At the annual Dutch chemistry conference Chains, the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) announced that Erik Garnett (UvA-IoP and AMOLF) is the recipient of the KNCV Gold Medal. Garnett receives the award for ...

Chemists and physicists at the University of Amsterdam shed light on a crucial aspect of friction: how things begin to slide. Using fluorescence microscopy and dedicated fluorescent molecules, they are able to ...

A team of researchers, including UvA physicists and astronomers, has studied gamma rays caused by the Sagittarius Dwarf, a small neighbouring galaxy of our Milky Way. They showed that all the observed gamma radiation ...

This summer, The NWO Domain Board Science approved 21 grant applications in the Open Competition Domain Science-XL programme (ENW-XL). Together, the projects have been granted about 60 million euros. Four of the ...

The physics of collective motion has been well-studied for the last thirty years. Until now, scientists have focused on the study of ‘fluid’ movements, such as those of flocks of birds or schools of fish. Using an ...

Dr Auke Pieter Colijn has been appointed professor of Experimental Techniques in Astroparticle Physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

The FASTER consortium for new, precise picosecond detectors and algorithms for particle detectors was awarded an NWO ENW-XL grant of 3.1 million euros. Main applicant of the consortium is UvA physicist Hella Snoek; ...

A mostly Dutch consortium of astronomers and physicists are going to probe the strong nuclear interaction from all angles in the coming 5 years. They have been awarded a 3.1 million euro grant to hire 10 young ...

This is the second year that the University of Amsterdam has joined the international 3MT pitch competition.

From 24 to 29 July about 550 scientists will come to the RAI convention center in Amsterdam for the SCES 2022 conference, one of the largest conferences in the world in the field of condensed matter physics. SCES ...