News 2025

Quantum Computing Summer School

Wed, 21 May 2025 13:20:40 GMT

21-25 July 2025 @ University of Zurich, registration is open

Poster Award 2025

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:02:56 GMT

Congratulations to Christiane Mayer, Johannes Wüthrich and Jona Motta for winning the prizes for the best posters of the institute!

Zurich Instruments Award: Congratulations to Julia Küspert

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:05:38 GMT

for winning the Zurich Instruments Award 2025 for the best experimental PhD thesis on 'Competing States in the Unconventional Superconductor La_2-xSr_xCuO₄'

Rediscovering Forgotten Neutrino Data: Shedding New Light on the Hadronisation Mechanism

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:29:07 GMT

High-energy neutrino data, collected by the Big European Bubble Chamber at CERN back in 1982, can play a surprising new role in understanding how pions are created. These long-overlooked measurements from neutrino-nucleon collisions can now help to study hadronisation — the process by which quarks and gluons transform into bound states such as pions. This advancement was made possible by our new precision calculations for identified hadron production.

Publication by the group Gehrmann: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/rr84-wlt3

Soluyanov Prize: Congratulations to Haojie Geng

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:06:37 GMT

for winning the Soluyanov Prize 2025 for the best theoretical master thesis on 'The shapes of low mass galaxies at z>6 in FIREbox HR simulation'

Dectris Prize: Congratulations to Andrej Maraffio

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:06:32 GMT

for winning the Dectris Prize 2025 for the best experimental master thesis on 'Simulations and experimental tests for preparing the muCool 2024 beamtime'

Open Day 2025, 18 & 21 November

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 23:00:00 GMT

Exhibition of research posters in the mechanical workshop and in the Lichthof

BRIDGE Discovery Grant for Nicola Serra and Alessio Figalli

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:40:33 GMT

Funded by a BRIDGE Discovery Grant, UZH physicist Nicola Serra and ETH mathematician and Fields Medalist Alessio Figalli plan to pair optimal transport theory with AI to fortify supply-chain weak spots. See UZH News article .

This map shows a typical day in our Swiss logistics simulation, where trucks connect warehouses across the country. It illustrates how our BRIDGE project uses AI to make supply chains more reliable, efficient, and resilient to disruptions.

Johan Chang: New publication in Nature Physics

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:23:37 GMT

on the impact of low-energy spin fluctuations on the strange metal in a cuprate superconductor.

It was investigate how the strange metal phase of La_2-xSr_xCuO₄ is impacted by a field-induced glassy antiferromagnetic state. Strange metals exhibit unusual properties such as a resistivity that scales linearly with temperature. It was found that the transport properties of the strange metal phase are closely linked to low-energy magnetic fluctuations that persist at
the lowest temperatures.

Publication, DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03034-0

Congratulations to Florencia Canelli

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:59:20 GMT

UZH professor Florencia Canelli was selected to become a American Physical Society Fellow “For distinguished leadership in physics at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and for significant contributions to the study of the top quark at the Large Hadron Collider and at the Tevatron at Fermilab. ”

Congratulations to Chiara Savoini

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:05:58 GMT

for winning the CHIPP PhD prize 2025 for her work on precision measurements for top quarks.
Article on CHIPP news

Congratulations to Marc Janoschek

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:00:00 GMT

Marc Janoschek, UZH professor and head of the PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, was selected to become a American Physical Society Fellow “For groundbreaking contributions to revealing and understanding quantum states of strongly correlated materials through the innovative development and application of neutron-scattering techniques.”

New fundamental physics at the Bedretto Lab

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:03:28 GMT

Björn Penning leads a new research initiative to establish a fundamental physics laboratory at ETH’s BedrettoLab. Situated up to 1.5 kilometers beneath the surface in solid granite, the BedrettoLab offers ideal conditions to study fundamental physics. In this interview, Björn shares what makes the BedrettoLab so well suited for this research and outlines the scientific questions he hopes to investigate there.
Article from Bedretto Lab

First result from Superconducting Dark Matter Detector

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:22:57 GMT

Superconducting sensors can detect single low-energy photons. Researchers with leading contributions from groups from our institute (Schilling, Baudis, Penning, Neupert) have used this capability in a dark matter experiment (QROCODILE) and published first results in PRL.

PRL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/highlights

Physics Magazine: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s104

Quantum Century Ausstellung

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:18:37 GMT

IIn der UZH Bibliothek Naturwissenschaften, Campus Irchel
Öffnungszeiten: Montag-Freitag 9:00-17:00
Mehr

Solstice of Foundations

Wed, 21 May 2025 13:42:52 GMT

Summer school on Quantum Foundations, 16-20 June 2025 @ University of Zurich
https://foundations.squids.ch/

Start des ACES-Experiments der ESA

Tue, 06 May 2025 12:00:16 GMT

ultrapräzise Atomuhren im Weltraum werden Albert Einsteins allgemeine Relativitätstheorie testen. Bei ACES dabei ist die Gruppe von Philippe Jetzer.

UZH News

Glückwunsch an Laura Baudis, die in die U.S. National Academy of Sciences gewählt wurde

Tue, 06 May 2025 11:55:45 GMT

Die National Academy of Sciences wählte Laura Baudis in Anerkennung ihrer herausragenden und kontinuierlichen Leistungen in der Grundlagenforschung.

The LHC experiment collaborations at CERN receive Breakthrough Prize

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:54:34 GMT

The prize was awarded to the collaborations for their “detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the discovery of new strongly interacting particles, the study of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”.

Dark sirens singing about dark energy

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:58:07 GMT

Zürich und die Geburt der Quantenmechanik

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:35:58 GMT

Artikel über das Leben und die Forschung von Wolfgang Pauli und Gregor Wentzel in den 1920er Jahren

Gina Gibson: Artist-in-residence

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Gina Gibson ist bildende Künstlerin und Professorin für digitale Kommunikation an der Black Hills State University (US).

Gina ist Gastprofessorin und Artist-in-Residence am Physik-Instituts. Während ihres Aufenthalts wird sie mit Forschenden zusammenarbeiten, und Kunst schaffen, die sich mit der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft auseinandersetzt und die Überschneidung von Kunst und Physik erforscht.

Ihre Arbeiten sind derzeit in der Ausstellung U_ZHN/EARTH im Science Pavilion UZH zu sehen.

Welcome Professor Nigel Glover

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Prof. Dr. Nigel Glover, professor for theoretical particle physics at the Durham University joins the group of Thomas Gehrmann as a guest professor.

Small But Mighty: TESSERACT Joins the Hunt for Dark Matter

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:41:16 GMT

Using super-sensitive detectors smaller than a stamp, a new experiment is searching for dark matter at masses no other experiment has explored.

Guest Professor Matthias Neubert

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Prof. Dr. Matthias Neubert, professor for theoretical particle physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz joins the group of Gino Isidori as a guest professor.

Fabian Natterer

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Glückwunsch zur Beförderung zum ausserordentlichen Professor für Quantenmaterialien und Sensorik