We are delighted to announce details of the 2023 John Bell Day Lecture in association with the Royal Irish Academy and the School of Maths and Physics at Queen’s University Belfast. 

To register for the event please click HERE.

If you would like to submit a question in advance please include it in your registration, otherwise, we will give you an opportunity to submit questions throughout the event.

Running Order

 12.30pm - Introduction from Professor Chris Johnston, Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor, Queen's University Belfast

12.35pm - 'Testing the foundations of quantum mechanics with levitated mechanical systems ' - Keynote address from Professor Hendrik Ulbricht

1.15pm - Q&A Session, hosted by Professor Mauro Paternostro, Head of School of Maths and Physics, Queen's University Belfast

1.30pm - Close by Professor Gerry McKenna, Hon Executive Secretary and President Emeritus, Royal Irish Academy

About the Speaker

 Hendrik is Professor of Physics. He obtained his undergraduate degree in physics (Dipl.-Phys.) from the Technical University at Berlin (Germany) and the Albert Einstein Institute (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Golm) in 2000 with a theoretical work on Black Hole Thermodynamics. He graduated with a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Free University of Berlin and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Germany) in 2003 with a work on experimental surface science in the group of Nobel Laureate Gerhard Ertl (NP in Chemistry 2007). After a postdoc position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, US on a Max Kade fellowship and as senior postdoc and Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna (Austria), he joined the Department of Physics & Astronomy in 2008 as a Reader and was promoted a personal chair in 2014. He leads the Quantum Nanophysics and Matterwave Interferometry research group.