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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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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Hot off the press
New article in the Journal Soft Matter RSC by the Brader group
28.04.2025
Combining integral equation closures with force density functional theory for the study of inhomogeneous fluids
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SATW Network
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Beck on his appointment as an individual member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW
20.03.2025
SATW is a network of key figures from science and industry. Individuals who make a special contribution to furthering SATW’s goals and/or the engineering sciences can be elected Full Members.
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