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Poster Award 2025
Congratulations to Christiane Mayer, Johannes Wüthrich and Jona Motta for winning the prizes for the best posters of the institute!
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Zurich Instruments Award: Congratulations to Julia Küspert
for winning the Zurich Instruments Award 2025 for the best experimental PhD thesis on 'Competing States in the Unconventional Superconductor La2-xSrxCuO4'
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Rediscovering Forgotten Neutrino Data: Shedding New Light on the Hadronisation Mechanism
High-energy neutrino data, collected by the Big European Bubble Chamber at CERN back in 1982, can play a surprising new role in understanding how pions are created. These long-overlooked measurements from neutrino-nucleon collisions can now help to study hadronisation — the process by which quarks and gluons transform into bound states such as pions. This advancement was made possible by our new precision calculations for identified hadron production.
Publication by the group Gehrmann: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/rr84-wlt3
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Soluyanov Prize: Congratulations to Haojie Geng
for winning the Soluyanov Prize 2025 for the best theoretical master thesis on 'The shapes of low mass galaxies at z>6 in FIREbox HR simulation'
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Dectris Prize: Congratulations to Andrej Maraffio
for winning the Dectris Prize 2025 for the best experimental master thesis on 'Simulations and experimental tests for preparing the muCool 2024 beamtime'
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Open Day 2025, 18 & 21 November
Exhibition of research posters in the mechanical workshop and in the Lichthof
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BRIDGE Discovery Grant for Nicola Serra and Alessio Figalli
Funded by a BRIDGE Discovery Grant, UZH physicist Nicola Serra and ETH mathematician and Fields Medalist Alessio Figalli plan to pair optimal transport theory with AI to fortify supply-chain weak spots. See UZH News article .
This map shows a typical day in our Swiss logistics simulation, where trucks connect warehouses across the country. It illustrates how our BRIDGE project uses AI to make supply chains more reliable, efficient, and resilient to disruptions.
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Johan Chang: New publication in Nature Physics
on the impact of low-energy spin fluctuations on the strange metal in a cuprate superconductor.
It was investigate how the strange metal phase of La2-xSrxCuO4 is impacted by a field-induced glassy antiferromagnetic state. Strange metals exhibit unusual properties such as a resistivity that scales linearly with temperature. It was found that the transport properties of the strange metal phase are closely linked to low-energy magnetic fluctuations that persist at
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Congratulations to Florencia Canelli
UZH professor Florencia Canelli was selected to become a American Physical Society Fellow “For distinguished leadership in physics at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and for significant contributions to the study of the top quark at the Large Hadron Collider and at the Tevatron at Fermilab. ”
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Congratulations to Chiara Savoini
for winning the CHIPP PhD prize 2025 for her work on precision measurements for top quarks.
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Congratulations to Marc Janoschek
Marc Janoschek, UZH professor and head of the PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, was selected to become a American Physical Society Fellow “For groundbreaking contributions to revealing and understanding quantum states of strongly correlated materials through the innovative development and application of neutron-scattering techniques.”
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New fundamental physics at the Bedretto Lab
Björn Penning leads a new research initiative to establish a fundamental physics laboratory at ETH’s BedrettoLab. Situated up to 1.5 kilometers beneath the surface in solid granite, the BedrettoLab offers ideal conditions to study fundamental physics. In this interview, Björn shares what makes the BedrettoLab so well suited for this research and outlines the scientific questions he hopes to investigate there.
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First result from Superconducting Dark Matter Detector
Superconducting sensors can detect single low-energy photons. Researchers with leading contributions from groups from our institute (Schilling, Baudis, Penning, Neupert) have used this capability in a dark matter experiment (QROCODILE) and published first results in PRL.
PRL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/highlights
Physics Magazine: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s104
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Quantum Century Ausstellung
IIn der UZH Bibliothek Naturwissenschaften, Campus Irchel
Öffnungszeiten: Montag-Freitag 9:00-17:00
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Solstice of Foundations
Summer school on Quantum Foundations, 16-20 June 2025 @ University of Zurich
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Start des ACES-Experiments der ESA
ultrapräzise Atomuhren im Weltraum werden Albert Einsteins allgemeine Relativitätstheorie testen. Bei ACES dabei ist die Gruppe von Philippe Jetzer.
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Glückwunsch an Laura Baudis, die in die U.S. National Academy of Sciences gewählt wurde
Die National Academy of Sciences wählte Laura Baudis in Anerkennung ihrer herausragenden und kontinuierlichen Leistungen in der Grundlagenforschung.
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The LHC experiment collaborations at CERN receive Breakthrough Prize
The prize was awarded to the collaborations for their “detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the discovery of new strongly interacting particles, the study of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”.
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Zürich und die Geburt der Quantenmechanik
Artikel über das Leben und die Forschung von Wolfgang Pauli und Gregor Wentzel in den 1920er Jahren
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Gina Gibson: Artist-in-residence
Gina Gibson ist bildende Künstlerin und Professorin für digitale Kommunikation an der Black Hills State University (US).
Gina ist Gastprofessorin und Artist-in-Residence am Physik-Instituts. Während ihres Aufenthalts wird sie mit Forschenden zusammenarbeiten, und Kunst schaffen, die sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft auseinandersetzt und die Überschneidung von Kunst und Physik erforscht.
Ihre Arbeiten sind derzeit in der Ausstellung UZHN/EARTH im Science Pavilion UZH zu sehen.
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Welcome Professor Nigel Glover
Prof. Dr. Nigel Glover, professor for theoretical particle physics at the Durham University joins the group of Thomas Gehrmann as a guest professor.
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Small But Mighty: TESSERACT Joins the Hunt for Dark Matter
Using super-sensitive detectors smaller than a stamp, a new experiment is searching for dark matter at masses no other experiment has explored.
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Guest Professor Matthias Neubert
Prof. Dr. Matthias Neubert, professor for theoretical particle physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz joins the group of Gino Isidori as a guest professor.
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Fabian Natterer
Glückwunsch zur Beförderung zum ausserordentlichen Professor für Quantenmaterialien und Sensorik
Weiterführende Informationen
- 11/25 Zurich Instruments Award for Julia Küspert
- 11/25 Publication of Gehrmann group on Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering
- 11/25 Dectris Prize für Andrej Maraffio
- 11/25 Soluyanov Prize für Haojie Geng
- 11/25 Nico Serra: Bridge Discovery Grant
- 10/25 Johan Chang: Publication in Nature Physics
- 10/25 Marc Janoschek: American Physical Society Fellow
- 10/25 Florencia Canelli: American Physical Society Fellow
- 10/25 Chiara Savoini gewinnt den CHIPP PhD Preis 2025
- 09/25 New Fundamental Physics Laboratory at the BedrettoLab
- 05/25 Quantum Century Ausstellung
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Poster Award
Congratulations to Christiane Mayer, Johannes Wüthrich and Jona Motta for winning the awards for the best posters of the institute
- Poster Award 2025
- Zurich Instruments Award
- Neutrino Data
- Soluyanov Prize
- Dectris Prize
- Open Day 2025
- Bridge grant
- Johan Chang: New publication in Nature Physics
- First result from Superconducting Dark Matter Detector
- Quantum Century Ausstellung
- Solstice of Foundations
- Quantum Computing Summer School
- Launch of ACES
- Congratulations to Laura Baudis
- Breakthrough prize 2025
- Dark sirens singing about dark energy
- Gina Gibson: Artist-in-residence
- Guest Professor Nigel Glover
- Small But Mighty: TESSERACT Joins the Hunt for Dark Matter
- Guest Professor Matthias Neubert
- Fabian Natterer