The AIAS Associate Fellowship Program, starts at AU on 1st April 2021.

On Sunday 14 March 2021 our Aarhus University student CubeSat Delphini-1 finally decayed into the deeper atmosphere and met it's honourable fiery end.

The Danish Students CubeSat Program DISCO will, in collaboration with the Danish company Space Inventor, launch its first satellite on a Falcon-9 rocket in the Summer of 2022. The satellite will include a number of smaller student experiments as well as serve as a communications station for radio amateurs around the world.

A Novo Nordisk project grant of 2 939 940 DKK has been granted Steen Brøndsted in connection to his work at IFA on fluorescent molecules

A Novo Nordisk project grant of 2 710 011 DKK goes to Brian Julsgaard to further the work at IFA of Understanding Semiconductors for Mid-IR Light Emitting Devices

New paper in Nature Physics: A collaboration in the “Center for Complex Quantum Systems” at Aarhus University has successfully observed the formation of a quasiparticle.

We welcome Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui who will join the Simon Wall group working on ultrafast dynamics of quantum materials.

Thomas starts as associate professor in Theoretical Cosmology on March 1st 2021

Welcome to Blazej Jaworowski who will start in Anne E. B. Nielsen´s group “Quantum many-body systems”.

A recent paper in Nano Letters describes a collaboration between researchers in South Korea, Scotland and the Aarhus-group led by Søren Ulstrup.

A new project is using machine learning in an attempt to find materials that can convert CO2 into methanol, and thereby help tackle climate challenges. The research project has received a grant of DKK 7.9 million from the Villum Foundation.

Are you ready to apply now? Next opportunity will be in 2027.

A special exoplanetary system has been described in the latest copy of PNAS, with participation from SAC researchers.

CCQ welcomes Shanshan Ding as a postdoc in Professor Georg Bruun’s group.

Philip Hofman recycles a well known principle in recent paper in Physical Review

Welcome to Yixiao Zhou, who as at 1 February started in a 3-year postdoc position in the iSimba group under Victor Aguirre Børsen-Koch.

Francesco Cappelluti is our new postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Bjørk Hammer

In January 2021, Juan Sánchez-Baena joined the research group of Professor Thomas Pohl as postdoc at the Center for Complex Quantum Systems.

In January 2021, Ragheed Alhyder joined the Center for Complex Quantum Systems where he will be conducting theoretical research in professor Georg Bruun's group.

Daring maneuvre for a possible picture of Denmark from Space

Nanoscientist Mie Andersen has been awarded a Villum Young Investigator grant of DKK 8 mill to study design principles for materials that can convert CO2 into fuels or chemicals to help us tackling climate change and our dependence on fossil fuels.

Guess the Delphini-1 decay date and win a LEGO model

Associate Professor and Emeritus Erik Lægsgaard died on Saturday 16/1/21 at the age of 79.

If you haven’t already noticed, IFA is on Instagram.

The Grendel-Supercomputer operated by CSCAA has been expanded with 96 new computers (nodes).

Our new versatile telescope NOT was looking when the giant planets met.

Fan Yang started as postdoc in December 2020 in Klaus Mølmers group. He will join the Center for Complex Quantum Systems (CCQ), headed by Professor Thomas Pohl.

New instructive animation showing the synchrotron radiation facility of the Department has now been published.

The Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma plays a major role in research by Nordic astronomers, and in the education of new astronomers. It has been doing this for more than 30 years, and it will to continue to do so.

The IFA Mars Group participates in a new research project on mars dust.

ROADMAP (ROle and impAct of Dust and clouds in the Martian AtmosPhere) - a brand new international research program supported by the EC Horizon 2020 has just started with participating groups from Belgium, Germany, Spain and Denmark.

During a routine pass over our SONG observatory in Australia our student satellite reveals a surprise.

As of 1 December 2020 Aarhus University has acquired another astronomical telescope in our "machine park". This time it is an elderly but large instrument with an aperture of 2,56 meter.

In a new paper in Nature, Georg M. Bruun and collaborators from the universities of Heidelberg and Lund has used quantum simulation with cold atoms to explore how a Higgs mode connected to a quantum phase transition from a normal to a superfluid phase emerges particle by particle.

Experiments by Professor Yanhong Xiao and her research team at Fudan University in Shanghai show position and momentum measurement outcomes with a statistical uncertainty below the limits set by the famous Heisenberg uncertainty relation, ?x??p??/2.

From October 15, he starts as professor in theoretical physics

From October 15th, he starts as professor in theoretical professor

Gabi Wenzel is the new postdoc at Center for Interstellar Catalysis (InterCat) headed by Prof. Liv Hornekær

As of 1st October 2020, Anne E. B. Nielsen is employed as Associate Professor of theoretical physics at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy.

Kimberly Hsieh starts as postdoc at Institute of Physics and Astronomy in October 2020.

Ida Haugaard Sørensen is employed as a maternity cover for programme coordinator Mette Alstrup Lie.

Amalie Henderson has been employed as a "squid" at IFA

A recent paper in Physical Review Letters presenting IFA's Cyrille Solaro from professor Michael Drewsen's workgroup as lead author, describes an attempt to fine tune the limits for how much particles constituting the dark matter can influence ordinary matter.

The grant will be used for participation in international conferences on exoplanets

Aleksi Julku has joined Georg Bruun's group since August 2020.

Christoffer Karoff has been appointed Associate Professor

New Electronics Technician Apprentice - Tobias Vallenvig Holmene, started on 1st July 2020

Two working groups in Aarhus and Copenhagen have a recent paper in Angewandte Chemie.