Our research interests involve theoretical and experimental high energy, particle and astro-particle physics, cosmology, physics of inflation and early Universe, in particular gravitational waves. Recently, a nuclear physics group was founded.

The lab has over 20 scientists from over six different countries. We are part of the CMS collaboration at CERN and of the LISA gravitational wave detector collaboration at the European Space Agency (ESA). We work to determine the fundamental nature of the universe through gravitational waves and other physics in the centre of excellence „Foundations of the  Universe“ in collaboration with the University of Tartu and Tallinn Technical University.

The computing centre of the laboratory has a powerful cluster with 6000 cores and 4 PB of storage. We do CMS particle physics simulations, compute phase transitions in the early Universe, and other computations that need high performance computing. We take part in the ETAIS to develop the scientific computing infrastructure in Estonia.