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01 Jul 2026 / News, Research, People

Graphene reveals surprising types of superconducting states

The ultra-thin material graphene can surprisingly host several superconducting states. This has been demonstrated by researchers of the University of Basel (Armel A. Cotten, Mingchi Xu, Omid Sharifi Sedeh, Henok Weldeyesus and Dominik M.…

10 Jun 2026 / News, Research, People

ACS Nano Impact Award for publication on controllable quantum effects

This year's ACS Nano Impact Award goes to a research team from the universities of Basel and Bern.

05 Dec 2025 / Research, People

Julian Arnold wins Faculty of Science PhD prize

At the Dies Academicus 2025, Dr. Julian Arnold received the Faculty of Science prize for his outstanding PhD thesis "Machine Learning Phase Transitions: A Probabilistic Perspective".

16 Sep 2025 / News, People

Jodok Happacher wins SPS Award for his PhD thesis

Jodok Happacher receives an SPS Award for his outstanding research on single Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond at low temperatures, which is of importance for quantum sensing.

26 Mar 2024 / People, Info

Christian Schönenberger announced as Outstanding APS Referees 2024

In APS March Meeting 2024, Christian Schönenberger was announced as one of the outstanding APS referees for 2024. We congratulate him on this highlight.

01 Mar 2024 / People, Info

Continuation and funding increase of NCCR SPIN

It’s a great pleasure to announce that the SNSF approved the continuation of the NCCR SPIN into its second phase. Additionally, the SNSF has agreed to increase our funding to 120% of phase I.

22 Feb 2024 / People, Info

Two Startup Grants for Quamplify

Quantum computers operate best at temperatures below a few kelvin and some architectures require large magnetic fields. These are conditions at which classical electronics components often behave unpredictably.

28 Nov 2023 / People, Info

Katharina Laubscher wins Faculty of Science PhD prize

Dr. Katharina Laubscher, from Müttenz, has won the Faculty of Science prize (sponsored by Adobe Research, Schweiz) for her PhD thesis on “Topological systems with strong electron-electron interactions”.

25 Oct 2023 / Research, People, Info

Dominik Zumbühl elected American Physical Society Fellow for 2023

We are very pleased to announce that Dominik Zumbühl was named a fellow of the American Physical Society for 2023.

15 Jun 2023 / People, Info

Christoph Gerber to receive the Albert Einstein World Award of Science

Professor Christoph Gerber of the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel has been selected as the winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science. The World Cultural Council awarded Gerber…