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

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...

🔗 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.

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/

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

🐯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

📢 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 .

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

📢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

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

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

#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

📢 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

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

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!

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

#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

🎉 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

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_

🧑‍🎓 ‘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

🏆 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

🎓New professor! We are very proud to announce the appointment of Alessandra Silvestri as #Professor of Theoretical #Physics in the area of #Cosmology. For Alessandra, this promotion in Leiden is 'the icing on the cake' – though far from the final chapter: t.ly/uB4p3

Dit weekend stonden we stil bij 80 jaar vrijheid in Nederland: LION herdenkt vandaag twee slachtoffers van #WOII. 🕯️Arie Bijl, theoretisch natuurkundige, 37 jaar. 🕯️Henri Roos, student instrumentmaker, 22 jaar oud #4en5mei @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

Quantum Leiden celebrated World Quantum Day in Enschede 🎉 Leiden researcher Evert van Nieuwenburg stressed the importance of games to learn complex quantumtechnology: for example by using Quantum Fish Blocksphere or Quantum Tic Tac Toe #IYQ2025 #quantum #physics Try it yourself: tiqtaqtoe.com

#Fysica2025 is van start in #Leiden! #quantum #neutrino #TiqTacToe, #keynote, Young Speakers Contest, Natuurkundedocent van het jaar 2025, HBO Jong Talentprijs, Physica prize winner, Focus sessions, #Nobel prize lecture. Veel plezier aan allen! @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

🎉Een #natuurkunde #minor voor studenten van alle academische opleidingen. De mysterieuze realiteit: #quantummechanica, #oerknal en #relativiteitstheorie ontrafeld voor iedereen. Vertel het door! @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @leidenlaw.bsky.social

🏆Liru Feng wins LION Image Award 2025! His photo titled 'Entangled Fate: From Fluid to Rigid' was awarded best research image of the year. @leidenscience.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

Registration for the GIREP-EPEC 2025 Leiden conference is now open! 🖋️ t.ly/ZYtTh 📅 30 June to July 4, 2025 🌍 Leiden University 🎙️ Mieke de Cock, Alexandre Morin, Heather Lewandowski, Rainer Muller, Judith Hillier & Ricardo Karam

Book your ticket for FYSICA 2025 this week with an early-bird discount! This yearly NNV Nederlandse Natuurkundige Vereniging-event is on 11th April! #natuurkunde #fysica

🎙️News splash from #Euclid space telescope! The telescope’s initial observations provide a wealth of new information about our universe. And it's only the beginning... Read more: t.ly/cCxlL #esa @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social

🥄When you look at the concave side of a spoon, you see yourself inverted. But how is that possible? Physicist @juliacramer.bsky.social explains that to you in this #podcast from BNNVARA #alledaagsevragen (in Dutch). t.ly/hW-x1 #physics #sciencecommunication

#Physics #TeachOut #WOinactie PhD candidates Vincent Koeman and Marien Raat teaching #quantum to children in primary school. Sharing knowledge to stress the relevance and importance of our work for society. 🟥Stop budget cuts on education!

Bachelor #physics students from all over the world: come to @unileiden.bsky.social to participate in a #summerschool filled with talks, lab tours and cultural events! Apply before 31 March!

Aanrader voor iedereen die meer wil weten over #quantum!

Our new visiting fellow Louk Rademaker explores #quantum effects in so-called #strangematerials. His research is paving the way for new materials that could be used in emerging technologies! Full article: t.ly/vaK26 @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenscience.bsky.social @sensevdmolen.bsky.social

Are you a @unileiden.bsky.social based scientist working on #quantum and #innovation? ​Join us for an engaging #IP Workshop on March 25th! Quantum Delta NL #physics Infinity QD

We are delighted to announce that Jasper Knoester has been reappointed as Dean of our Faculty. @unileiden.bsky.social

Celebrating 450 years of research: #detijdvooruit! Our history in physics goes back more than a century. We took the time to 'remake' some of the beautiful photographs from the period 1898-1948. t.ly/Bym8J #physics @leidenscience.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social