News and events

Kim Steenbakkers successfully defended her PhD thesis “Spectroscopic investigations into small astrochemically relevant open-shell cations". It was awarded the cum laude distinction for exceptional quality. 

Prof. dr. Marc Baldus has been appointed new director of national research institute HFML-FELIX. He will take over from interim director prof. dr. Frank Linde, starting September.

Researchers from HFML-FELIX and the University of Amsterdam have determined the geometry and subtle interactions of a promising organic catalyst, paving the way for a more efficient design.

We are very excited to announce that the biennial HFML-FELIX User Meeting will be taking place July 8-10 of this year. Find out more on how to register and what is on the program here.

The 2025 Agnes-Pockets-PhD prize for outstanding research in the field of Physical Chemistry has been awarded to HFML-FELIX researcher Marius Gerlach. In his thesis he studied the interesting, but very difficult to work with molecule fulminic acid (HCNO).

Researchers at HFML-FELIX and their collaborators at the University of Waterloo in Canada have built and demonstrated a novel machine learning model that is able to predict infrared spectra of ions much faster and with better accuracy than traditional models.

Researcher Arwin Kool exposes interesting materials to all kinds of extreme conditions to see - simply put - when they break. This helps him understand how their promising properties work and can be controlled.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that phosphorene nanoribbons - thin pieces of black phosphorus, only a few nanometres wide - exhibit both magnetic and semiconducting properties at room temperature.

Even though the density of molecules in space can be incredibly low, the immense timescales of the universe allow these molecules to eventually meet and interact. But how does this lead to the formation of new planets?