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Scientists from Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet – a gas giant located far from the Galactic Centre. This is only the third such discovery in the entire history of observations. The discovery is even more exceptional due to the method used – the phenomenon known as microlensing. The results of the observations have been published in one of the most prestigious astronomy journals “Astronomy & Astrophysics”.

Vilnius University (VU) hosts an international school on trigger and data acquisition ISOTDAQ2025 on June 17-26, 2025. Around one hundred participants from different countries will attend the event that shares experience from the European organization for nuclear research (CERN).

The graduation season is just around the corner, when St Johns’ Church and other venues chosen for the official diploma-awarding ceremonies will be filled with the joyful bustle of graduates. As we approach this celebration, please be reminded that you are welcome to wear a VU cap during the ceremony.

Dr Mindaugas Šarpis, a researcher at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University (VU), and leader of the LHCb Vilnius group, has been awarded a prestigious ERA Fellowship grant under Horizon Europe funding programme for his postdoctoral research. The funding, amounting to almost 200,000 Eur will strengthen Lithuania’s competences in particle physics and lay the foundations for further research at VU.

We are pleased to invite the graduates of the Faculty of Physics, their relatives and members of our faculty community to the graduation ceremony.

Arqus is glad to launch a joint call for Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP) and a call for Arqus Twinning 2.0 projects. These two calls are aimed at academic staff to reinforce the collaboration between the members of the Alliance and to propose short-term mobility opportunities for students and staff.

Lithuania stands out globally for its rapidly developing light technology industry, with lasers playing a key role in this important ecosystem. The laser infrastructure at Vilnius University’s (VU) Faculty of Physics is equally renowned for its international outlook and open science practices. Long-standing collaboration between the academic community and industry here drives innovative solutions.

For her contributions to astrophysical science and the development of astrospectroscopy, initiation of exoplanet research in Lithuania, dissemination of knowledge on the understanding of the Universe, and for promoting the name of Lithuania in the world, she was awarded with the Ignotas Domeika Medal and became an honorary member of the Lithuanian Ignotas Domeika Society.

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Quantum physics, with its mysterious phenomena, raises more and more questions about the nature of reality – from Schrödinger’s cat, which is both alive and dead at the same time, to quantum teleportation that transmits quantum states without transferring any physical matter.

On May 30 Vadzim Horonin successfully defended his thesis “Pulsed Laser Deposition and Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy of Complex Perovskite Materials”.

From June 27 to 29, a team of six astronomers from our Faculty of Physics, led by Dr Šarūnas Mikolaitis, travelled to Warsaw to meet with Polish colleagues as part of the first in person scientific meeting of the project “The History of C, N, and O in the Galaxy”.

Researchers at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology of Vilnius University (VU) Faculty of Physics, including Dr Irina Buchovec and PhD student Gabrielė Vasiliauskaitė in collaboration with Master student Nojus Radzevičius from the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, are exploring how light-based technologies can help combat harmful microorganisms.

From 16 to 20 June, Vilnius University (VU) will host its third annual International Multidisciplinary Summer School for Doctoral Students.

Vilnius University Faculty of Physics ITPA, in collaboration with The Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC) invites you to the upcoming seminar.

VU SR FPh invites you to our traditional community evening, where everyone from our faculty is invited.

Dr Jonas Bialopetravičius, lecturer of the Faculty of Physics at Vilnius University (VU) who works at the startup “Oxipit”, deserves to be introduced in a particularly interesting way: hearing an astrophysicist say that searching for star clusters and signs of an illness in a lung X-ray is the same thing is bound to spark curiosity.

Scientists in Lithuania have developed a breakthrough method that dramatically speeds up atomic force microscopy (AFM) and expands its scanning range to the millimetre scale. Developed by researchers at Vilnius University (VU) and the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, this innovation, featured in the journal “Measurement”, marks a significant advancement in nanoscale imaging, with potential applications across materials science, biotechnology, and semiconductor research.

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