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.

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 ...
TeraTom project funded by the National Growth Fund

The National Growth Fund Future-proof high-tech equipment funds the project TeraTom (Terahertz tomography for heterogeneous systems on chip). In this project, TU/e, ARCNL and Saxion University of Applied Science, ...
Getting a grip on quark mixing

The quarks that make up the nuclei of all atoms around us are known to “mix”: the different types of quark occasionally change into one another. The amounts in which these processes happen are not very well known, ...
Three UvA researchers receive ERC Consolidator Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to three UvA researchers. The laureates are: Ekaterina Shutova, Antonia Rowlinson and Corentin Coulais. These prestigious subsidies are personal and ...
ERC Consolidator grant for Corentin Coulais

The European Research Council has awarded a three million euro Consolidator grant for the project “Animating Metamaterials using Non-Reciprocity” (ANIMETA) of UvA physicist Corentin Coulais. With the project, Coulais ...
Official launch of the MMD Technology hub: ‘We need new molecules and materials’

On Thursday 21 November, the new Molecular and Materials Design (MMD) Technology Hub was formally kicked off by Prof. Peter van Tienderen, Dean of the UvA Faculty of Science. In the seminar at Matrix ONE in the ...
Thesis prizes for Aude Corbeel and Silvester Borsboom

Two former master students of the UvA Institute of Physics have recently received prizes for their master theses. Aude Corbeel won the thesis prize of the Dutch Association for Logic and Philosophy of the Exact ...
Failure by design: creating the ideal shock absorber

Cars and other motorised vehicles are built in such a way that when they crash, their front-end crumples and any passengers inside don’t feel the full force of the impact. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam ...
A single cell’s siesta

Too much of a good thing is no good at all. Living organisms enjoy sunlight – in fact, they need it to stay alive – but they tend to avoid light that is too bright. Animals go to their shelter, humans have a siesta, ...
Emergence at all Scales

The consortium ‘Emergence at all Scales’, led by UvA-IoP physicist Jay Armas, has received a €7.1 million Research on Routes by Consortia grant from NWO. With the grant, the consortium will investigate the phenomenon ...