Pavol Jozef Šafárik University was established in 1959 as the second classical University in Slovakia. The current structure of  P. J. Šafárik University includes four faculties – Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Public Administration.  Research areas at Institute of Physics are magnetisms, low temperature physics, high energy physics, biophysics, and theoretical physics. Scientists of the institute contributed to the R&D in area of the grid computing and are members of the NorduGrid collaboration.