Our team has two new members from this academic year: associate professor Christian Pfeifer and postdoctoral researcher Maykoll Anthonny Reyes Hung. Welcome! Christian Pfeifer obtained his PhD in 2013 at the II Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Hamburg, with the thesis “The Finsler Spacetime Framework: Backgrounds For Physics Beyond Metric Geometry”. He…

Tomislav Terzić gave an invited plenary talk on “Fundamental physics with IACTs and future prospects in the field” at the TeV Particle Astrophysics conference (TeVPA 2026), held from 30th of August to 4th of September 2026 in Tendo, Japan. This year’s edition was organised by Chiba University.

Tomislav Terzić gave an invited talk on “Astrophysical tests of Quantum Gravity” at the Ljubljana RQI Workshop on Gravitational Quantum Physics and Metrology, held from 10th to 13th of August 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The workshop gathered researchers working on the effects of gravity on quantum systems, gravitational decoherence, and quantum metrology. It is the…

Tomislav Terzić gave an invited talk on “Searching for LIV effects with SSTs” at the conference “From 9 to 40: the SST Telescopes and Gamma-Ray Science with ASTRI and CTAO”, held from 20th to 24th of July 2026 in Sexten, Italy. The conference was dedicated to the Small-Sized Telescopes (SST) of the future CTAO observatory…

The Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) approved the research project “Precision simulations and calibration for tests of Lorentz invariance with extensive air showers” (CALYPSO, IP-2026-8139), led by Tomislav Terzić, within the call Research Projects (IP-2026p, the results of the call). The project will run from 2026 to 2029 with a budget of 199.525,00 EUR. CALYPSO aims…

Jelena Strišković and Tomislav Terzić participated in the second annual conference of the COST Action CA23130 BridgeQG, “Bridging High and Low Energies in Search of Quantum Gravity 2026”, which took place from 6th to 9th of July 2026 in Varna, Bulgaria. Tomislav Terzić gave a talk on “LIV-modified gamma-ray absorption: Lessons from GRB 221009A”, based…

Paper “Is there new physics beyond 30 TeV in the BOAT?” (DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2026.102389) was published in Physics of the Dark Universe. The authors are Filip Reščić, Luis Recabarren Vergara, Michele Doro (University of Padova), and Tomislav Terzić. The paper can also be found in ArXiv: 2511.15542. BOAT (brightest of all time) refers to GRB 221009A,…

Filip Reščić, Jelena Strišković, and Tomislav Terzić participated in the second Training School of the COST Action CA23130 BridgeQG (Bridging high and low energies in search of quantum gravity), “Quantum and classical gravity in low-energy quantum systems”, held in Belgrade, Serbia, from 22nd to 26th of June 2026. Tomislav Terzić was one of the organisers…

The Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) approved the postdoctoral research project of Maykoll Anthonny Reyes Hung, “Collinear Approximation of Photon Interactions in a Consistent Lorentz-Violating Extension”, within the call PDIP-2026 (Postdoctoral Research Projects). The results of the call were published on 1st of June 2026. The project will be carried out at the Faculty of Physics…

The international science outreach festival Pint of Science took place from 18th to 20th of May 2026 in Rijeka and Zagreb. Tomislav Terzić was one of the organisers of the Rijeka edition. On 20th of May he gave a public talk “Nabori u prostor-vremenu” (Wrinkles in space-time) at Klub Palach in Rijeka. Pint of Science…