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
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.
Cars and other motorised vehicles are built in such a way that when they crash, their front-end crumples and any passengers inside don’t feel the
UvA researchers show how non-moving single-celled organisms manage to avoid bright light Too much of a good thing is no good at all. Living organisms
IoP physicist Mazi Jalaal has received an NWO Vidi grant for a project that aims to better understand processes in living systems based on a
Daniel Bonn, Antoine Deblais, Tess Heeremans and Sander Woutersen have won an Ig Nobel prize for their research in which they investigate the behaviour of
Daniel Bonn, professor of complex fluids at the Institute of Physics, has received an Advanced Research Grant of 2.5 million euros from the European Research
Adding one simple rule to an idealized game of billiards leads to a wealth of intriguing mathematical questions, as well as applications in the physics
Researchers design new granular materials that flow but can still be compressed When we take a stroll on the beach, we walk on the sand
If it walks like a particle, and talks like a particle… it may still not be a particle. A topological soliton is a special type
The branch of mathematics known as topology has become a cornerstone of modern physics thanks to the remarkable – and above all reliable – properties
A consortium led by Corentin Coulais (UvA Institute of Physics) has received an NWO key enabling technology grant for a study on the way in
Friction is hard to predict and control, especially since surfaces that come in contact are rarely perfectly flat. New experiments demonstrate that the amount of
Meet the researchers at the ChemAI event on 16 November To kick-start the new Research Priority Area (RPA) of the Faculty of Science in “Artificial
UvA physicist Corentin Coulais has won the annual Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research awarded by the American Physical Society. The award was given
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