Congratulations to the Teacher of the Year and Instructor of the Year at the Department of Physics and Astronomy!

Søren Ulstrup receives a Villum grant for the project "Ultrafast orbitronics in planar quantum materials"

1st November 2025 Jan Arlt was hired as a Professor of our department

Postdoctoral researcher and IFA alum Mads Lykke Jensen has been awarded 2.201.636 kr. from the Independent Research Fund through the DFF International…

We are pleased to welcome Anne Andresen as our new Special Consultant in AI Development starting February 2026. Anne joins us as part of NAT’s new AI…

Novo Nordisk - Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme 2025 has granted Professor Sune Jespersen 19,450,066 DKK to lead the project

The European Southern Observatory’s new Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) spectrograph has achieved first light on the 3.58-m New Technology Telescope (NTT) at…

The first group of students visit the QTLab

Paper in Physical Review Letter with theoretical insights from IFA

A scientific survery of a collection of 'sibling stars' in the stellar cluster NGC 6630 has shown that the stars are not affected by their own…

Center for Interstellar Catalysis, under Liv Hornekær, has commenced contract negotiations for further four years of funding from the Danish National…

Brian Julsgaard from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded a grant of DKK 2,490,767 by the Villum Foundation for his research…

Go look for these sunlike stars that you can see yourself without telescopes.

As recognition for many years of scientific endeavors in the field of quantum physics.

From 1st September, we have employed Andreas Sindal Stounbjerg as head of department secretariat at Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Last week, the Department of Physics and Astronomy welcomed 66 new bachelor’s students with an exciting and varied introduction program. The week…

Simon Wall has received a 16,597,909 DKK NERD grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Last week, Fysikshow and a handful of physics students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy headed to Smukfest in Skanderborg with one clear…

The band gap of a semiconductor completely specifies its function in electronic devices such as the transistors that make our phones and computers…

Many-body quantum systems with strong interactions are notoriously challenging to solve. However, in rare cases, such systems can behave as if they…

An international group of astronomers with strong Aarhus University representation has tested a new method for measuring the mass of a star, and the…

In a paper published in Nature Communications with Georg Bruun as a co-author, it is shown that mobile particles can be powerful quantum probes for…

A research group at SUSTech has simulated a new type of quantum phase transition and spontaneous symmetry-breaking on a quantum computer, using a…

Professor Emeritus Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard has been appointed by the European Astronomical Society to hold the Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture in…

Two astronomers, Cameron Lemon and Nikki Arendse, from the Swedish Oskar Klein Centre, have produced this video from the Nordic Optical Telescope,…

Collisional secondary ionization is found to be more efficient than the direct process.

In collaboration with a group of researchers from IFA and…

ESAs astrometric satellite Gaia has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet for the first time. The discovery is published on 4 February 2025 in a…

A new paper to-day in Nature Communications based on asteroseismoligy indicates this. IFA's Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard is co-author.

Stine Trolle Elmholdt started 1st. January as Manager of Aarhus SpaCe

The current head of department, Ulrik Uggerhøj, will continue in the position. He will head the development of the department over the coming years.

The Carlsberg Foundation has just awarded 188 scientific activities including grants for Jesper Olsen, Søren Ulstrup and Anders Nygaard

Our department will soon have brand new teaching laboratories with a focus on quantum technology!

An international team of researchers, including Marcel Mudrich from IFA, have made a groundbreaking step in understanding and controlling quantum…

Gianmarco Gatti started as a postdoc in December 2024.

This was established by Karsten Brogaard of AU and a group of international collaborators and published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

As of 1 December, Anne Pilgaard Rasmussen will join us as a postdoc

Former employee and union representative John Kapstadt has passed away

Liv Hornekær has received 4 million euro from The European Research Council to strengthen research into the origin of life in space.

Independent Research Fund Denmark has just awarded DKK 575 million for non-targeted research to 192 excellent new research projects across the main…

Many years of close collaborations on star oscillations granted Hans Kjeldsen the title of Honorary Doctor in Vilnius last week.

Jakob Lysgaard Rørsted started on 1 September as systems developer. He is responsible for the maintenance and development of the IT infrastructure…

Mikkel Lund has been awarded DKK 2 million to support his project titled “Starlight Through the Lens: A New View on Stellar Oscillations”. Mikkel's…

QUBITS is a new seminar series from Quantum Campus Aarhus (QCA) that offers byte-sized, accessible insights into the intriguing world of quantum…

On 1 July, Gesa Siemann starts as a postdoc in Philip Hofmann's group