Erik van Heumen (UvA), Jom Luiten and Peter Mutsaers (TU/e) have been awarded funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Technology Programme. The grant will support the project ...

Producing hydrogen directly from water using sunlight could drastically increase the energy efficiency of hydrogen as a sustainable energy source. In a new research project of the UvA Molecular and Materials Design ...

The conference Metamaterials 2025, hosted in Amsterdam last week and organized by the Institute of Physics together with AMOLF and TU Eindhoven, was a resounding success. The meeting brought some 400 scientists from ...

Sebastian De Haro (ILLC and IoP) and his colleagues have been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a project together with Nima Lashkari (Purdue University), Hong Liu (MIT) and Richard ...

Solitonic waves – waves that keep their shape and direction of motion for a long time – have intrigued physicists for almost two centuries. In real-world circumstances, these waves eventually die out due to energy ...

The NWO Science Board has awarded an M-grant to the project “Reconstructing 25% of the Universe with the Large Hadron Collider”, in which UvA physicist Flavia de Almeida Dias is one of the principal investigators. ...

In the most recent round of Veni grants, NWO has funded three researchers to carry out a research project at the UvA-Institute of Physics. IoP welcomes the Veni recipients Stephanie (Alex) Brown, Kamran Salehi ...

UvA-Institute of Physics PhD student Wenfeng Liu has been awarded an NWO Rubicon grant. The grant allows Liu to carry out his project “Sequential deformations in pressurized shells” at Harvard University.

The Dutch Science Council (NWO) has awarded Veni grants to 28 promising UvA and Amsterdam UMC researchers. The funding will enable the laureates to further develop their research ideas over the next three years. The ...

The European Commission has decided to fund the doctoral network QuRIOUS – Quantum Research and Innovation in Optical clocks for Upcoming Scientists – which will train and develop the skills of 15 doctoral students ...