Existing faculty at CIIT Islamabad in the group of High Energy Physics & Cosmology (HEP&C) and Ultra Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (URHIC) consists of four foreign professors, two associate professors, one assistant professor, one advisor and one lecturer. The group is working on problems involving R-parity violation phenomenology in Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), Non-Standard Electroweak interactions and their implication in Neutrino Physics, CP-violation, CKM-matrix elements, Cosmological Inflation and Recent Inflationary Models, Cosmological Constant Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Finite Temperature Field Theory, Relativistic Nuclear-Nuclear collisions and Dark Energy. An important component of this group is working experimental problems of Ultra Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (URHIC) affiliated with the Alice of CERN.

Materials play an important role in our daily life from very simple use to hi-tech applications. The research group at CIIT is engaged in synthesis and characterization of a wide range of advanced materials to cope with the academic erudition and impending applications. Synthesis approaches include both solid state reaction methods and preparation by wet chemistry. Materials under investigation include but not limited to metals, semiconductors, superconductors, ceramics and composites. These are synthesized in bulk, thin films, nanoparticles and nanostructures. Thermo physical properties include structural analysis, thermoelectricity, thermal diffusivity, heat capacity, thermal conductivity, dielectric spectroscopy, electrical resistivity, magnetic polarizability & susceptibility, magneto electrical conductivity and optical spectroscopy.

Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPL) works to advance understanding of the non-thermal Plasmas by developing and responding to major contemporary issues within low temperature plasma physics and atomic and molecular physics. Low-temperature plasmas have a huge range of technological and medical applications. These include plasma etching for semiconductor chip manufacture, plasma deposition (e.g. for solar cells or protective coatings), plasma TVs and new medical applications (e.g. sterilization, biocompatible materials).