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Study Physics We offer bachelor's and master's degree programmes, stand-alone courses and postgraduate studies Newly admitted student The most important things you ought to know before the start of a new semester Bachelor programme…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/education- 2024-03-22

Bibiana Prinoth has been awarded the Oscar II Scholarship 2026 for the best thesis at the Faculty of Science. The scholarship recognises the most prominent thesis presented during the past two years within each field at Lund University. In…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/thesis-exploring-extreme-exoplanet-atmospheres-awarded-oscar-ii-scholarship- 2026-04-27

Heads of Department meetingAs you may already know, a very large part of my time is spent in meetings. Frequent meetings and more occasional ones – and everything in between. And of course, within that mix there are meetings that are more…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/about-us/head-department-letter/head-department-letter-2026/head-department-letter-may-2026- 2026-04-30

How do some planets end up extremely close to their host stars, despite appearing to have formed much farther away? A new international JWST study, led by the University of Southern Queensland in collaboration with MIT, seeks to answer…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/when-planets-migrate-lund-researcher-contributes-key-analysis-jwst-study- 2026-05-07

Physicist and Nobel Laureate Anne L’Huillier has been awarded this year’s Röntgen Plaque. The award ceremony will take place on 30 May in Remscheid, Germany. Anne L’Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at Lund University, receives the…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-awarded-rontgen-plaque-2026- 2026-05-26

Magnetic fields are not a phenomenon confined to our Solar System. A recent study shows that distant exoplanets carry clear signatures of magnetism – something that had not previously been known. The findings open up new ways to study…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/cosmic-gusts-reveal-mysterious-magnetic-fields- 2026-06-04

We are currently in the midst of an intensive period of strategic discussions across a range of forums. At the time of writing, we have not yet held our dialogue with the physics review group, but we have already prepared material for the…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/about-us/head-department-letter/head-department-letter-2026/head-departments-letter-june-2026- 2026-06-04

4 September 2026 09:15 to 12:00 | Thesis defence Patrik Nilsson will defend his doctoral thesis in physics entitled:"Motion in the Noise: Observing the Steps of an Artificial Protein Motor".Patrik Nilsson’s thesis is available at the…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/calendar/dissertation-patrik-nilsson- 2026-06-22

4 September 2026 13:00 to 16:00 | Thesis defence Nedjma Ouahioune will defend her doctoral thesis in physics entitled:"High-order Harmonic Generation with Few-cycle Pulses for Ultrafast Electron Spectroscopy".Nedjma Ouahioune’s thesis is…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/calendar/dissertation-nedjma-ouahioune- 2026-06-10

In a joint initiative, six Swedish universities are now joining forces to establish the Swedish Center for Quantum Technology, a national centre for research, innovation, education and capacity building in quantum technology. The…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-centre-strengthen-sweden-quantum-race- 2026-06-11

The Swedish Research Council has announced the first funding decisions under its Strategic Recruitment of Associate Senior Lecturers programme. Two of the grants have been awarded to the Faculty of Science through the recruitment of…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/double-success-faculty-science-swedish-research-council-call- 2026-06-16

28 September 2026 15:15 to 16:15 | Seminar Docent Lecture September 28:The Formation of the Moon and How It Affected the Evolution of LifeBy Santi Roca Fabrega, Division of Astrophysics, the Department of Physics.AbstractThe origin of…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/calendar/docent-lecture-santi-roca-fabrega- 2026-06-17

Bibiana Prinoth, who completed her PhD at Lund University in 2025, has now been recognised internationally. She is one of only nine researchers worldwide to receive the IAU PhD Prize. The award highlights the most outstanding doctoral…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astrophysicist-lund-receives-international-prize-her-thesis- 2026-06-25

The strange space object ‘Oumuamua took the scientific community by storm nine years ago. In the wake of its passage close to our planet, many questions have been raised. Recently, an international initiative was launched to search for…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/hunt-visitors-other-solar-systems- 2026-06-30

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection- 2021-02-24

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able to observe a precursor to a quantum phase transition, and thereby study physical processes…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell- 2021-02-24

Courses in Physics at the Faculty of Engineering Physics is a central subject in many of LTH's programmes. The current range of courses in physics at LTH is presented on our Swedish website. The courses are primarily available to programme…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/education/courses/courses-lth- 2024-10-15

The degree project in physics, at bachelor's or master's level, is an individual project that you do in a research group. You will get the opportunity to enter deeply into a subject that you are interested in, and get valuable experience…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/education/degree-projects-and-applied-work- 2025-10-08

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. What is all the dark matter in the universe made of? Could it be connected to new particles that can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider? Caterina…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/prestigious-erc-consilidator-grant-awarded-caterina-doglioni- 2021-02-24

Scientists at Atomic Physics are pursuing research on the properties of atoms and molecules, mainly using advanced laser techniques. Lasers with outputs of the order of terawatts (1012 or a million million watts) are used to study how…

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/research/atomic-physics- 2024-10-02