We mourn the loss of our colleague, and one of the founders of the Delta ITP consortium, Jan Zaanen (1957-2024)

De finale van de Natuurkunde Olympiade Junior 2023 is gewonnen door Thijmen Vanholder van het Lorentz Casimir Lyceum in Eindhoven.

The High Energy Physics Division of the European Physical Society has awarded its biennial Outreach Prize to UvA-IoP physicist Jay Armas. Armas receives the prize for his outstanding combination of activities on ...

UvA physicists Gianfranco Bertone and Samaya Nissanke have received an NWO ENW-M2 grant for their research project ‘Searching for dark matter with gravitational waves’. The grant allows them to create a small team of ...

How many dimensions are there? Is our universe flat or curved? How symmetric are the smallest particles we know? In his new popular science book 'Van getal naar heelal' (Dutch for 'From numbers to the universe') UvA ...

Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Daniel Baumann's new textbook 'Cosmology' has won the PROSE Award of the Association of American Publishers. The book was selected as the best new book in the category ...

Prof. Randall Kamien (University of Pennsylvania) will be the (visiting) Kramers Professor in February and March 2023 at the Utrecht Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Professor Rembert Duine researches energy efficient alternatives for electronics. He draws inspiration for this from knowledge about black holes. In doing so, he borrows physics concepts and applies them in a ...

Curiosity-driven, fundamental research is necessary for innovations that make society economically successful and socially resilient. The ENW XL-grant gives researchers the opportunity and freedom to start, ...

Astrophysicist Samaya Nissanke of the University of Amsterdam and Nikhef will be the Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics in 2024. This was announced by the Solvay Institutes in Brussels.

De finale van de Natuurkunde Olympiade Junior 2022 is gewonnen door Robert Stepanyan van de Trevianum Scholengroep te Sittard.

From the editors of New Scientist_NL: a special edition on Delta ITP. Available online, in English and Dutch

Theoretical physicist and cosmologist Alexey Boiarskyi has been appointed full professor at the Leiden Institute of Physics per 1 October 2021

As of 1 December 2021, Thomas Grimm is appointed as Professor of Quantum Gravity and Geometry at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University.

By investigating quantum transport in artificially designed fractal structures, we might be making the first steps towards the long journey that will be the unification of physics, mathematics, biology and computer ...

What does a quantum theory of gravity have in common with electrons in a ’strange’ metal? At first sight: not much, but this week in Nature a Dutch NWO consortium, including researchers Jake Ayres, Maarten Berben and ...

Elisa Chisari, cosmologist at Utrecht University and Faculty member at Delta ITP, has been awarded an NWO Vidi grant for her research proposal "Galaxy alignments answer fundamental questions about the Universe".

Physicist Martin van Hecke (Leiden University) receives a 2.5 million euro ERC Advanced grant for research into information processing materials. Starting out with a piece of rubber that can count to ten.

Rembert Duine (UU & TU/e) and Reinoud Lavrijsen (TU/e) received an NWO-ENW-Klein grant of 700,000 euro for the proposal 'Black Holes on a Chip'. The goal of the proposed research is to use state-of-the-art materials ...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to theoretical physicist Philippe Corboz, University of Amsterdam. The prestigious grant is awarded to individual researchers and amounts to around ...