Leiden Institute of Physics

🎉 NWO Vidi grant for Bas Hensen and Evert van Nieuwenburg! These two physicists will continue their research on🧲Levitated magnets with a twist and a spin: towards macroscopic quantum superpositions and 🎮Formal games for solving hard quantum control problems. @leidenscience.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher vacancy
Are you interested in research at the intersection of ML and quantum sciences? How about working with Anna Dawid at LIACS and the LeidenPhysics.bsky.social. Apply by November 17th! edu.nl/4uyhe @leidenscience.bsky.social

🎹Pianist Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin brings music and science together in Leiden during this concert at the Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden on December 10, 2025! Learn more about the concert: edu.nl/gc7hk, get your tickets: edu.nl/tutnx
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Ik had twee virtuele personages nodig in mijn relativiteitstheorie college: de beroemde waarnemers die ten opzichte van elkaar bewegen. Heb mijn keuzevrijheid gebruikt om onze student-assistenten Rosa en Tim van @leidenphysics.bsky.social een rol in het verhaal te geven. #MinorDeMysterieuzeRealiteit

Now online in journal American Physical Society: 'Unoccupied bands in the molybdenum dichalcogenides MoS2, MoSe2, and MoTe2' by J. Jobst, E.E. Krasovskii, R. Ribeiro, T. A. de Jong, C.R. Dean, R.M. Tromp and @sensevdmolen.bsky.social
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/8hvv...

Repulsions and attractions between membrane-deforming spheres, Janus-particles, and opposite tube-like deformations in giant unilamellar vesicles Lipid membrane deformations have been predicted to lead to indirect forces between the objects that induce these deformations. Recent experimental measurements have found an attractive interaction bet...

🔗 Paper link below if you’d like the details.
doi.org/10.1039/d4sm...

🙌 Thanks to @danielajkraft.bsky.social for brilliant work and guidance, and to @leidenphysics.bsky.social for funding the project. Interested in membrane mechanics or how we perform experiments? Feel free to contact me.

Muurformule merchandise @sensevdmolen.bsky.social 🤩

De #GIREP conferentie over natuurkunde onderwijs wordt dit jaar (deze week) georganiseerd door @leidenphysics.bsky.social. De organisatie vond muurformulemokken een goed idee. Wij ook 😀

GIREP programma:
indico.cern.ch/event/1175859/

The last paper from my PhD is now online! 🥳

👉 pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/arti...

We have designed a new device based on the elastic micropillar array assay to measure the detachment forces between spread cells.

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🐯The #Quantum Safari — an interactive journey that reveals how quantum is already part of our everyday lives, and how much more is possible. This Saturday, we’ll be at the #NachtvanOntdekkingen at the Oude Sterrewacht in #Leiden, starting from 7 PM @leidenscience.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

📢 The House of Quantum in #Leiden has officially opened! At LION, we are very proud to host this first location of the HoQ outside of Delft! This new hub brings #quantum to the health, bio- and med-tech sector at the Bio Science Park! @leidenscience.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social edu.nl/aq6fa
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LION Science Day 2025! Our annual first event of the new academic year: welcoming our first-year master's students and new #PhD's and #Postdocs to our institute by highlighting the newest research and socializing.
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📢Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) is #hiring a faculty member in experimental quantum physics (tenure-track, Asst. Prof. level, higher possible). Join us in exploring the limits of #quantummechanics! Apply by Oct 5, 2025 👉 edu.nl/hyt88

Lorentzmedaille

Charles Kane

De KNAW kent dit jaar de 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘇𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 toe aan een van de belangrijkste natuurkundigen van onze tijd: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗲, hoogleraar aan de University of Pennsylvania @upenn.edu. Alle info hier --> knaw.nl/nieuws/loren...
C#kwantumfysica #QuantumPhysics

Lorentz Medal is awarded to professor Charles Kane of @upenn.edu on the 11th of December 2025, Robbert Dijkgraaf
(@knaw-nl.bsky.social) will hand over this prestigious award for theoretical physics during our Symposium '100 Years of Spin'. Read more: edu.nl/aycdg

