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.

Proof of Concept grant for Corentin Coulais

The European Research Council has awarded a Proof of Concept grant to UvA-IoP physicist Corentin Coulais and his team. The project, Scaling up dissipative metamaterials for energy absorption applications, aims to ...
Detecting edges at the speed of light

Physicists from the group of Jorik van de Groep at the UvA-Institute of Physics have devised a new method that can be used to detect edges of images in an extremely energy efficient and ultrafast way. The results ...
UvA joins national collaboration HFML-FELIX

Laser and magnet lab HFML-FELIX will continue within a large national partnership consisting of Radboud University, NWO and six other Dutch universities, including UvA. From this new collaboration, HFML-FELIX will ...
NWO-XL grant for Higgs boson research

NWO has awarded an ENW-XL grant to the research project "The potential of the Higgs boson". In the project, led by Pamela Ferrari (Nikhef/RU), several UvA-IoP researchers are involved.
Paul de Jong new spokesperson KM3NeT Collaboration

During its last Collaboration meeting, the KM3NeT Collaboration has elected a new Management Team, who will serve for the two coming years. Paul De Jong (UvA-Institute of Physics and Nikhef) will be the new ...
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 ...