Work Activities We are seeking an excellent and motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team at AMOLF, working on fundamental questions on physical self-learning systems as part of the NWO ENW‑M1 project “How do physical learning systems learn?” . The r…
Work Activities Many molecules and crystals exist in two mirror-image forms (left- and right-handed). Yet in nature, and especially in living systems, often one handedness dominates . How can a system in which left and right are energetically equivalent still…
Work Activities How do you make a light source that is directional, has a controlled wavefront, and a controlled polarization out of an intrinsically incoherent and disordered set of emitters, like fluorophores in an LED phosphor? This is a defining question …
Work Activities Lensless imaging and computational imaging are techniques to reconstruct the shape of an object by measuring its diffraction pattern for a diversity of illuminations, as opposed to using imaging optics as one does in a microscope to create a r…
Work Activities How do you shape light extremely fast and with high precision? Can you make programmable pixels that are fed light by integrated optics, and that can be programmed to project a designer beam, focus, or wavefront into free space? The goal of th…
Work Activities Inhibitory immunoreceptors play an essential role in maintaining immune homeostasis. In our lab we study leukocyte-associated immunoglobulin-like receptor 1 (LAIR-1), an inhibitory pattern recognition receptor that is activated by collagens an…
Work Activities Hydrogels form a special class of form-stable, elastic materials that consist of a (polymer) network and a large amount of water. In this project you will use advanced nonlinear spectroscopic techniques to study biological hydrogels and supram…
Work Activities Recent studies have shown that defects in metallic plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) could increase the reaction rate of catalytic reactions. These atomic defects can result in lattice strain and can for example be caused by excitation with ultraf…
Work Activities In this project, you will explore the interaction between high-energy electrons and intense nanostructured light fields in a scanning electron microscope. During this interaction, electrons can absorb or emit one or more photon energy quanta, …