Dr Anneke Erasmus is one of 6 women scientists to graduate with a PhD in Physics during Stellenbosch University’s March graduation ceremony this week. She had to overcome several setbacks, including loadshedding and a burst water pipe, while experimenting with optical trapping – a technique that uses lasers to hold microscopically small particles in place.

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.

​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 Western Cape (UWC).

​​​​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 Africa, accessed via the existing Huguenot tunnel.

Join us for this Science Café Stellenbosch and meet the physicists behind the world's longest quantum satellite link.