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Four young promising scientists from Nikhef receive a Veni grant from NWO. They will receive up to € 320,000 to further develop new research ideas. A total of…

Neutrino researcher Rasa Muller will receive the Kluyver Prize for the best English-language abstract in her dissertation, published in 2023. The award was presented Monday, May 13, at…

Italy’s Virgo gravitational wave detector is officially participating again in the hunt for space-time oscillations since Wednesday afternoon. At 5 p.m. in Pisa, glasses were raised to the…

On May 29, 2023, one of the two U.S. LIGO detectors recorded a gravitational wave with unexpected properties. The source is believed to be a collision of a…

A prototype of the world’s first muon accelerator will be on display at the new Nikhef Expostrip in Amsterdam starting Monday. The large copper component replaces the current…

NWO board chairman Marcel Levi officially reopened the renovated main building of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef in Amsterdam on Thursday afternoon. The Nikhef building, he…

Excavation work for the new DUNE neutrino detector has been completed at a former mine in Lead, South Dakota. More and more, Nikhef is involved in DUNE.  Fermilab…

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam researcher Mara Senghi Soares is national program leader for the LHCb experiment at Nikhef as of Nov. 1. Soares takes over the position from Nikhef…

Nikhef is focusing on projects in subatomic physics where the Dutch contribution can make a difference. This is reflected in the new multi-year strategy published online today. The…

Nikhef physicists at the University of Groningen have developed a technique to capture nanoparticles and characterize their shape and mass. This may be useful for the hunt for…

Effective Sept. 1, Nikhef physicist and vibration expert Alessandro Bertolini has been appointed professor of Gravitational Wave Detection Technologies at Maastricht University. Bertolini, Italian by birth, is considered…

The Virgo detector for gravitational waves in Italy will not yet participate in the fourth round of observations by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra consortium starting end of May. The sensitivity…

The expansion of the XENON experiment at Gran Sasso in Italy is bearing fruit. The larger detector works better than its predecessors. So reports the XENON collaboration today…

Former Nikhef PhD student Brian Moser of Nikhef received an award from the ATLAS Experiment at CERN for his 2022 dissertation The Beauty and the Boost. The prize…

The Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate (EZK) is making 870 thousand euros available for the next four years for the network of liaison officers who bring together…

Management and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a prosperous 2023. Due to Christmas and New Year, the institute will be closed from…

The first 800 Gbit/s router for a super-fast data network at Nikhef arrives at Science Park in Amsterdam this week. Engineers from SURF and Nikhef will set up…

Intersections between scientific fields, between institutions and between science and education are the focus of the latest Nikhef magazine DIMENSIES, which comes out today. “At successful interfaces, new…

A quantum-flavoured milestone in high energy physics: the LHCb collaboration at CERN reports its first quantum computing-related work. In a publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics,…

Three large projects under the Nikhef flag receive NWO funding for research that explicitly pushes the boundaries of current physics. This involves faster detectors, precision measurements on the…