The Winter 2019 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics is awarded to Cristiane Morais Smith
The jury members decided to attribute the Emmy Noether Distinction to Prof. Cristiane Morais Smith, “for her outstanding contributions to the theory of condensed matter systems and ultracold atoms to unveil novel quantum states of matter”.
The EPS Emmy Noether Distinction Summer 2019 goes to Sarah Köster
The summer 2019 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction is awarded to Sarah Köster from the Institute for X-Ray Physics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.
Interview with Ágnes Kóspál: There are many rewarding moments in my work
Ágnes Kóspál is an astrophysicist who worked as a postdoc in the Netherlands at Leiden University and at the European Space Agency after obtaining her MSc in physics and astronomy, and her PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
Call for nominations for the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction
In 2013, the European Physical Society launched the Emmy Noether Distinction to recognise noteworthy women physicists.
Interview with Andrea Blanco-Redondo: Do what you love and never give up
Andrea Blanco-Redondo is a young researcher, an expert in integrated nonlinear and topological photonics in silicon-based materials. She just took a position with Nokia Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA.
Interview – Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Prize of Physics
Donna Strickland was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for her invention of the chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique with Gérard Mourou in 1985. This technique amounts to stretching a short pulse at low energy through diffraction gratings, then amplifying it to high energy before finally compressing it in order to get a short, high energy pulse. This technology opened the route to petawatt lasers used in high-field science, ultrafast imaging and spectroscopy techniques, eye surgery, and many industrial applications such as micromachining, to mention a few.
The winter 2018 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction goes to Chiara Mariotti
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Winter 2018 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Chiara Mariotti from INFN, Italy, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
EPS Emmy Noether Distinction Winter 2017 for Women in Physics
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Winter 2017 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Françoise Remacle from the University of Liege in Belgium.
The Summer 2017 Emmy Noether distinction presented to Catalina Curceanu
On 1st December 2017, the Emmy Noether distinction was presented to Dr. Catalina Curceanu (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN, Italy), by the EPS Equal Opportunity Committee (EOC) Chair, on behalf of the EPS.
AIP Women in Physics Lecture Tour: call for nominations 2018
The Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) Women in Physics Lecture Tour (WIP) celebrates the contribution of women to advances in physics. Under this scheme, a woman who has made a significant contribution in a field of physics will be selected to present lectures in venues arranged by each participating branch of the AIP. Nominations are currently sought for the AIP WIP Lecturer for 2018. We are seeking a woman working overseas who:
Natasha Jeffrey: looking at the beautiful Sun and (much) more
Natasha Jeffrey is an early career researcher in solar physics at the University of Glasgow, UK, a world-leading solar group. She is interested in solar flare plasma physics and studies the largest explosions in the solar system, solar flares, a key component of space weather. She uses both observational tools and modelling to understand how flares accelerate and transport high energy particles efficiently, a vital topic in all high-energy astrophysics. In 2016, she received the EPS Plasma Physics Thesis Prize and in 2017, the European Solar Physics Division Early Career Researcher Award. In 2018, she will receive the European Geosciences Union ST Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award.
