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.

The Dutch-Norwegian hunt for atomic secrets

During the early Cold War, the Netherlands and Norway collaborated on a nuclear reactor, despite strict American control over nuclear research. Theoretical physicist Machiel Kleemans investigated this cooperation. He ...
KM3NeT detects highest energy neutrino ever

Today, the KM3NeT collaboration, involving several UvA researchers, announced the detection of a cosmic neutrino with a record energy of about 220 PeV, measured in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea.
Science Colloquium with former CTO and President ASML great success

For the 25th anniversary of the Faculty of Science, the faculty and the Institute of Physics (IoP) organised a Science Colloquium on February 10. The speaker was Martin van den Brink, ASML's Chief Technology Officer ...
Philippe Bouyer elected Fellow Member of Optica

The Board of Directors of Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, have elected physicist Philippe Bouyer as a Fellow Member. Bouyer receives this honour for his pioneering work on ultra-cold atoms and ...
Proof of Concept grant for Corentin Coulais

The European Research Council has awarded a Proof of Concept grant to UvA-IoP physicist Corentin Coulais and his team. The project, Scaling up dissipative metamaterials for energy absorption applications, aims to ...
Detecting edges at the speed of light

Physicists from the group of Jorik van de Groep at the UvA-Institute of Physics have devised a new method that can be used to detect edges of images in an extremely energy efficient and ultrafast way. The results ...
UvA joins national collaboration HFML-FELIX

Laser and magnet lab HFML-FELIX will continue within a large national partnership consisting of Radboud University, NWO and six other Dutch universities, including UvA. From this new collaboration, HFML-FELIX will ...
NWO-XL grant for Higgs boson research

NWO has awarded an ENW-XL grant to the research project "The potential of the Higgs boson". In the project, led by Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef/RU), several UvA-IoP researchers are involved.
Paul de Jong new spokesperson KM3NeT Collaboration

During its last Collaboration meeting, the KM3NeT Collaboration has elected a new Management Team, who will serve for the two coming years. Paul De Jong (UvA-Institute of Physics and Nikhef) will be the new ...
Xiaofei Guo wins the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis award 2024

Physicist Xiaofei Guo is the winner of the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa physics thesis award 2024. She carried out her PhD at UvA-IoP in the research in the group of Corentin Coulais, and defended her thesis cum laude in ...