SYPT 2025 Schedule
The schedule for the SYPT 2025 has been fixed. The tournament will be held in the ETH Zurich main building (Rämistrasse 101).
The schedule for the SYPT 2025 has been fixed. The tournament will be held in the ETH Zurich main building (Rämistrasse 101).
The International Young Physicists' Tournament 2026 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland!
More information soon to be available on our new website iypt.ch. You can also follow us on Instagram, @iypt2026, or LinkedIn.
We're already looking forward to a great tournament!
The SYPT 2025 will be held at ETH Zürich on March 22nd & 23rd.
The Physics Week at MNG Rämibühl will take place from February 10th to February 14th. In addition, we organize online coaching sessions to answer any questions about the SYPT; if you are interested, please write to
Looking forward to a great SYPT!
The problems for the IYPT 2025 have been published on the official IYPT website. These will also be the problems posed for the SYPT 2025.
In order to help the students with their preparation, we organize the SYPT Online Coaching, where the participants can ask general questions about the SYPT or get help to get started with a specific problem. If you are a participant and interested, or if you would like to know more about the SYPT before signing up, please feel free to contact
The Swiss team won their third silver medal at the 37th IYPT in Budapest, Hungary!
This year’s delegation consisted of Eric Kamm (captain), Harald Martinussen, Adrian Rothfritz, Marc Schildknecht and Rachel Silveira Camargo as well as their coaches Chengjie Hu (team leader), Daniel Keller (experienced juror), Samuel Norton (team leader juror), Eric Schertenleib (EC, experienced juror) and Malte Uthoff (visitor).
After not participating in the 2023 IYPT, we were very happy to see the Swiss team score 198.8 points, which earned them 7th place in the largest IYPT ever with 38 countries from all over the world participating. Congratulations to all!
For the first time, the Swiss team won the International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT). In Timisoara, Romania, the team of Jan Kamm (Captain), Anja Christina Duevel, David Fankhauser, Chengjie Hu, and Joel Tan won the title of Physics world champion. The students were coached by Ophélie Rivière, Jakob Storp, Daniel Keller, Eric Schertenleib, and Michael Klein.
The SYPT 2024 was held on March 16th and March 17th at the physics department of the University of Basel. A total of 25 students participated in 9 teams and presented their solutions to 11 different problems.
The team Quantum Fluid consisting of Marc Schildknecht, Eric Kamm and Adrian Rothfritz won the tense final Physics fight with Adrian Rothfritz also winning in the individual ranking.