Marcel Mudrich has joined the Department as an Associate Professor in Experimental AMO Physics on January 1, 2017

For the first time spectroscopic measurements on the anti-hydrogen atom have succeeded. The importants results are obtained at CERN's ALPHA-2 research…

If you are interested in applying for a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) in September 2017 and you are keen to have the…

You may not usually hear the Angels sing in Fysisk Kantine, but yesterday on December 14th they did.

IFA reserarchers Christina Kjær, Bjarke Pedersen, Mark Stockett and Steen Brøndsted Nielsen has reached a further step in isolating the chlorophyll…

Bernadette Rosati has joined the group of Henrik B. Pedersen as a postdoctoral fellow in November 2016.

Andreas Bock Michelsen won the finals in the competition for "Best Bachelor 2016" sponsored by the Copenhagen company Accenture. Andreas' entry was…

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Kuldeep Verma has joined the Stellar Astrophysics Centre on 1 October 2016

Molecule takes selfie!

An international group of researchers, including Oriol Vendrell of IFA, has developed a method enabling individual atoms in a…

In a recent paper in Nature Communications a group of researchers at IFA led by Nikolaj Zinner describes a novel way of constructing a transistor…

The VILLUM FOUNDATION has awarded a grant of DKK 3.8 million to Associate Professor Max Stritzinger, Department of Physics and Astronomy, to support…

Sanjoy Kr. Mahatha joined the group of Philip Hofmann and Jill Miwa as a postdoctoral researcher on 1 September 2016

Martha Scheffler joined the group of Liv Hornekær on 1 September as a postdoctoral researcher

Kevin Guilloy joined the group of Jill Miwa and Philip Hofmann as postdoctoral researcher on 1 September 2016

Andreas Naesby joined the group of Aurelien Dantan as a postdoctoral researcher on the 15th of August. He will work on developing new…

Put some cold atoms in a closed magnetic 'bucket' - count how many you have, throw away the excess - and do it again and again with the same number of…

To date, more than 150,000 players have solved puzzles in a virtual universe, ScienceAtHome, to help researchers take steps towards the creation of a…

While the more than 5 meter long Greenland shark is one of the world's largest sharks, it is also one of the least understood animals on our planet.…

Kåre Iversen is employed at the Department of Physics and Astronomy (IFA) as of 1 September to work with the design of the neutron instrument HEIMDAL,…

New experiment in supercooled Bose-Einstein-condensate opens possibilities of totally new parallel technology.

A group of researchers at the…

In July Nathan L. Harshman has joined the Department as visiting Associate Professor, where he will be working with the Nikolaj Zinner group.

Oriol Vendrell joins the Department as an Associate Professor in Theoretical Molecular Physics from July 1, 2016

The funding will be used to hire a postdoc for 2 years. A description of the project "On-chip electro-opto-mechanical platforms" is given below.

Lukas Buchmann, IFA et al. suggest a new type of synodyne detection system that may reduce the noise from back-action in quantum mechanical…

The funding will be used to hire a postdoc for 2 years. A description of the project is given below.

After a recommendation from IFA's management and St' Head of Faculty, the Rector has appointed Thomas Tauris, University of Bonn, with the title of…

The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) has awarded a grant of 7.053.972 DKK to Associate Professor Jill Miwa from the Sapere Aude…

An international group of astrophysicists from the universities of Birmingham, Aarhus, Paris, Padua, San Diego and from Mt Stromlo Observatory in…

The Danish National Research Foundation has awarded a grant of DKK 30 million to enable Thomas Pohl from the Max Planck Institute to take up a Niels…

The Carlsberg Foundation has just awarded ten Semper Ardens grants for a total sum of 117 million DKK. Aarhus University receives six grants of which…

A list of researchers a.o. from Aarhus University has recently been published

The core of the Earth is years younger than the surface. We knew that from Einsteins general theory of relativity, but a thorough recalculation shows…

Today, people of all backgrounds can contribute to solving serious scientific problems by playing computer games. A research group from IFA has…

Coming too close to the fire will get your fingers burnt. This old adage is also valid for exoplanets orbiting remote stars. Mia S. Lundkvist and a…

Frank Daugaard has joined the Support Group as new Electrical Engineer on April 1st 2016.

It happened in 1859. It almost happened in 2012. It will happen again: The Sun erupts in an enormous flare with a potential to destroy the…

Jacobus Andreas Swartz joined the group of Hans Otto Uldall Fynbo on 1 March 2016 as a postdoctoral researcher.

It is again possible to register for the AU mentor scheme Empower Talent!

Jens Mikkel Lose Nielsen has joined the Support Group as new electronic technician apprentice on January 18th 2016.

The Aarhus physicist finds new knowledge between the largest stars and the smallest atoms, and she is working on developing technology that can…

Three PhD students at Science and Technology have been awarded travel grants of DKK 200,000 each in the 2016 EliteForsk (Elite Research) awards. Among…

Jonathan Satchell joined the CODER group as Design Director for the ScienceAtHome project on February 4th, 2016.

Juan Omiste joined the group of Lars Bojer Madsen on 1st February 2016.

Researchers David Field and Andrew Cassidy at IFA in collaboration with the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland solve an old dilemma in stellar…

If you are interested in applying for a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) with our department as host, then we would be happy to…

Alberto Imparato et. at. show experimentally in a new paper in Physical Review Letters that heat might flow backwards from a cold souce to a hot.