#Activematter research by Marine Le Blay, Joshua Saldi & Alexandre Morin from @unileiden.bsky.social published in @natphys.nature.com ! Read more: edu.nl/btmta. @leidenscience.bsky.social #physics

📢 More than 7 million views worldwide: A material that gets shorter when you pull it (and why that’s useful) by #phyics Professor Martin van Hecke of @unileiden.bsky.social, @amolf-nl.bsky.social and @arcnl.bsky.social. See video: edu.nl/yjkte. @leidenscience.bsky.social

A Dutch-American #physicist team have discovered a new route toward what could be the first-ever measurement of #ultralight #darkmatter. They suspended a microscopic magnet inside a #superconducting enclosure, cooled to near 0 Kelvin. t.ly/VHe0h
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The 5-day conference on Physics Education #GIREP was officially opened today by @sensevdmolen.bsky.social, scientific director Leiden Institute of Physics and Roeland van der Rijst of ICLON Universiteit Leiden!

Leiden physicist Vincent Koeman answered children's science questions during the Klokhuis-vragendag 2025! 'They had great questions!', says Koeman. 'From questions about magnetic trains to the formation of whirlpools.'
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#ScienceWonders by Stichting Rino: 500 primary school children learned about #Astronomy, #DrugDevelopment, and #Technology. The grand finale was the spectacular RINO Experiment Battle! This is how kids get excited about science 🎉. @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

🎉 KIEM Grant voor @juliacramer.bsky.social 💵!
Met hoogleraar Vanessa Mak van de Leiden Law School start Julia een interdisciplinair project: ‘Law and Entanglement: exploring the legal implications of #quantum applications in the consumer market’.
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Celebrating 450 years of research at @unileiden.bsky.social University, #detijdvooruit!
📷 Today we show "Then & Now #2", featuring #quantum materials research. Read more: t.ly/paJI_

🧑‍🎓 ‘Doing a #PhD in experimental physics is never boring!’ How Guido Stam built a microscope that can measure bacteria without causing harm!’ Read more t.ly/UenTl
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🏆 Thanks to a €4.8 million grant from the NWO (Dutch Research Council), a consortium will develop a national facility for atomic-scale research into novel materials. Read more: t.ly/O7pcx
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🎓New professor! We are very proud to announce the appointment of Alessandra Silvestri as #Professor of Theoretical #Physics in the area of #Cosmology. For Alessandra, this promotion in Leiden is 'the icing on the cake' – though far from the final chapter: t.ly/uB4p3

Dit weekend stonden we stil bij 80 jaar vrijheid in Nederland: LION herdenkt vandaag twee slachtoffers van #WOII.
🕯️Arie Bijl, theoretisch natuurkundige, 37 jaar.
🕯️Henri Roos, student instrumentmaker, 22 jaar oud
#4en5mei @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

Quantum Leiden celebrated World Quantum Day in Enschede 🎉 Leiden researcher Evert van Nieuwenburg
stressed the importance of games to learn complex quantumtechnology: for example by using Quantum Fish Blocksphere or Quantum Tic Tac Toe #IYQ2025 #quantum #physics Try it yourself: tiqtaqtoe.com

#Fysica2025 is van start in #Leiden!
#quantum #neutrino #TiqTacToe, #keynote, Young Speakers Contest, Natuurkundedocent van het jaar 2025, HBO Jong Talentprijs, Physica prize winner, Focus sessions, #Nobel prize lecture. Veel plezier aan allen! @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

🎉Een #natuurkunde #minor voor studenten van alle academische opleidingen. De mysterieuze realiteit: #quantummechanica, #oerknal en #relativiteitstheorie ontrafeld voor iedereen. Vertel het door!
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🏆Liru Feng wins LION Image Award 2025! His photo titled 'Entangled Fate: From Fluid to Rigid' was awarded best research image of the year.
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