Leiden Institute of Physics
LightNews LightNews
leidenphysics.bsky.social
Leiden Institute of Physics
@leidenphysics.bsky.social
150 followers 390 following 36 posts
Foundational and curiosity-driven physics research and education
Posts Replies Media Videos
leidenphysics.bsky.social
Quantum theatershow voor 1600 Amsterdamse basisschoolkinderen, mede ontwikkeld door Michiel Thijssen van #Quantum Delta Leiden. Hét educatieproject van Editie 14 #Amsterdam Lights Festival.
November 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
🎉 NWO Vidi grant for Bas Hensen and Evert van Nieuwenburg! These two physicists will continue their research on🧲Levitated magnets with a twist and a spin: towards macroscopic quantum superpositions and 🎮Formal games for solving hard quantum control problems. @leidenscience.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher vacancy
Are you interested in research at the intersection of ML and quantum sciences? How about working with Anna Dawid at LIACS and the LeidenPhysics.bsky.social. Apply by November 17th! edu.nl/4uyhe @leidenscience.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
🎹Pianist Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin brings music and science together in Leiden during this concert at the Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden on December 10, 2025! Learn more about the concert: edu.nl/gc7hk, get your tickets: edu.nl/tutnx
@sensevdmolen.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Reposted by Leiden Institute of Physics
ivovanvulpen.bsky.social
Ik had twee virtuele personages nodig in mijn relativiteitstheorie college: de beroemde waarnemers die ten opzichte van elkaar bewegen. Heb mijn keuzevrijheid gebruikt om onze student-assistenten Rosa en Tim van @leidenphysics.bsky.social een rol in het verhaal te geven. #MinorDeMysterieuzeRealiteit
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
Now online in journal American Physical Society: 'Unoccupied bands in the molybdenum dichalcogenides MoS2, MoSe2, and MoTe2' by J. Jobst, E.E. Krasovskii, R. Ribeiro, T. A. de Jong, C.R. Dean, R.M. Tromp and @sensevdmolen.bsky.social
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/8hvv...
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Reposted by Leiden Institute of Physics
azadbakht.bsky.social
🔗 Paper link below if you’d like the details.
doi.org/10.1039/d4sm...

🙌 Thanks to @danielajkraft.bsky.social for brilliant work and guidance, and to @leidenphysics.bsky.social for funding the project. Interested in membrane mechanics or how we perform experiments? Feel free to contact me.
Repulsions and attractions between membrane-deforming spheres, Janus-particles, and opposite tube-like deformations in giant unilamellar vesicles
Lipid membrane deformations have been predicted to lead to indirect forces between the objects that induce these deformations. Recent experimental measurements have found an attractive interaction bet...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Reposted by Leiden Institute of Physics
ivovanvulpen.bsky.social
Muurformule merchandise @sensevdmolen.bsky.social 🤩

De #GIREP conferentie over natuurkunde onderwijs wordt dit jaar (deze week) georganiseerd door @leidenphysics.bsky.social. De organisatie vond muurformulemokken een goed idee. Wij ook 😀

GIREP programma:
indico.cern.ch/event/1175859/
July 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Reposted by Leiden Institute of Physics
juliaeckert.bsky.social
The last paper from my PhD is now online! 🥳

👉 pubs.aip.org/aip/rsi/arti...

We have designed a new device based on the elastic micropillar array assay to measure the detachment forces between spread cells.

@leidenphysics.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
🐯The #Quantum Safari — an interactive journey that reveals how quantum is already part of our everyday lives, and how much more is possible. This Saturday, we’ll be at the #NachtvanOntdekkingen at the Oude Sterrewacht in #Leiden, starting from 7 PM @leidenscience.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
📢 The House of Quantum in #Leiden has officially opened! At LION, we are very proud to host this first location of the HoQ outside of Delft! This new hub brings #quantum to the health, bio- and med-tech sector at the Bio Science Park! @leidenscience.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social edu.nl/aq6fa
.
September 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
LION Science Day 2025! Our annual first event of the new academic year: welcoming our first-year master's students and new #PhD's and #Postdocs to our institute by highlighting the newest research and socializing.
@unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social @sensevdmolen.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
📢Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) is #hiring a faculty member in experimental quantum physics (tenure-track, Asst. Prof. level, higher possible). Join us in exploring the limits of #quantummechanics! Apply by Oct 5, 2025 👉 edu.nl/hyt88
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Reposted by Leiden Institute of Physics
knaw-nl.bsky.social
De KNAW kent dit jaar de 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘇𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 toe aan een van de belangrijkste natuurkundigen van onze tijd: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗲, hoogleraar aan de University of Pennsylvania @upenn.edu. Alle info hier --> knaw.nl/nieuws/loren...
C#kwantumfysica #QuantumPhysics
Lorentzmedaille Charles Kane
September 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
Lorentz Medal is awarded to professor Charles Kane of @upenn.edu on the 11th of December 2025, Robbert Dijkgraaf
(@knaw-nl.bsky.social) will hand over this prestigious award for theoretical physics during our Symposium '100 Years of Spin'. Read more: edu.nl/aycdg
September 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
#Activematter research by Marine Le Blay, Joshua Saldi & Alexandre Morin from @unileiden.bsky.social published in @natphys.nature.com ! Read more: edu.nl/btmta. @leidenscience.bsky.social #physics
August 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
📢 More than 7 million views worldwide: A material that gets shorter when you pull it (and why that’s useful) by #phyics Professor Martin van Hecke of @unileiden.bsky.social, @amolf-nl.bsky.social and @arcnl.bsky.social. See video: edu.nl/yjkte. @leidenscience.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
A Dutch-American #physicist team have discovered a new route toward what could be the first-ever measurement of #ultralight #darkmatter. They suspended a microscopic magnet inside a #superconducting enclosure, cooled to near 0 Kelvin. t.ly/VHe0h
@unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
The 5-day conference on Physics Education #GIREP was officially opened today by @sensevdmolen.bsky.social, scientific director Leiden Institute of Physics and Roeland van der Rijst of ICLON Universiteit Leiden!
June 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
Leiden physicist Vincent Koeman answered children's science questions during the Klokhuis-vragendag 2025! 'They had great questions!', says Koeman. 'From questions about magnetic trains to the formation of whirlpools.'
@hetklokhuis.bsky.social @juliacramer.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
#ScienceWonders by Stichting Rino: 500 primary school children learned about #Astronomy, #DrugDevelopment, and #Technology. The grand finale was the spectacular RINO Experiment Battle! This is how kids get excited about science 🎉. @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
🎉 KIEM Grant voor @juliacramer.bsky.social 💵!
Met hoogleraar Vanessa Mak van de Leiden Law School start Julia een interdisciplinair project: ‘Law and Entanglement: exploring the legal implications of #quantum applications in the consumer market’.
@unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
Celebrating 450 years of research at @unileiden.bsky.social University, #detijdvooruit!
📷 Today we show "Then & Now #2", featuring #quantum materials research. Read more: t.ly/paJI_
June 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
🧑‍🎓 ‘Doing a #PhD in experimental physics is never boring!’ How Guido Stam built a microscope that can measure bacteria without causing harm!’ Read more t.ly/UenTl
@sensevdmolen.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
leidenphysics.bsky.social
🏆 Thanks to a €4.8 million grant from the NWO (Dutch Research Council), a consortium will develop a national facility for atomic-scale research into novel materials. Read more: t.ly/O7pcx
@sensevdmolen.bsky.social @semontis.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM