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Hanneke Gelderblom wins Minerva Prize 2024
Assistant Professor Hanneke Gelderblom (TU/e) has won the Minerva Prize 2024.
Xiaofei Guo wins the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis award 2024
She carried out her PhD research in the group of Corentin Coulais (UvA).
Weave information sessions: NWO Funding for collaborations with Flanders or Germany
Weave information sessions: NWO Funding for collaborations with Flanders or Germany
BiBB STEM Career Day – 20 November 2024
Get inspired about STEM career opportunities in governance, politics and policy.
Call for nomination for prizes
Deadline 1 Oct. 2024 for Minerva Prize and Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa Thesis Award
Jesse SlimJesse Slim wins the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis award 2023
He carried out his PhD research in the group of Ewold Verhagen (AMOLF)
DPC Afternoon meeting for new PI’s
22 January 2024 3rd DPC Afternoon meeting
noneTalieh Ghiasi wins Minerva Prize 2023
Talieh Ghiasi (Harvard and TU Delft)
1st live DPC meeting: an afternoon meeting for all new PI’s
Meeting details: 3 April 2023 at NH Koningshof, Veldhoven
L’Oreal Foundation Carmem M. Gilardoni wins the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis prize 2022
She carried out her PhD research in the group of Caspar van der Wal (RUG)
Studio Oostrum/Hollandse HoogteNynke Dekker wins Physica Prize 2023
Nynke Dekker, prof. single molecule nanoscale biophysics at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TUD
NWO4-5 April, 2023 NWO Physics at Veldhoven
This year’s theme: MOTION
Graphdude/CasimirAnne-Marije Zwerver wins Minerva Prize 2022
Anne-Marije Zwerver (QuTech/TUD)
‘Bèta in Bestuur & Beleid’ career day
9 Nov 2022 – 1st Bèta in Bestuur & Beleid career day for STEM PhD students, postdocs and master students
Daan FrenkelLorentz Medal awarded to Daan Frenkel
Lorentz Medal 2022 awarded to Daan Frenkel
Three physicists elected as new KNAW members
3 new KNAW members: Daniel Bonn, Roberta Croce and Maria Antonietta Loi
Minerva Prize 2021: two laureates
Wiebke Albrecht and Natalia Chepiga are the winners of the Minerva Prize 2021
ASMAnne Meeussen wins the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis prize
Anne Meeussen (AMOLF/LEI) wins the Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa physics thesis award 2021
NWOConference NWO Physics connects – 25-26 January 2022
Physics@Veldhoven takes place at 25 and 26 January 2022. Theme of the 2022 edition is Physics Connects.
Spinoza Prize 2021: prof. Lieven Vandersypen (TU Delft/QuTech)
Six researchers awarded the highest distinction in Dutch Science, and receive 2.5 million euros.
Conference Dutch Biophysics 2021
11-12 October 2021: online edition of DutchBiophysics conference on molecular and cellular biophysics
Event: Insight Out event for women in STEM
STEM career event: four days in June 2021 full of sessions about ‘Learning from and inspiring each other’
Physics community successful in National Growth Fund
Extra impulse of 1.35 billion euros for innovation from the National Growth Fund
New The Young Academy member: Sanli Faez
Dr Sanli Faez (UU) is per 23 March 2021 one of the ten new members of The Young Academy
Daniel Bonn wins Physica Prize 2021
Daniel Bonn (UvA), a leading expert in soft matter, is awarded the Physica Prize 2021
Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa physics thesis prize 2020
Koen Bastiaans (LEI) wins the 1st Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa thesis prize of the DPC
Robbert Dijkgraaf in ScienceMakersLAB
Role model Prof. Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf – ScienceMakersLAB: Inspiration from practice (in Dutch only)
Establishment of Councils for Physics and Chemistry
Set up of new Councils for Physics and for Chemistry that promote the academic science and education