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Nikhef PhD student Greta Brianti from the University of Twente is conducting research with the ATLAS detector at CERN into the decay of Higgs particles into b and…

Nikhef PhD candidate Carolina da Silva Bolognani studies the decay of particles via the weak interaction into other particles. In this process, particles change their “flavour”, as physicists…

Nikhef is one of the leading names in computing in the Netherlands, with expertise and extensive hardware in numerous projects, from networks and supercomputers to artificial intelligence clusters….

PhD candidate Clara Gatius from Nikhef used the KM3NeT neutrino detector at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea to search for dark matter. Spoiler alert: she didn’t succeed,…

PhD candidate and Nikhef engineer Jesse van Dongen spent four years working on recipes for vibration-free mounting of the mirrors used in gravitational wave detectors. Noise suppression is…

Data network architect Tristan Suerink from Nikhef (not pictured) was a guest on the ICT podcast Met Nerds om Tafel to discuss ColoClue, an association of enthusiastic server…

Neutrinos are elementary particles that are almost impossible to capture. But when they collide, they do make a sound. With an NWO-grant Nikhef researcher Ernst-Jan Buis is going…

How do gravitational wave researchers detect the subtle vibrations of space and time among all the vibrations in the environment? By creating sample signals of what they are…

‘Europe expert’ Geert Jan Hahn spoke at Nikhef with Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, CEO of Einstein Telescope in the Netherlands. He hopes to raise €2.4 billion next year to increase…

Last Saturday, 4 October, the annual Science Day took place at Amsterdam Science Park — and once again it was a great success. Nikhef opened its doors to…

Nikhef/UvA experimental astroparticle physicist Auke Pieter Colijn this week was the fifth guest in the NPO Radio1 night programmes Back to School with NTR Wetenschap. In a two-hour…

In a new, third season of BNR radio podcast In de Diepte Nikhef researcher Ivo van Vulpen takes listeners to the heart of matter itself. In five episodes…

In a new Nikhef PAPERCLIP video, PhD candidate Roberto Russo (Detector R&D) explains his PhD research in three minutes. He investigated whether CMOS sensors, similar to those used…

The Dutch edition of New Scientist interviewed Nikhef researcher Tina Pollmann from the University of Amsterdam (in Dutch) about the hunt for dark matter with the Xenon experiment in…

Collaboration is one of the key ingredients of working at Nikhef. We spoke to 8 Nikheffers about the special collaborations between the different departments at Nikhef and examples…

In the latest issue of the Dutch Journal of Physics, five Nikhef authors give their views on the magazine’s theme: Misunderstood Physics. In its June issue, the Dutch…

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Nikhef partnership, Nikhef engineer Marco Kraan made a series of fifteen short videos explaining the history of the institute and highlighting…

The film Spacetime, the era of gravitational waves was named best scientific film at the Cannes World Film Festival. The documentary was commissioned by the Dutch Black Hole…

Nikhef researcher Marcel Merk (LHCb) was a guest on Brainwave, a radio programme at Yoursafe Radio, Giel Beelen’s new radio station. Brainwave is a show that gets listeners…

In the ‘Depict your research competition’ of the Dutch Journal of Physics (NTvN), Nikhef researcher Kelly Weerman won the encouragement prize. Weerman depicted her PhD research on neutrinos…