Research

Welcome to our research pages!

Virtually all fields of physics are represented at the Department of Physics.

Research

Virtually all fields of physics are represented at the Department of Physics

Research Subjects

We conduct leading research at both national and international level. Our research is of high status and we have Nobel Prize winners and several other award-winning researchers at Fysikum.

Research with Harry Parke and Marion Mallweger. Photo: Jens Lasthein

Our Research Groups

Fysikum's research is carried out in both theoretical and experimental physics. We have seven departments and several projects. We often work in collaboration and also with other universities and research institutes.

Research Projects

Physics' size and breadth puts us in a strong position when it comes to physics research. Our ambition is to deliver research results in all, or at least most, areas of physics - and at the highest level.

Publications

Our researchers and students yearly produces a large amount of publications within the area of social work. Since 2007 these are registered in DiVA, the Digital Scientific Archive for easy access.

News

2024-10-15

Department of Physics

Six researchers share 175 million from the Wallenberg Foundation

Basic research at Stockholm University has been granted funding by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Henning Schmidt, Professor of Atomic Physics division at Fysikum, has received SEK 35,000,000 over five years for the project 'Making and breaking of molecular bonds'.

Bild på det interstellära molnet Carina-nebulosan tagen med hjälp av James Webb Space Telescope.NASA

2024-10-14

Department of Physics

Announcement of PhD positions - 14 October

New PhD positions are announced from 14 October in several exciting and up-to-date research fields in modern physics. We are looking for committed students with a strong interest in experimental and theoretical physics. Follow the link to read more about the call and the different PhD positions.

2024-10-03

Department of Physics

Eddy is a teacher, researcher and newly appointed professor at Fysikum

Eddy Ardonne comes from the province of Zeeland in the south-west of the Netherlands. He obtained his Master's degree at Leiden University and Phd in Amsterdam. After being a Postdoc in the US for five years, he joined Nordita and then came to Fysikum in 2012. Until this year, he has been teaching in parallel with his research. In August 2024, the President promoted him to Professor of Condensed Matter Theory.

Eddy Ardonne, professor i kondenserade materiens teori

2024-10-02

Department of Physics

The graviton - the quantum particle of gravity

Igor Pikovski has been interviewed by Swedish Radio about how they will use a small supercold resonance box and quantum sensor technology to detect gravitons. They believe that gravitons can be detected using quantum sensor technology. These particles have previously been considered impossible to observe. Igor Pikovski is a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics.