Science and engineering
Physicist
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: moderate according to the ILO, very high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +6.5% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Physicists and astronomers (ISCO 2111). Physicists and astronomers conduct research and improve or develop concepts, theories and operational methods concerning matter, space, time, energy, forces and fields and the interrelationship between these physical phenomena.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
32 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- astronomer
- astronomers
- astronomy analyst
- astronomy research analyst
- astronomy research scientist
- astronomy researcher
- astronomy scholar
- astronomy science researcher
- astronomy scientist
- astrophysicist
- ballist physicist
- biophysicist
- cosmologist
- cosmology data scientist
- cosmology research scientist
- cosmology scientist
- evolutionary cosmologist
- forensic physicist
- medical physicist
- nuclear physicist
- observational cosmologist
- petrophysicist
- physicist
- physicists
- physics analyst
- physics research analyst
- physics research scientist
- physics researcher
- physics scholar
- physics science researcher
- physics scientist
- theoretical cosmologist
Training
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Gauges
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.