Institute of Physics

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Five IoP researchers receive ERC Starting Grants

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of 400 Starting Grants to young scientists and scholars across Europe. The UvA Institute of Physics has been very successful in the current grant round, ...
Veni grants for 25 UvA and Amsterdam UMC researchers

The Dutch Science Council (NWO) has awarded Veni grants of up to 280,000 euro per project to 25 promising UvA and Amsterdam-UMC researchers. The funding will enable the laureates to further develop their research ...
Proof of Concept Grants for Corentin Coulais and Daniel Bonn

The European Research Council has announced a new round of Proof of Concept Grants. Two of the grants were awarded to UvA-IoP physicists Corentin Coulais and Daniel Bonn. Worth €150,000 each, the grants help ERC ...
Rubicon grants for three UvA researchers

Three young researchers from the UvA and Amsterdam UMC will receive Rubicon grants from NWO and ZonMW, it has been announced. The grants will allow them to further their research at an institution abroad.
Yuri Sinzato wins best speaker award at the Burgers Symposium

Second-year PhD candidate Yuri Sinzato at the UvA Institute of Physics won the best speaker award for his presentation on the dynamics of cyanobacterial colonies in turbulent flows. The research is a major attempt to ...
Metamaterials with built-in frustration have mechanical memory

Researchers from the UvA-Institute of Physics and ENS de Lyon have discovered how to design materials that necessarily have a point or line where the material doesn’t deform under stress, and that even remember how ...
Disks, spikes and clouds

The detection of gravitational waves produced by the merger of black holes is teaching us a lot about the properties of these extreme objects. A team of researchers in the group of Gianfranco Bertone at the ...
Buckle up! A new class of materials is here

Would you rather run into a brick wall or into a mattress? For most people, the choice is not difficult. A brick wall is stiff and does not absorb shocks or vibrations well; a mattress is soft and is a good shock ...
Philippe Bouyer appointed professor in Ultracold Quantum Sensing

Dr Philippe Bouyer has been appointed professor in Ultracold Quantum Sensing at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam.
NWO funding for further improvements to Virgo gravitational wave detector

The Netherlands is contributing 2.7 million euros to further improvements to the Advanced Virgo detector for gravitational waves in Pisa. The initiative, led by Nikhef researcher Andreas Freise, also includes UvA-IoP ...