The Nuclear Physics research group focusses on nuclear structure and nuclear resonances in the intermediate energy regime.

Research overview

The Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL) is envisaged being established off the Huguenot Tunnel in the Du Toitskloof Mountains, between the towns of Paarl and Worcester in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.

​​​​Africa's first deep underground science laboratory may become a reality in the next five to ten years with the establishment of the Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL) in the Du Toits Kloof mountains in the Western Cape in South...

​Cutting edge technology in the form of a muon detector on loan from the Institute of Physics of the Two Infinities (IP2I) in Lyon, France, will kick-start cosmic-ray research at Stellenbosch University (SU) and the University of the...

Postgraduate students in Stellenbosch University's (SU) Department of Physics walked away with five of the ten student awards during the recent 26th Congress of the International Commission for Optics (ICO-26) hosted at SU.

Work and news of the group of Kristian Müller-Nedebock in soft condensed matter and biological physics.

Theoretical Physics

Staff in the Department of Physics

With a PhD in physics in his pocket, Dr Amos Kiyumbi plans to invest his research experience in Germany and South Africa into the establishment of a photonics initiative in Tanzania. For his PhD research, Kiyumbi developed a proof-of...