Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics & Gravity - VSI

10/03/2023

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The University of Groningen is a research university with a global outlook, deeply rooted in Groningen, City of Talent. Quality has been our top priority for over four hundred years, and with success: the University is currently in or around the top 100 on several influential ranking lists.

31/01/2023

PhD position - Experimental physics/Mass measurements for nuclear astrophysics

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student in experimental physics with an interest in studying the properties of exotic nuclei relevant for nuclear astrophysics.

22/12/2022

We have 6 PhD positions available to help us search for an electron EDM.

We use cold molecules to probe fundamental physics - specifically the electron’s electric dipole moment (EDM). We are looking for motivated PhD students with a strong interest the relevant fields of physics. The experiment is set up at the Van Swinderen Institute (VSI) at the University of Groning...

15/03/2022

VSI’s Steven Hoekstra receives a prestigious VICI award!

Congratulations to Jan-Willem Romeijn, Steven Hoekstra and Karina Caputi for receiving three Vici grants each worth 1.5 million euros! 🎉

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded the Vici grants to three researchers of our university. They can use this money to develop an innovative line of research and set up their own research group for a period of five years.

Prof. Romeijn will use the Vici grant to investigate the use of data science methods by using insights from the philosophy of science. The research of Prof. Hoekstra will test the Standard Model of particle physics, by performing a precision measurement on a cloud of molecules, captured and held by electric fields. The project of Prof. Caputi will investigate the first steps of galaxy evolution as it has never been possible before, with the largest space telescope ever built: the James Webb Space Telescope.

Do you want to know more about the projects of the researchers? Click the link down below!👇
https://www.rug.nl/news/2022/03/vici-grants-for-three-ug-researchers?lang=en

20/01/2022

Wanted, postdoc for the NEXT project.

The project NEXT – Neutron-rich EXotic nuclei produced in multi-nucleon Transfer reactions recently received funding through an ERC starting grant. PI of the grant is Julia Even, Associate Professor at the University of Groningen. The project will be embedded within the Van Swinderen Institute for...

16/04/2021

We are looking for an early-career academic who is interested to start a tenure-track that focuses on education and who can strengthen our teaching and research in the field of Computational physics, with connection and applications to particle physics and/or gravity.

We are looking for an early-career academic who is interested to start a tenure-track that focuses on education and who can strengthen our teaching and research in the field of Computational physics, with connection and applications to particle physics and/or gravity. Computational methods play an i...

11/01/2021

Four days left to apply to our PhD vacancies. We have two positions available. One in experimental particle physics, based in Groningen (with the option to work for one year), and one in flavour physics based in Maastricht. https://www.nikhef.nl/en/activities/phd/

08/12/2020

Valt zwaartekracht onder de wetten van kwantummechanica?  Samen met collega’s uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk heeft RUG-natuurkundige Anupam Mazumdar een...

16/02/2020

Our universe should be a formless fog of energy. Why isn’t it?