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Lotte Mertens (UvA-IoP) will receive the Lorentz Graduation Award for Theoretical Physics, awarded annually by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. In her prize-winning master’s thesis, Mertens ...
Physicists rapport new breakthrough in field of topological matter
13 Nov 2020
Sometimes, the inside of a material can determine what happens on the outside. A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam has devised a new way to make use of this general truth, in particular in systems ...
Special superconductor performs even better in a magnetic field
12 Nov 2020
In a recent featured review written for Physics Today, Anne de Visser (UvA-IoP) explains how some very special materials can conduct electricity without any resistance – and behave even better when a magnetic field ...
Robert Spreeuw's donut-mode paper in Milestone Collection
9 Nov 2020
In March of this year, the 1992 paper on the orbital angular momentum of light by Les Allen, Marco Beijersbergen, Robert Spreeuw (UvA-IoP) and Han Woerdman was chosen as one of three "classic" papers by the journal ...
New Pandemic Science initiative requests scientific community to review research
6 Nov 2020
The world is dealing with an unprecedented pandemic. Fighting the new virus and its effects requires research and insights from many disciplines.
Prestigious award for PhD candidate Emma Mamisoa Nomena
2 Nov 2020
PhD candidate at Institute of Physics Emma Mamisoa Nomena won a prestigious Green Talents Award for the fabrication of bio-based materials using cellulose.
Marcel Vreeswijk appointed Professor of Experimental Physics
30 Oct 2020
Prof. Marcel Vreeswijk has been appointed Professor of Experimental Physics of Top Quarks at the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Coronavirus: the risk of aerosols
27 Oct 2020
A team consisting of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and medical researchers from the Amsterdam UMC and the Cardiology Centers of the Netherlands, has investigated the potential role of small aerosol ...
Science Colloquium: a special lecture by Nobel Prize winner prof. Takaaki Kajita
26 Oct 2020
Have you always wanted to listen to a talk by a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, and ask them questions about their field? Here is your chance! Professor Takaaki Kajita, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for his ...
ENW-KLEIN for dark mater research Colijn and Postma
22 Oct 2020
Even tough 25 percent of the universe is made out of dark matter, it has never been observed in the lab. Physicists Auke-Pieter Colijn and Marieke Postma have obtained an ENW-KLEIN grant from NWO to search for hidden ...
Noushine Shahidzadeh appointed professor of Crystallization in Porous Media
9 Oct 2020
Dr Noushine Shahidzadeh has been appointed professor of Crystallization in Porous Media at the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Aerosols persist in insufficiently ventilated elevator cabins
23 Sep 2020
Aerosols can persist for periods of ten to twenty minutes inside an elevator – during normal operation. With the elevator doors permanently closed, this period can increase to thirty minutes, while it decreases to ...
Physics protecting art
22 Sep 2020
Sometimes the arts and the sciences find surprising ways to collaborate. This month, the Crystinart-programme was kicked off – an initiative of UvA physicist Prof. Noushine Shahidzadeh that aims to protect artworks ...
Dark matter even more elusive than previously thought
17 Sep 2020
Dark matter is even more elusive than thought before. This is the main message of a new study by a group of scientists that includes Shin’ichiro Ando of the Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam. The ...
Jan de Boer new member of Executive Board Dutch Research Council
27 Aug 2020
The Minister of Education, Culture and Science has appointed UvA-IoP physicist Prof. Jan de Boer as a member of the Executive Board of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). De Boer will also become the new chair of NWO’s ...
Towards a silicon light source
20 Aug 2020
A team of physicists led by Kateřina (Dohnalová) Newell from the University of Amsterdam, have devised a new way to improve the optical properties of silicon nanocrystals, which under normal cicrumstances are quite ...
A collaboration between art and science
14 Aug 2020
Florian Schreck’s research on quantum clocks and ultracold atoms has been selected as one of 13 projects to be featured in the Studiotopia initiative for collaborations between art and science. For a period of 17 ...
From boiling eggs to blood clotting: how do gels form?
16 Jul 2020
Gels occur everywhere in our everyday life, but the precise way in which they form is not very well understood. Combining experimental observations and numerical models, physicists from the universities of Amsterdam ...
Detecting hidden nanostructures by converting light into sound
8 Jul 2020
Researchers at ARCNL have found a way to detect nanostructures buried under many layers of opaque material, using very high frequency sound waves induced by light. Their findings are promising in view of applications ...
AI4Science Lab sets out to take scientific data analysis to the next level
29 Jun 2020
The organization has been set up, the research programme established and PhD students appointed: the new AI4Science Laboratory is ready for take-off. A virtual kick-off workshop on Wednesday 8 July celebrates the ...
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