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Particle laboratory CERN in Geneva has been a source of discoveries since 1954, and it is also a magnet for researchers. Jos Engelen, former director of Nikhef and…

Leon Verreijt of the Augustinianum in Eindhoven has won the KNAW Education Prize 2024 for his school research project for which he built – partly at Nikhef –…

Master’s student in theoretical physics Eva Groenendijk of Nikhef and the University of Amsterdam spent over two months in Rome on a work grant for her research. She…

In the latest edition of PAPERCLIP, Nikhef master student Heleen Mulder (Theory) explains what her masters thesis ‘Scrutinizing the CKM anomaly within SMEFT and using sterile neutrinos’ is…

Nikhef master’s student Jaime del Palacio Lirola won first prize for his poster “What the f_0(980)?!” at the DRSTP Trends in Theory symposium last week. In this PAPERCLIP…

Nikhef PhD student Peter Gaemers (XENON/Dark Matter) explains his PhD thesis “Electronic Recoils in XENONnT” in this most recent  PAPERCLIP video. More information about his defense and his…

The Volkskrant interviewed Sascha Caron of Nikhef and Radboud University in Nijmegen about the rise of artificial intelligence in fundamental physics (in Dutch). The specialists recently met at…

The Parool interviewed (in Dutch) PhD student and ATLAS researcher Dylan van Arneman of Nikhef and the UvA at CERN in Geneva about his work and life.

Nikhef director Stan Bentvelsen was a guest on the radio program Spijkers met Koppen on Saturday, April 13, to talk about the Einstein Telescope plans, but of course…

Nikhef PhD student Rahul Balasubramanian explains his thesis “Effectively going beyond the Standard Model. Combined interpretations of Higgs boson and electroweak measurements with the ATLAS experiment” in this…

Einstein Telescope is verbindend voorbeeld op docentendag

Nikhef dark matter researchers are featured in a new New Scientist paperback by science journalist Dorine Schenk. His interviews included Patrick Decowski, Auke-Pieter Colijn and Tina Pollmann for…

In the temporary exhibition Dichterbij het Zwarte Gat (Closer to the Black Hole), Museum Boerhaave in Leiden shows the wonderful world of the black hole. From the earliest…

On 12 March 2024, a masterclass in particle physics took place at Nikhef in an international context. Fifteen upper secondary school students were given the opportunity to learn…

Netherlands wants to bring giant underground telescope to Limburg – The experimental Einstein Telescope can measure gravitational waves, intended for the study of the universe. Black holes, the…

On Thursday 29 February, the Nikhef building in Amsterdam was festively reopened by NWO board chairman Marcel Levi. For this, he did a live particle experiment that ended…

Every month, Sophie Schot and former Nikhef PhD student Bob Stienen make a podcast in which they let a researcher at Radboud University speak. The topics cover the…

The journal Nature Communications interviewed ATLAS researcher Flavia de Almeida Dias from Nikhef about her work and academic life.

Nikhef’s IT architect, Tristan Suerink, recently has twice been a guest on tech podcasts. There he explains what Nikhef does, but especially why computers have such an important…

There are no technical or scientific show-stoppers to a new larger particle accelerator at CERN. So writes the scientific journal Nature this week about the mid-term review of…