Doctoral program
Spectroscopy and non-equilibrium dynamics
11.02.2026
The hard condensed matter retreat organized by professors Michael Schueler & Claude Monney took place in Schwarzsee from 20 to 23 January 2026, bringing together more than 20 people from Fribourg & PSI.…
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Hot off the press
New article in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B by the Brader group
05.02.2026
Routes to the Density Profile and Structural Inconsistency
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Hot off the press
New article in Advanced Materials Interfaces by the Bernhard group
11.12.2025
Layer Stacking Dependent Suppression of Metallicity and
Superconductivity in Sr2IrO4/YBa2Cu3O7 Bilayers
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Health
Microscope imaging gets a smartphone boost
26.11.2025
Physicists from the University of Fribourg have developed a groundbreaking iteration of the fluorescence microscope using smartphone technology. Both highly affordable and portable, their device could…
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Physics
Physicists Create Smart Material for Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Electronics
23.07.2025
We are constantly surrounded by a background of electromagnetic noise – from mobile phones, Wi-Fi routers, power lines, or natural sources – that is commonly perceived as useless perturbation or even as…
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Award
Manuel Helfer lauréat 2024 du Prix du meilleur travail de Master en Sciences expérimentales
22.07.2025
Nous félicitons Manuel Helfer pour son excellent travail de Master en physique intitulé "Deconvoluting strain and strain rate contributions for yielding in oscillatory shear".
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Award
Matthias Murray lauréat 2024 du Prix du meilleur travail de Master en Sciences théoriques
22.07.2025
Nous félicitons Matthias Murray pour son excellent travail de Master en physique intitulé "Nonequilibrium diagrammatic many-body simulations using quantics tensor trains".
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MERCI
Workshop group prof. Brader
21.05.2025
New Frontiers in Classical Density Functional Theory
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OUR STUDENTS AT PSI
Physics students visit the high-tech large-scale facilities at PSI
28.04.2025
On April 11, our physics students had the great pleasure to visit the newly upgraded synchrotron facility SLS 2.0, as well as the cutting-edge X-ray free electron laser SwissFEL at the Paul Scherrer Institute.
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