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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.

Would you like to expand your knowledge on bioelectronics, biophotonics and biomechanics? Do you love a diverse environment of international scientists?

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.

We kindly invite you to register and participate in International Conference "Extended Hanseatic meeting on Exciton Dynamics and Spectroscopy 2025"

On 20 May, the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University (VU) will host the interfaculty academic debate in English, “Discourse and Society”. The event will feature student teams from four faculties: Philology, Philosophy, Law, and Economics and Business Administration.

Scientific research is a long and meticulous process where human error can be costly and even compromise the intended results. That’s why researchers are constantly seeking ways to involve robots in their work. A recent breakthrough in this area has come from scientists at Vilnius University’s (VU) Faculty of Physics. Together with colleagues from Catalonia, they have demonstrated that highly complex light conversion studies can successfully be carried out by automated systems. Their achievement was even featured on the cover of the prestigious journal “ACS Central Science”.

The University of Minho invites Arqus Early-Stage Researchers to its Summer School this July. The Arqus Summer School on Research Leadership and Career Development for Early-Stage Researchers will take place from 7 to 9 July 2025. The event is organised by the University of Minho as part of the Arqus Innovation Fund.