News 2016

Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki was awarded the membership of the FAIR GSI Exotic Nuclei Community (GENCO) for “his outstanding contributions to reaction experiments with relativistic stored radioactive beams for the study of collective modes”.

n the framework of heavy element research, a group of scientists (amongst them Julia Even since February 2016 at KVI-CART) performed the first laser spectroscopy studies of Nobelium

The new Rosalind Franklin fellows at the University were presented on September 6th.

On 24 June 2016 the Permanent Committee for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructuur appointed by NWO has presented the website onderzoeksfaciliteiten.nl.

Julia Even, Rosalind-Franklin Fellow at KVI-CART, was one of the invited speakers at the 160th Nobel Symposium on the topic “Chemistry and Physics of Heavy and Superheavy Elements”.

Het werken aan een beter begrip van de fysica van onweersontladingen dat aan het KVI-CART wordt gedaan trekt veel belangstelling. Onlangs verschenen artikelen in zowel de UK als het DvhN geïnspireerd door dit werk.

The EC has decided to fund the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network RADSAGA that will give fifteen young scientists the opportunity to do a PhD-research project on the mitigation of radiation induced damage in electronics components.

Using precision measurements of LOFAR on radio emission from cosmic ray induced airshowers a group of researchers, among whom Gia Trinh and Olaf Scholten from KVI-CART, have contributed to solving the riddle of the source of high energy cosmic rays.

In January 2016, the NUSTAR Council members re-elected Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki as member of the NUSTAR Board of Representatives (BR) for a second two-year term.

Karol Brzezinski, postdoc in the Medical Physics Group at KVI-CART, has won the poster prize at the ICTR-PHE conference in Geneve (15 -19 February 2016).

Bliksem is een zeer intrigerend natuurverschijnsel, desondanks zijn er vele aspecten die nog niet duidelijk zijn.