UvA online Open House

This year, you won’t be able to attend any busy on-campus events with lots of people. But our online Open House is the perfect way to get to know UvA study programmes and university life from the comfort of your own home.
Every study programme has an Open House page with videos, FAQs and live events. On the main Open House website you can discover all our programmes, explore the city and campus, and get inspired during our theme weeks.

Is Advanced Matter and Energy Physics in Amsterdam the track for me?

If you enjoy the challenge of fundamental experimental research and always keep an eye open for possible applications of your results, Advanced Matter and Energy Physics might be the track for you. Furthermore, you:

• have a well-founded knowledge of quantum mechanics, statistical physics and electrodynamics (at bachelor's level) - knowledge of condensed matter physics is an advantage;
• would like to work in a leading research laboratory in the Netherlands or abroad - or work on a project in an industrial research setting;
• enjoy working in a team while being the driving force and hands-on 'principle investigator' of your own experiments;
• like to get to the bottom of things, are not afraid of complexity and have a well-developed understanding of the art of doing (experimental) science;
• can quickly absorb and integrate novel concepts.

What does Advanced Matter and Energy Physics at the UvA have to offer me?

Experimental physics in Amsterdam is among the best in the world. This two-year track offers challenging courses and research opportunities focused on current trends in the field. For example, you can participate in research projects on:

1. Next generation energy materials and processes (such as nanocrystals, nanowires and nanophotonic systems for tomorrow's solar energy conversion)
2. Complex condensed matter systems (with properties like unconventional superconductivity)
3. Complex liquids, granular, soft and biomatter (with properties like jamming and self-organisation)
4. New forms of ultracold atomic quantum matter (with properties like strong correlations and entanglement)
5. Precision measurements on (cold) atoms and molecules, to test fundamental physics theories
6. 2D metallic states at the surface of 3D topological insulators, and the phenomena these states can be used to explore (such as Majorana fermions and magnetic monopoles)
7. State-of-the-art lasers

Relevant information

Extra scholarships available

For Physics and Astronomy only, we have in addition to our regular Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship, extra scholarships available for excellent (non-Dutch) EU/EER students. The Amsterdam Physics and Astronomy Scholarship. 

Joint degree programme with VU Amsterdam

Advanced Matter and Energy Physics is a track in the Master's programme Physics and Astronomy, a joint degree programme of the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Courses are taught at locations of both universities. UvA and VU jointly issue a degree certificate in Physics and Astronomy to graduates. As a Physics and Astronomy student in Amsterdam you benefit from expertise, networks and research projects at both universities and affiliated research institutes.