Three times IMAPP success at the Open Competition ENW-XL
On 16 December 2024, three projects with IMAPP researchers were funded by ENW-XL grants.
ERC Consolidator Grants for research on synthetic cells, programming and air showers
Three Radboud University researchers are set to receive a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
Radboud Science Awards 2024 awarded
On Thursday the 21st of November the Radboud Science Awards 2024 were presented to prof. dr. Erno Hermans, dr. Béatrice Bonga, and dr. Coen van Galen.
Bjarni Pont receives 2024 Auger Impact Award
Bjarni Pont, from the department of Astrophysics, has been named one of three recipients of the prestigious 2024 Auger Impact Award.
Unravelling the emergence of gravity and spacetime in new NWA program
IMAPP is participating in a new national program on "Emergence at all scales", which has just been awarded by NWO as part of their Research on Routes by Consortia (ORC) program line of the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA).
Radboud Science Awards 2024 go to research into slave registers, black holes, and stress
Coen van Galen, Béatrice Bonga en Erno Hermans win the Radboud Science Awards 2024.
Jorgen D’Hondt appointed director Nikhef
Prof. Dr. Jorgen D’Hondt has been appointed director of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef. He succeeds current director Prof. Dr. Stan Bentvelsen, whose second term expires at the end of this year.
Teresa Bister receives Veni grant
Veni grants for four promising Nikhef researchers and colleague at High Energy Physics, Teresa Bister, is one of them.
Renate Loll new Chair of the Gravitational Physics Division (GPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS).
Renate Loll has been elected as the new Chair of the Gravitational Physics Division (GPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS).
A safe approach to quantum gravity - Frank Saueressig and Maximilian Becker
After 25 years of steady progress, recent advances in theory and computing are enabling researchers to connect an approach to quantum gravity called asymptotic safety to the Standard Model.
Second Nikhef Theory Day in Nijmegen
On 22 March, more than 30 particle physicists from across the country got together in Nijmegen.
Winner IMAPP PhD Award for scientific communication 2024
Patricia Ribes (High Energy Physics) won this year the PhD Award for scientific communication.
Black hole symphonies: revealing the complexities in gravitational waves
In this new work, the authors showed the presence of QNM frequencies predicted by second-order perturbation theory in the gravitational wave flux infalling into the horizon.
The observation of multiple ringdown modes in a binary black hole merger
An international team of researchers including Prof. Badri Krishnan at Radboud University has verified an important property of black holes known as the no-hair theorem using gravitational wave observations.
NWO Demonstrator for production of heavy calcium isotopes
Nicolo de Groot, professor of High Energy Physics at Radboud University, receives a Demonstrator Grant from the NWO.
Royal distinction for Renate Loll (Professor of Theory of Fundamental Interactions Beyond the Standard Model)
On the occasion of King's Day this year, Renate Loll (High Energy Physics), was awarded Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. The award was presented by Mayor Bruls of Nijmegen, at her department of High Energy Physics.
“Mapping resistance” wins the Strategic Communication Challenge 2023!
Marieke Fransen, together with her teammates Lisa Vandeberg and Adriaan Denkers, has won the Strategic Communication Challenge 2023 of the Centre for Strategic Communication (CSC) from Logeion.
Nikhef Theory Day in Nijmegen
On March 24, we hosted 30 theorists in particle physics and cosmology from across the country. It was a lively day with focused presentations and lots of discussions over lots of coffee. Nikhef Theory Days take place about once per month.
Random Geometry in Math & Physics March 29-31, 2023
The idea of this workshop is to bring together mathematicians and physicists whose research features random geometry in one way or another, to share insights and open problems, and to encourage interactions between disciplines.
Successfully GRAND collaboration meeting in Nijmegen
From the 16th until the 20th of January our department hosted the GRAND collaboration meeting. During this meeting all aspects of the GRAND experiment were discussed, including possible sites, hardware development and analysis results.
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