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.

NWO ENW-M grants for three UvA Faculty of Science researchers

NWO has awarded grants to 16 projects in the latest round of the Open Competition ENW-M. Three UvA Faculty of Science researchers have received the grant: Ronald Bruijn, Tati Fernández Ibáñez, and Carlos Fitzsimons. ...
AI can help scientists publish less

UvA researcher Gianfranco Bertone argues that the best outcome of artificial intelligence (AI) in science would not be to help researchers publish more papers, but fewer and better ones. His Comment is published ...
Testing dark matter models with current observations

Scientists are eagerly awaiting future gravitational wave detectors. These highly sensitive detectors should provide a wealth of data that among other things may shed light on the mystery of dark matter. However, as ...
UvA opens HoQ Amsterdam, a co-working space for quantum

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has opened HoQ Amsterdam, an office building for existing and future companies and NGOs active in the quantum domain. The building will be operated and supported by the network ...
Theoretical physicists get a grip on the electron electric dipole moment

It is unknown whether the electric charge inside elementary particles is perfectly symmetrically distributed around their spin axis. Theoretical physicists from UvA, Nikhef and other institutions have now developed ...
WomenNetPhysics 2026 great success

On Friday, 8 May, around 150 physicists from across the Netherlands gathered at the University of Amsterdam for WomenNetPhysics, the largest Dutch networking event focused on strengthening the position of women in ...
Open Technology grant for Noushine Shahidzadeh

UvA-IoP physicist Noushine Shahidzadeh is one of the co-applicants for the project “Effective chemical barriers against rising damp (CHEMBARIDA)” that has been awarded an Open Technology Programme Award by the Dutch ...
Jan de Boer elected KNAW member

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has elected sixteen new members. One of the new members is UvA-IoP physicist Jan de Boer, a theoretical physicist specialising in string theory and quantum ...
Rubicon grant for Liam Bond

Liam Bond, PhD candidate at the UvA-Institute of Physics, has been awarded an NWO Rubicon grant. The grant allows Bond to carry out his project “Why not both? Hybrid qubit-oscillator systems for quantum advantage” at ...
Climate scientists present policy package on eve of Dutch-Colombian summit

This week, the Netherlands, together with Colombia, is organising an important international climate summit in Santa Marta, Colombia. For the first time, the phasing out of fossil fuels is the central focus, a topic ...