Institute of Physics

Physics research and education at our institute covers a wide range of topics - both experimental and theoretical, and ranging from fundamental to more applied.

Mazi Jalaal receives Oldroyd Early Career Award

The European Society of Rheology has awarded the 2026 Oldroyd Early Career Award to IoP-physicist Mazi Jalaal. The award highlights outstanding, early-career achievements in the field of rheology and for commitments ...
11 February: International Day of Women and Girls in Science

11 February is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The Institute of Physics celebrates and thanks its excellent female staff members!
Rocket science? 3D printing soft matter in zero gravity

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km before falling back ...
Spherical assemblies of nanocrystals

From table salt to snowflakes, and from gemstones to diamonds—we encounter crystals everywhere in daily life, usually cubic (table salt) or hexagonal (snowflakes). Researchers from Noushine Shahidzadeh's group at the ...
Bringing business and science together at the Deep Tech Day

On 28 January, the UvA Faculty of Science hosted the Deep Tech Day to explore how our deep technological research can create real-world impact and foster collaboration with business leaders and innovators. The ...
ENW-M grants for three IoP researchers

In the latest round of the Open Competition Domain Science – M programme (ENW-M), three IoP researchers were awarded grants for their projects. Rene Gerritsma received an M1 grant for his project “Trapped ion qudits ...
From Spontaneous Collectives to Distributed Machines

Jonas Veenstra, who recently obtained his PhD at the Institute of Physics, has obtained a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council. The grant allows Veenstra to carry out a 24-month research project at ENS Lyon ...
Proof of Concept grant for Mazi Jalaal

The European Research Council has awarded a Proof of Concept grant to UvA-IoP physicist Mazi Jalaal and his team. The project, “Portable, Early Warning for Cyanobacterial Blooms”, aims to develop a new tool aimed at ...
Turn off the light to see

In the most recent Open Competition Domain Science – XS round, IoP and Nikhef physicist Tina Pollmann received a grant for her dark matter project “Turn off the light to see”.
NWO ENW-M grants for five UvA Faculty of Science researchers

NWO has awarded grants to 20 projects in the latest round of the Open Competition ENW-M. Five UvA Faculty of Science researchers have received the grant: Rene Gerritsma, Richard Ott, Naima Starkloff, Marcel ...