The European Physical Society (EPS) is proud to announce its 2026 distinctions and awards, recognising outstanding contributions to physics across all career stages. The distinctions were announce at the EPS Council meeting held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 15–16 May 2026. Also announced during the meeting...
COMO/VILNIUS, 16 May 2026 – French physicist Jean Dalibard is the winner of the 2025 Alessandro Volta Prize. The announcement was made today in Vilnius, Lithuania, during the annual meeting of the Council of the European Physical Society (EPS). The announcement was delivered by Mairi...
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The EPS Europhysics Prize is given in recognition of a prominent and well-identifiable discovery, breakthrough, or contribution to condensed matter physics by one or more individuals in the area of condensed matter physics, which, in the opinion of the selection committee, represents scientific excellence. The...
Mulhouse, 10th April 2026. The European Physical Society is pleased to announce that Aleksandra Radenovic, a Swiss and Croatian biophysicist, is a full professor of Biological Engineering in the School of Engineering and Co-Director of the Bioengineering Institute. Professor Radenovic studied physics at the...
Gloria Platero, research professor at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), was awarded the 2023 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction “in recognition of her remarkable contributions to the theoretical understanding of out-of-equilibrium (Floquet) systems and their impactful application to...
The International Commission on Physics Education (C14) was established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) in 1960 to promote the exchange of information and views among the members of the international scientific community in Physics Education. Today, IUPAP C14 invites physicists...
Read the November 2025 issue of e-EPS here. e-EPS is the Society’s monthly newsletter.
7 October 2025 – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit” Read the press release of The Royal Swedish Academy of...