The international network of the LIGO (Verenigde Staten), Virgo (Italië) and KAGRA (Japan) gravitational-wave observatories just announced the detection of their 200th candidate gravitational wave signal in this…
Last year, the board of the Olga Igonkina Foundation decided to award the Olga Igonkina Scholarships 2024 to master’s students Anna Lewicki and Sergei Solokhin. The award was…
A team of six PhD students and six postdocs is starting to work on improving the design of the Einstein Telescope. The aim is to work towards a…
For the development of a special kind of sensor, the Nikhef R&D (Research & Development) group has received a grant from Holland High Tech of almost 700,000 euros….
The KM3NeT Collaboration announces the detection from the abyss of the Mediterranean Sea of a cosmic neutrino with a record-breaking energy of about 220 PeV An extraordinary event…
To our great sorrow, we received the sad news of the passing of Paul Kuijer. Although Paul had been retired for a number of months, he was undiminishedly…
Management and staff of the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef wish you a prosperous 2025. Due to Christmas and New Year, the institute will be closed from…
Three Nikhef projects receive funding from NWO within the ENW-XL Open Competition. These include the future Einstein Telescope, research into the Higgs boson and research into the universe….
At the most recent meeting of the KM3NeT collaboration, a new management team was elected for the next two years, including two Nikhef researchers. Together with the new…
The latest issue of DIMENSIES is all about change. This issue features Stan Bentvelsen, who has been at the helm of the Nikhef partnership for the past ten…
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2024 Consolidator Grants to 328 researchers across Europe. These grants, totalling €678 million, aim to support outstanding scientists and scholars…
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world-wide largest cosmic ray detector covering an area of 3000 km². It is operated by a collaboration of more than 400 scientists…
Nikhef researcher Bjarni Pont, postdoc in the Cosmic Radiation (Auger) group is one of three people to have received the Auger Impact award this year. The Auger Impact…
Young researchers Enzo Tapia San Martín (researcher at gravitational waves group at Nikhef) and Mattia Boldrini (researcher at the Roma section of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear…
The Higgs field – an invisible quantum field that permeates the entire Universe – gives masses to fundamental particles. The discovery of the Higgs boson confirmed its existence…
Professor Thomson’s five-year mandate will begin on 1 January 2026. Today, the CERN Council selected British physicist Mark Thomson as the Organization’s next Director-General. The appointment will be…
On 1 November, Jorgen D’Hondt officially starts as director of Nikhef. In doing so, he succeeds Stan Bentvelsen, whose second term as director is now coming to an…
Nikhef spinoff company Innoseis delivered prototypes of highly sensitive seismic sensors to Australia’s Fleet Space Technologies last August. That company will thoroughly test the sensors in preparation for…
The aim of the third update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics is to develop a visionary and concrete plan that greatly advances human knowledge in fundamental…
The Swiss National Research Council (FNS) has awarded a CHF1.250M grant to a team composed by Prof. Dr. Anna Sfyrla (Universite de Geneve) and Nikhef researcher Prof. Dr….
