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.

Bringing business and science together at the Deep Tech Day

On 28 January, the UvA Faculty of Science hosted the Deep Tech Day to explore how our deep technological research can create real-world impact and foster collaboration with business leaders and innovators. The ...
ENW-M grants for three IoP researchers

In the latest round of the Open Competition Domain Science – M programme (ENW-M), three IoP researchers were awarded grants for their projects. Rene Gerritsma received an M1 grant for his project “Trapped ion qudits ...
From Spontaneous Collectives to Distributed Machines

Jonas Veenstra, who recently obtained his PhD at the Institute of Physics, has obtained a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council. The grant allows Veenstra to carry out a 24-month research project at ENS Lyon ...
Proof of Concept grant for Mazi Jalaal

The European Research Council has awarded a Proof of Concept grant to UvA-IoP physicist Mazi Jalaal and his team. The project, “Portable, Early Warning for Cyanobacterial Blooms”, aims to develop a new tool aimed at ...
Turn off the light to see

In the most recent Open Competition Domain Science – XS round, IoP and Nikhef physicist Tina Pollmann received a grant for her dark matter project “Turn off the light to see”.
NWO ENW-M grants for five UvA Faculty of Science researchers

NWO has awarded grants to 20 projects in the latest round of the Open Competition ENW-M. Five UvA Faculty of Science researchers have received the grant: Rene Gerritsma, Richard Ott, Naima Starkloff, Marcel ...
Rubicon grants for three UvA and Amsterdam UMC researchers

Three recently graduated scholars can spend two years expanding upon their work at foreign research institutes thanks to Rubicon grants from NWO and ZonMw. For many researchers, experience abroad is an important step ...
Development of an artificial vessel that follows children's growth

Children receiving pediatric implants can face serious complications later in life, because typical implants don’t grow with them. In a new research project of the UvA Molecular and Materials Design Technology hub, ...
Mirror, mirror, on and off

Controlling light is an important technological challenge – not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes, but also at the nanometer scale. This week, physicists at the University of Amsterdam ...
Worms as particle sweepers

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a sweeping motion to clean their own environment. Physicists at the University of Amsterdam, ...