Department of High Energy Astrophysics

• Gamma-ray astronomy - Collaborations High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) projects, and Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)
• Astrophysics of accretion disks and relativistic jets
• Cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes and active galaxies
• Astrophysics of gamma-ray bursts
• Heliophysics, including studies of coronal mass ejections
• Studies of geophysical phenomena and heliospheric influences on Earth using measurements of extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves
• Acceleration and propagation of high-energy cosmic rays

Department of Radioastronomy and Space Physics

• Investigation of gas and magnetic fields in galaxies, galaxy clusters, and intergalactic medium
• Radio polarimetric observations of galaxies with largest radio telescopes and interferometric systems (EVLA, LOFAR, WSRT, ATCA, Effelsberg), and space observatories (XMM-Newton, Herschel)
• Numerical modelling of evolution of cosmic magnetic fields and gravitational interactions of galaxies
• Theoretical investigations of primordial cosmic structures: filaments and galactic superclusters
• Research of planetary ionospheres

Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology

• Mathematical formulations of gravitational physics and their applications to astrophysics
• The theory of structure formation in the early Universe
• Gravitational lensing in cosmology
• Chaos and critical phenomena in general relativity
• Computer algebra systems with application to general relativity

Department of Stellar and Extragalactic Astronomy

• Investigation of dynamical, physical and chemical processes in comets
• Evolution of galaxies and large scale structures in the Universe
• Investigation of spectrocscopic properties of active galaxies
• Study of mechanisms of multiple radio activity in active galaxies
• Investigation of properties of stars and stellar evolution