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.

From bananas to bacteria: A day of discovery at Amsterdam Science Park

On Saturday, 4 October, the annual Science Day took place at Amsterdam Science Park, welcoming science enthusiasts of all ages to explore how our world works — from the smallest atom to the largest stars. And from ...
Four cum laude PhD defenses at IoP

The month of September saw an extraordinary occurrence at the UvA-Institute of Physics: within a week, no less than four PhD students received the cum laude distinction after defending their PhD theses. IoP ...
Erik van Heumen receives NWO OTP grant

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 ...
Optimizing porous thin films for sunlight-powered hydrogen production

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 ...
Metamaterials 2025 resounding success

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 ...
Templeton Foundation Grant awarded to Sebastian De Haro

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 ...
The wave that keeps on breathing

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 ...
Reconstructing 25% of the Universe

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. ...
IoP welcomes three NWO Veni laureates

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 ...
Rubicon grant for Wenfeng Liu

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.