Mission

AMOLF’s mission is to initiate and perform leading fundamental research on the physics of complex forms of matter, and to create new functional materials, in partnership with academia and industry.

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The AMOLF way

1. Focus on excellent science
2. Obtain outstanding technical infrastructure
3. Initiate and develop new scientific topics
4. Keep the organization and the research groups relatively small
5. Collaborate with colleagues, universities and academia
6. Facilitate social cohesion

Facts & Figures

AMOLF is part of the institutes organisation of NWO

In 2019

• 95 scientific publications (40 % in High Impact Factor journals)
• 12 PhD theses
• 213 employees:
  19 post-doctoral researchers, 61 PhD students, guests and masterstudents
  13 tenured group leaders
  4 tenure track group leaders
  83 support staff
• M€ 15 yearly turnover:
  M€ 9.3 base funding from NWO/FOM
  M€ 5.7 project funding from competitive calls

Partners

AMOLF researchers operate in a global network of collaborative partners. AMOLF maintains close connections with Dutch universities and other research institutes. Senior researchers from AMOLF are also a professor at a Dutch university, AMOLF PhD students obtain their doctorates from a Dutch university and university students do internships at AMOLF. Most research projects are realized in collaboration with university colleagues.