In a research project titled 'In operando nanoscale spectromicroscopy of two-dimensional heterostructures' the properties of stacked single atom layered crystal are to be studied

Emir Karamehmetoglu joined the supernova group led by Maximilian Stritzinger in the fall of 2019.

His primary research interest is observational studies of core-collapse supernovae

Steen Brøndsted Nielsen has obtained his higher doctoral degree at Aarhus University. His doctoral dissertation investigates the colour of molecules when they are not under the influence of their surroundings. The aim is to develop better fluorescent markers for medical examinations.

Liv Hornekær to lead Center for Interstellar Catalysis

Thomas Pohl to lead Center for Complex Quantum Systems

Ben Lemberger joined Klaus Mølmer's group as a postdoc in the fall of 2019.

Professor Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard co-authors a paper on B-subdwarfs in Nature Astronomy Letters 30. September 2019

Rosana Martinez Turtos has joined the Semiconductor team in the group of Peter Balling from September 2019.

U.S. ARMY RDECOM has granted $ 300 000 for this project to study promising resonance effects between exciton-polaritons

The Villum Experiment Grants seek to reward scientists who question conventional thinking, and thus the idea of exploring the interplay between hot stars and exoplanets with a new spectrograph prototype for a unique nano-satellite missionhas been awarded a grant of DKK 1 960 230,00.

The Villum Experiment Grants seek to reward scientists who question conventional thinking, and thus the idea of building up a cosmography of Laniakea via the distribution of Type Ia supernovae, the peculiar velocities of their host galaxies and Dark Matter distribution has been awarded a grant of DKK 1 993 738,00.

The Villum Experiment Grants seek to reward scientists who question conventional thinking, and thus the idea of "Simulating strongly correlated materials by combining quantum theory with machine learning" has been awarded a grant of DKK 1 930 108,00

Fysikshow er en samling af fysik- og nanostuderende, der arbejder på at udbrede glæden ved naturvidenskab og i særdeleshed ved fysik.

Alberto Imparato and Marc Suñé publish paper in Physical Review Letters 13. August 2019

Names are trickling in, but we hope for a skyburst

A well known astrophotographer has visited Tenerife and has donated a couple of very impressive photos of the Danish SONG telescope.

Filip Johan Arnested has been employed at our department from 1st July 2019 for 3½ years as electronics technician apprentice.

Filip has a degree from The Academy of Music and has a Master’s degree in electronic music.

Laurits is a trained industrial technician and comes from a position at AVK Holding's machine shop.

Laurits mainly does CNC machining of mechanical…

Supernova (SN) 2019bkc/ATLAS19dqr was recently discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and located in what appears to be a “hostless” environment.

IFA is working hard on the preparations to take over the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), which is a telescope in La Palma on the Canary Islands. A delegation from IFA has just visited NOT to plan the process of taking over, and to actually see what we are taking in.

A recent publication in Science reports on the controlled formation of giant molecules.

så kan du også foreslå et navn til Danmarks egen exoplanet og dens stjerne.

The Mars Simulation Laboratory in the dungeons under IFA attracts researcers from all over the Globe and beyond.

From 1st June Mai Korsbæk has been given a permanent position as Administrative Officer at IFA.

You find Marco day and night by ASTRID2

Study of the history of the Milky Way to be strengthened via the appointment 1 April 2019 of a new associate professor.

This year's prestigious award for a young researcher's excellent work in surface physics goes to IFA Post-Doc.

On a highly supportive home turf Martin Hedevang and Kristoffer Kvist ended first among 7 competing teams this Saturday.

In Phys. Rev. Lett. Marcel Mudrich and Mykola Shcherbinin og IFA with an international team describe the elusive formation process of a hydrated electron in water.

Cold atom experiments have revealed a novel interaction between pairs of particles that is mediated by a surrounding quantum gas. Georg Bruun describes the discovery in Nature News and Views.

Professor in nanotechnology and quantum physics Yong P. Chen from Purdue University, Indiana is to establish a significant research program at Aarhus University. The Villum Investigator Program has offered him Dkk 40 million to be used in his research at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

It will happen again, and postdoc Stergios Misios has received DKr 1,9 mill from Villum Fonden to look into what will happen if we are hit by another huge storm in the near future.

Stellar eruption - but this time not in our direction! Illustration: Casey Reed/NASA.

Some 580 young scientists under the age of 35 from 88 countries plus about 30 Nobel Laureates will meet this summer in Lindau, Germany for lectures, Science Walks, Panel Discussions and Master Classes.

After quite some effort and a lot of sleepless nights (literally, as Delphini-1 passes over Aarhus during the night at the moment) we finally took, at least for us, the most beautiful pictures.

The first steps in the process of vision are incredbly fast. A physics group from AU have now solved a decades old riddle of the retinal molecule in a recent paper in Nature Communications of 14 March 2019.

One of 20 EliteForsk travel stipends go to Ph.d. from IFA

The recent copy of Aktuel Naturvidenskab brings a paper by IFA and ISA researchers Søren Pape Møller and Heine Dølrath Thomsen on progress, problems and solutions

The first AU satellite gets a prominent exposure in the recent copy.

Mads Fredslund Andersen, Steallar Astrophysics Centre and in charge of the SONG-telescope onTenerife won the competition, and presents one of the fine results.

Sea foam is not only water and salt

Two of the exoplanets orbiting the star Kepler-107 are twins of size but they are by far of the same mass. Astronomers explain this as a result of a violent collision between two almost similar exoplanets in the far past. New paper in Nature Astronomy Letters of 4. February 2019.

It is Thomas Pohl and Jeffrey Hangst, who are both to receive one of the prestigious "Semper Ardens" grants.

Thanks to the many that attended at Auditorium E last Thursday. We have not yet heard from the satellite, but we are still optimists.

Miguel Bastarrachea is a new postdoc in the group of Georg Bruun, and he joined the group 1 February 2019.

Recent paper in Nature Physics reveals the trick. IFA's Marcel Mudrich and ph.d. Mykola Shcherbinin are co-authors.

Miroslav Gajdacz has joined the team of Science at Home in the group of Jacob Sherson since January 2019.

A well written and thorough presentation of the recent discoveries, a.o. of the double-magic nucleus Sn-132 and of the long term involvement of Danish researchers at the ISOLDE detector at CERN.

S&T is joining a cross disciplinary Space Entrepreneurship Program in collaboration with ESA, The European Space Agency, assuring that our students can participate in subjects within both space technology and entrepeneurship.