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Professor Mark Mitchison to lead €2.9 million Quantum Technologies Flagship project

Professor Mark Mitchison has won an EU Quantum Technologies Flagship research grant worth €2.9 million. He will lead a team of researchers seeking to understand nature’s timekeeping limitations and querying whether precision mea

01 Nov 2022

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The Erasmus Smith’s Professorship of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1724)

Jonathan Nesbit Coleman (Johnny) was appointed in 2022 as Trinity College’s 22nd Erasmus Smith’s professor of natural and experimental philosophy, i.e. physics. Founded in 1724, it is one of the oldest chairs of physics in Irelan

21 Oct 2022

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Prof. Luca Matrà awarded an Irish research council starting Laureate grant for his project E-BEANS

Prof. Luca Matrà awarded an Irish research council starting Laureate grant for his project Exoplanets and Belts of Exocomets Around Nearby Stars [E-BEANS]

10 Oct 2022

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Prof. Felix Binder awarded an Irish research council starting Laureate grant for his project InfoNat

Prof. Felix Binder awarded an Irish research council starting Laureate grant for his project Understanding and Harnessing Information Processing in Nature [InfoNat]

10 Oct 2022

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Alessandro Lunghi is the only Irish recipient of the intel Rising Star Faculty Award for his breakthrough work in quantum mechanics and machine learn

Each year, the Intel® Rising Star Faculty Award (RSA) program selects early-career academic researchers who lead groundbreaking technology research demonstrating the potential to disrupt the tech industry.

10 Oct 2022

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First compelling evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves in the cosmos

Scientists from Trinity are part of the European Pulsar Timing Array, which joins teams worldwide in today announcing evidence for gravitational wave signals of cosmological origin.

30 Jun 2022

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Dr Hongzhou Zhang research project funded in the latest round of funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)

Dr Hongzhou Zhang research project Controllable Resistive Switching in Two-dimensional Molybdenum Disulphide via Site-specific Helium Ion Irradiation wins SFI funding...

08 Jun 2022

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The edge currents that don’t go with the flow – scientists make peculiar quantum discovery

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid have made a peculiar discovery in which energy moves from a colder to a hotter region...

28 Mar 2022

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QUSYS Group win European Research Council Proof of Concept grant

QUSYS Group group led by Professor John Goold will test, develop, and find market opportunities for a new soil fertility monitoring and forecasting method based on the statistical physics of disordered systems...

08 Feb 2022

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School of Physics researchers design new molecules that boost fuel efficiency

Researchers from Trinity and TOTAL have designed, synthesized and tested new additives that increase fuel efficiency. Led by Professor Stephen Dooley in Trinity’s School of Physics, the Trinity researchers undertook the project...

17 Dec 2021

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