2026

24.07.2026: Under the Swiss Alps - Background Characterization of the Bedretto Underground Laboratory

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:44:22 GMT

An article covering a comprehensive background characterization study of the Bedretto Tunnel has been published, demonstrating its potential as a future low-background physics laboratory in Switzerland.

13.07.2026: Transformer Models Improve Pulse-Shape Discrimination in HPGe Detectors

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:53:40 GMT

Marta Babicz and collaborators published a new study in Machine Learning: Science and Technology on transformer-based pulse-shape discrimination in HPGe detectors.

PhD awarded to Andrea Paloma Cimental Chávez

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:15:09 GMT

Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Paloma Cimental Chávez, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis this May!

Congratulations to Gloria Senatore for winning the UZH Candoc Grant!

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:40:53 GMT

Congratulations to our group member Gloria Senatore for being awarded the prestigious UZH Candoc Grant for doctoral students.

Dr. Shingo Kazama starts as Associate Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo

Tue, 26 May 2026 13:17:16 GMT

We congratulate former postdoctoral researcher Dr. Shingo Kazama on starting his new position as Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Science, at Institute of Science Tokyo in April 2026, where he is establishing a new research group.

Challenging Spontaneous Quantum Collapse with the XENONnT Dark Matter Detector

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:09:14 GMT

New XENONnT PRL and Editor's suggestion! The study, led by a former member of the group, looks for signals from quantum collapse models.

SNSF Swiss Postdoctoral Fellowship starts for Florian Jörg

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

We congratulate our group member Florian Jörg for being awarded with the Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation and wish the project great success.

Dr. Christian Wittweg starting as Assistant Professor at Imperial College London

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

We congratulate former postdoctoral researcher Dr. Christian Wittweg on starting his new academic position as Assistant Professor at Imperial College London in December 2025.

First LEGEND-200 Neutrinoless Double-β Decay Results Published in Physical Review Letters

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:27:42 GMT

We are pleased to announce the publication of the first physics results from the LEGEND-200 experiment in Physical Review Letters: First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment (link).