Prof. Theoretical Astroparticle Physics @GRAPPAInstitute | Father of 2 | Author | President @PremioCosmos

Amsterdam, NL
Joined February 2012
📣 Calling candidates from underrepresented groups in physics! The Els Koffeman Fellowship is a prestigious personal grant that supports postdocs conducting high-quality research at @IoP_UvA, with aim to launch them into faculty position. Apply by Nov 8 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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Congrats, @ESA_Euclid collaboration! Scientific papers available at euclid-ec.org/science/public…
#ESAEuclid celebrates first science with sparkling cosmic views! 🤩 The images are part of Euclid’s Early Release Observations — just 24 hours of observations, 17 targets, over 11 million objects revealed in visible light and 5 million more in infrared light. Access them here👉 esa.int/Science_Exploration/… and read more about each image below 🧵👇
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Heads up: @esa is releasing a new set of images captured by the @ESA_Euclid space telescope. Broadcast of the reveal on Thursday 23 May at 12:00 CEST 👇👇
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Congrats to the winners of the French Cosmos Prize: Hélène Courtois, Prix Cosmos des Lycéens 2024 + Jordan Ellenberg, Prix Cosmos 2024. Kudos to Pierre Vanhove & team for a successful 1st edition in France. Award ceremony 10/6 @ Institut de France, Paris prixcosmos.github.io/2024.ht…
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Gianfranco Bertone retweeted
.@gfbertone and @DanHooperAstro 2018 Rev.Mod.Phys. review "History of dark matter" inspirehep.net/literature/14… reaches 1,000 citations. #topcites @APSPublishing @Fermilab
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Due to ongoing turmoil at Columbia U., the “Future of Dark Matter” brainstorming workshop that I co-organised with my friends and colleagues @Elena_Aprile and Lam Hui, initially planned at Columbia U., was hosted at the @SimonsFdn CCA. A brief recap: gianfrancobertone.net/2024/0…
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Gianfranco Bertone retweeted
Dark matter can reach extremely high densities around intermediate-mass black holes and induce environmental effects that can be probed with gravitational waves. Here is a realistic description of the formation of such overdensities: arxiv.org/abs/2404.08731 (1/3)
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Join us for a special @Eucapt Colloquium tomorrow, Jocelyn Bell will speak about "Women is Physics". Abstract: After some 60 yrs as an astrophysicist in the UK, what overall trends do I see in gender balance, where are we now, what lessons might we learn? indico.cern.ch/event/1305343…
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Join us in Amsterdam this Spring for the 1st conference of the “European AI for fundamental physics” consortium. Abstract submission open until 15 January 👇
🎺 We are proud to announce the first European AI for fundamental physics conference, EuCAIFCon 2024 (30 April - 3 May 2024, Amsterdam). The aim of this event is to establish new connections between AI activities across various branches of fundamental physics.
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Wonderful 2023 NL Cosmos Book Prize Ceremony in Amsterdam! Here's an unofficial video, w/ cameo from Nobel laureate G. Parisi 00:38! 🍾 to winners @stanbentvelsen @vancalmthout (book on Higgs) & Margriet vd Heijden (extraordinary women in science) 👏 More: cosmosboekenprijs.nl
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THANK YOU to @jimfjansen, to the scientific jury, @IvovanVulpen (chair), Rosanne Herzberger, Keri Vos, Jan Bouwe, Floris van der Tak, and to the organisers including @NewScientistNL Eline Kraaijenvanger, Maureen Voestermans, @jpschaar, ... 👏👏👏
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And a big thank you to the students from across the Netherlands who participated in the initiative, to their teachers, to the deserving winners, and to the promise of an even more spectacular 2024 NL Cosmos Prize event. Cheers!
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Thank you to @jimfjansen, to the scientific jury, @IvovanVulpen (chair), Rosanne Herzberger, Keri Vos, Jan Bouwe, Floris van der Tak, and to the organisers including @NewScientistNL Eline Kraaijenvanger, Maureen Voestermans, @jpschaar
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And a big thank you to the students from across the Netherlands who participated in the initiative, to their teachers, to the deserving winners, and to the promise of an even more spectacular 2024 NL Cosmos Prize event. Cheers!
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📢 New jobs 📢! We are seeking 1 PhD and 1 postdoc for an exciting project on gravitational wave probes of particle dark matter 🛰️🌊⚫️ Further details, including salary and benefits: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Pos… vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD… @GRAPPAinstitute @UvA_Amsterdam @samayanissanke
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