infrastructure references McGowan and specialized labs.
- Last verified: 2026-05-30
- Evidence:
- Official physics department page
- Linked CSH-007 laser/FPGA labs in map
Equipment
Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search (e.g. “3D printers”, “laser cutter”, “NMR”).
| Category | Specific equipment |
|---|---|
| X-ray sources | X-ray tube sources |
| Optical tables and laser optics | Optical tables; Department lasers (general optics research) |
| Electronics benches and prototyping | Electronics instrumentation (department) |
| Sample preparation (lab) | Sample preparation areas |
| Materials and detector testing | Materials and detector testing infrastructure |
Equipment access (via linked resources)
| Resource | Notes |
|---|---|
| CSH-001 | McGowan-South core instrumentation (spectrometry, chromatography, NMR) and chemistry machine shop |
| CSH-007 | Femtosecond laser and FPGA/electronics laboratories (beamline instrumentation development) |
| CDM-014 | HPCC GPU compute for image analysis, model fitting, and ML workflow development |
Source: CSH Physics & Astrophysics; grant facilities narrative (May 2026). Last verified: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Physics & Astrophysics
- Email: CSH front desk
Last verified: May 28, 2026.
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Jesús Pando (Director) — jpando@depaul.edu · Profile
- Bernhard Beck-Winchatz (Affiliated faculty) — bbeckwin@depaul.edu · Profile
- Eric Landahl (Affiliated faculty) — Profile
- Gabriela Gonzalez Aviles (Affiliated faculty) — ggonza18@depaul.edu · Profile
Source URL
Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.
Documented Relationships
Uses CSH-001 McGowan instrumentation and machine shop; hosts or connects to CSH-007 laser/FPGA labs; uses CDM-014 HPCC for image analysis and ML pipelines. External user-facility partners: EXT-003 (APS), EXT-004 (ALCF).
Linked Relationship IDs
- CSH-009 - STEM Center Hub
- CSH-001 - Chemistry Core Instrumentation & Machine Shop
- CSH-007 - Physics Laser Timing & FPGA Laboratories
- CSH-013 - Gonzalez Materials Laboratory
- CDM-014 - High-Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC)
- CSH-006 - Electronics Minor
- EXT-003 - Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- EXT-004 - Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
Documented facility links
- EXT-016 — Illinois Institute of Technology
- Relationship: joint_degree_program
- Rationale: DePaul Physics and IIT engineering joint program (Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, Computer Engineering); physics-side advising documented on DePaul catalog engineering-physics concentration page.
- Source URLs:
Notes
Department facilities partially documented via grant facilities narrative (May 2026); verify against public Physics pages when updated.