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A low-energy solar neutrino detector aims to unlock insights into the Sun’s evolutionary history and its connection to the Earth’s climate over millennia. ☀️ Learn more: edin.ac/3Bbkz8m 📷Dr Ragandeep Singh Sidhu at the storage ring ESR at the GSI/FAIR laboratory.

The School awards annual prizes to postgraduate research students who have produced the best PhD thesis. Many congratulations to the latest winners: · Jordan Marsh · Matteo Sergola · Ryan Begley · Massi Hamadouche · Ivan Lobaskin 🙌 Full story: edin.ac/4ihORaa

Congratulations to Dr Franz Herzog who has received a grant from European Research Council (ERC). It will be used to improve theoretical predictions for producing Higgs bosons, electroweak bosons, top quarks and jets as created in collisions at CERN's LHC. edin.ac/4ikDle2 #ERCCoG

Follow this link to find out more about PhD research projects and funding available in the School of Physics and Astronomy.👉 ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/postg…

We don’t often get to celebrate the work of our professional services staff… …so a huge congratulations to Gill Maddy, the School’s Staffing & EDI Officer!💫 Gill received an award for the work she does which has a positive impact on staff experience. edin.ac/3DkSRGI

The University will be closed from 5pm Monday 23 December 2024 and will reopen 9am Friday 3 January 2025. Details of University services and contacts available over the festive break: ed.ac.uk/news/students/… We hope you have an enjoyable festive break. 🎇

Calling MSc offer-holders from Spain & India! 🎓 The School of Physics & Astronomy offers 5 GREAT Scholarships for a 1-year master's in Physics & Astronomy. Apply for 2025-26 now! Deadline: 24 April 2025. Check your eligibility 👉registryservices.ed.ac.uk/student-fundin…

Applications are invited for the 2025 Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship. This four-year Fellowship supports early-career, postdoctoral researchers from backgrounds that are under-represented in the School’s academic community. Full details: edin.ac/3PrAvqE 🗓️19 Feb 2025

“Is there life beyond Earth?”🌌 Explore the mysteries of life and the cosmos with our MSc Astrobiology and PS programme. Join our virtual Information Session at 3-4pm (GMT) Wednesday the 19th of February to learn more about this unique programme. 👉 forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

We are thrilled to welcome Professor Steve Tobias as the next Tait Chair of Mathematical Physics, starting in June 2025. He will spearhead our research and teaching in nonlinear dynamics, fluids and plasmas. Find out more: edin.ac/4hGQPQf #MathematicalPhysics

30 Girl Guide leaders attended workshops to equip them with practical resources to bring the wonders of physics to young girls through the ‘I am a physicist’ badge. edin.ac/40PFpDb The School workshops included resources, guidance and activities.🚀🫧🌪️🎈 #GirlsinPhysics

Join us for the Inaugural Lecture from Prof Joe Zuntz: ‘Choose Your Own Cosmology’ 📅 27 Feb 2025, 17:15 📍 Alder Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, Kings Buildings What would you like to ask Joe in this adventure style cosmology journey? 🚀 edin.ac/4hUZbnz

Gut bacteria surprise scientists by evolving an enzyme that helps break down their cells into nutrients after death, benefiting their neighbours. 🔬 Learn more: edin.ac/4hVTZzJ #Microbiology #Innovation

Gordon Bromage was the first person to complete the BSc with Honours degree in Astrophysics at the University of Edinburgh. 💫 He went on to complete a PhD, and fondly remembers his time at the @royalObs. 🔭ukatc.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Blog---R…

Calling all #postdocs! Want to learn new ways to define and communicate the why, how and what of your research, or business idea? Interested in how to use frameworks and tools from the entrepreneurial world? Join the p2i In Action event on 11 March: bit.ly/p2iInActionMar…

When #DNA #nanostars build loopy networks…🧬 Research breakthrough also demonstrates a link between these topological structures to unique hydrogel material properties. 🧬edin.ac/3D9O638 #topology

The first batch of survey data from the #ESAEuclid telescope has been revealed! 🔭 Over the next 6 years the mission aims to examine one billion galaxies and explore how #DarkEnergy and #DarkMatter have shaped the evolution of the universe. ✨ Our input: edin.ac/3FQ3Jh5

Join us for Prof Ross Galloway’s inaugural lecture where he will recount his unconventional academic journey, and discuss how certain concepts from physics education research offer broader insights into how we live & learn. 🗓️ 3 April 🕔 17.15 edin.ac/3E50kdP

Goodbye Gaia!🚀After 11 years in deep space, the European Space Agency’s #GaiaMission is coming to an end. But its legacy lives on - the final star catalogue has yet to be completed, and it will reshape our view of the Milky Way. edin.ac/43snZiJ 🌌 ESA/Gaia/DPAC

✨Calling all UK students! The UKCA Harding Essay Competition is now open! ✨ Submit your take on life in the cold and icy universe to [email protected] 📅 Deadline for essays is the 31st of July 2025 edin.ac/3RFACjv #studentvoices #essaycompetition #astrobiology