2025-01-17

Department of Physics

Svante researches antiatoms and antiions

After completing his PhD in Uppsala and later researching at Nordita in Copenhagen and Umeå University, he moved on to the University of Swansea, Wales. Eventually he returned to Sweden and Fysikum. He lives in Uppsala again and has two grown-up daughters who are studying biology and the history of ideas. “Since 2010, I have a lectureship at Fysikum and research on antiatoms and antiions. Many researchers are part of the international ALPHA collaboration, which have published an article in Nature Physics in January 2025.

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2025-01-15

Department of Physics

Arthur Loureiro's project is funded by the Swedish National Space Agency

"At the beginning of January 2025, the Swedish National Space Agency announced that my Career Grant project was selected for funding (5.45 million SEK). This grant will support my research activities here at Fysikum, focusing on cosmology linked to the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, which will be launched in July 2023," says Arthur Loureiro, researcher at the Oskar Klein Centre at Stockholm University.

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2024-12-19

Department of Physics

Exciting conferences on the tracks

Are you contemplating whether to fly or take the train to next year's conferences? Here's a travel story by Michael Odelius that might inspire or discourage you. Many people you meet from Europe complain about unreliable national train services. Even in Switzerland, where to an outsider SSB seems to work just fine.

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2024-12-12

Department of Physics

Sunrise Compute Cluster Moves to a New Home

The Sunrise compute cluster, a cornerstone of Fysikum's scientific computing activities, has entered an exciting new chapter. With over 60 users each week and providing an impressive 2 to 3 million computational hours per month, Sunrise powers cutting-edge research, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and educational endeavors.

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