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Leiden Institute of Physics (LION)
The Leiden Institute of Physics (“Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde”) was established in the fall of 1993; physics in Leiden has a much longer tradition.
The institute consists of the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, the Instituut-Lorentz, and the
Huygens Laboratorium. The institute is responsible for the education and training in physics research of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and for the teaching of physics on the BSc and MSc level in the Faculty of Science at Leiden University.
The research groups of the institute participate in three research schools:
Casimir Research School (with TU Delft),
National Research School for Theoretical Physics (LOTN), and the
Graduate School for the Structure and Function of Bio-macromolecules (BIOMAC)
between research groups of the Leiden Institute for Chemistry (LIC) and LION.
LION and the Department of Nanoscience at the Technical University in Delft have started a multidisciplinary MSc program ‘NanoScience’.
On an individual or workgroup level members of the institute participate in many national and international research collaborations, e.g. the Dutch Polymer Institute, ESF programs and networks/science programs of the EU. They also make use of (inter)national research facilities, such as centers for high magnetic fields and heavy ion irradiation, neutron, muon and synchroton sources, etc. Worth mentioning is also the involvement of LION in the Lorentz Center. The Center facilitates the organisation of international workshops of one or more weeks. Its present director is prof. Wim van Saarloos, member of the theoretical physics staff in our institute. The Lorentz Center is located in close vicinity to the institute, on the 3rd floor of the Oort building.
Management structure
 oort building |
 science faculty |
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Mission statement
The mission of the institute is to promote and stimulate research of the highest level in a number of
priority fields in experimental and theoretical physics, and to create and sustain the necessary
infrastructure for an outstanding graduate education in experimental and theoretical physics. In addition,
the institute is responsible for the physics teaching at the undergraduate level. |
The Leiden Institute of Physics (“Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde”) was established in the fall of 1993; physics in Leiden has a much longer tradition.
The institute consists of the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, the Instituut-Lorentz, and the
Huygens Laboratorium. The institute is responsible for the education and training in physics research of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and for the teaching of physics on the BSc and MSc level in the Faculty of Science at Leiden University.
The research groups of the institute participate in three research schools:
Casimir Research School (with TU Delft),
National Research School for Theoretical Physics (LOTN), and the
Graduate School for the Structure and Function of Bio-macromolecules (BIOMAC)
between research groups of the Leiden Institute for Chemistry (LIC) and LION.
LION and the Department of Nanoscience at the Technical University in Delft have started a multidisciplinary MSc program ‘NanoScience’.
On an individual or workgroup level members of the institute participate in many national and international research collaborations, e.g. the Dutch Polymer Institute, ESF programs and networks/science programs of the EU. They also make use of (inter)national research facilities, such as centers for high magnetic fields and heavy ion irradiation, neutron, muon and synchroton sources, etc. Worth mentioning is also the involvement of LION in the Lorentz Center. The Center facilitates the organisation of international workshops of one or more weeks. Its present director is prof. Wim van Saarloos, member of the theoretical physics staff in our institute. The Lorentz Center is located in close vicinity to the institute, on the 3rd floor of the Oort building.
Management structure