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DNA is not only one of the most important biopolymers, but also an extremely interesting functional polymer for molecular self-assembly. In catalysis, it can be used to assemble so-called “hybrid catalysts”, which are formed from a piece of DNA and a low molecular weight metal complex.

The unit Analytical-Environmental & Geo-Chemistry investigates the processes leading to the formation of planets, the causes, processes, mechanisms, and consequences of large-scale environmental and biological events, such as mass extinctions occurring throughout Earth history, major climatic

The nature of Dark Matter is one of the big open questions in physics. One of the approaches to unveiling the mysteries behind is to attempt to produce and discover dark matter in the laboratory.

The next (3^rd ) generation of gravitational wave detectors will make gravitational wave astronomy a fact. Indeed, with the current generation about one event a week is observed while with the 3rd generation this will be hundreds of events a day!

Top quark, Higgs and heavy flavor physics with the CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN

The HEP@VUB centre has been involved with the physics studies on the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This project uses a staged approach, in which a new, 100-km tunnel is first used for electron-positron collisions (FCC-ee), after which the complex is upgraded to collide hadrons (FCC-hh).

Since the discovery of cosmic rays in 1912, we still don't know what the sources of these energetic charged particles are.

With the discovery of cosmic high-energy neutrinos IceCube has opened a new research field, dubbed neutrino astronomy, which was announced as the “breakthrough of 2013”.

This proposal focuses on the stochastic background of gravitational waves (SBGW), both of astrophysical and of cosmological origin. One aspect of this proposal is the modeling of the SBGW originating in the early universe.

In string theory one assumes that elementary particles are not point like but rather little strings (higher dimensional objects, called branes, appear as well). A string like object perceives geometry (e.g. the ambient spacetime) in a very different way than what a point particle does.