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.

Control over friction, from small to large scales

Friction is hard to predict and control, especially since surfaces that come in contact are rarely perfectly flat. New experiments demonstrate that the amount of friction between two silicon surfaces, even at large ...
Quantum Application Lab receives SESA Grant for development of Quantum Computing applications

The Quantum Application Lab (QAL), a collaboration of six scientific organizations across different domains of expertise under coordination of UvA, has received a “Subsidie Economische Structuur en ...
IoP spin-off Eddytec receives financing from Innovation Fund North Holland

Eddytec B.V., a spin-off of Dr. Rudolf Sprik of the Institute of Physics of the University of Amsterdam and colleagues, has received a convertible loan of €300,000 from the North Holland Innovation Fund. Eddytec is ...
Enrico Cinti wins EPSA Essay Prize

Enrico Cinti, currently a postdoc at the Institute of Physics, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena, has won the Graduate Student Essay Prize of the ...
Albert Polman appointed as Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering

After being officially launched on May 22, the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced that Albert Polman, professor at the UvA Institute of Physics and AMOLF group leader, has been appointed as Fellow.
Four projects kick-start the Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Molecules and Materials research programme

To kick-start the new Research Priority Area (RPA) of the Faculty of Science in "Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Molecules and Materials" (AI4SMM), four projects have just been launched. Combining the ...
ERC Synergy Grant for Daniel Baumann and Colleagues

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant of 10 million euros to the project “UNIVERSE+: Positive Geometry in Particle Physics and Cosmology”. UvA physicist Daniel Baumann is one of the four ...
Corentin Coulais wins APS Early Career Award

UvA physicist Corentin Coulais has won the annual Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research awarded by the American Physical Society. The award was given for his pioneering research into soft matter-based ...
Aart Heijboer appointed professor by special appointment in Experimental Neutrino Astroparticle Physics

Aart Heijboer has been appointed as professor by special appointment in Experimental Neutrino Astroparticle Physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. The chair was established on behalf of the ...
Soft, living materials made with algae glow under stress

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has developed soft yet durable materials that glow in response to mechanical stress, such as compression, stretching or twisting. The study was a ...