• · PhD positions

    PhD-student: Vibrating structures you can talk to: speech recognition with micro-mechanical neural networks

    In the tale Ali Baba and the Forty thieves, saying ‘Open Sesame!’ opens the entrance to the thieves’ cave. Until now, the idea that an unpowered, inanimate object like a …

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    PhD-student: Nanophotonics and quantum physics with electrons and light

    Did you know high-energy electrons can serve as efficient sources of optical excitation of matter? Our group has developed cathodoluminescence microscopy, in which we use 1-30 keV electrons in a …

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  • · Postdoc positions

    Postdoc: Nanophotonics and quantum physics with electrons and light

    Did you know high-energy electrons can serve as efficient sources of optical excitation of matter? Our group has developed cathodoluminescence microscopy, in which we use 1-30 keV electrons in a …

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  • · Postdoc positions

    Postdoc: Biophysics of symbiotic networks and communities

    Symbiotic partnerships can drive the evolution of remarkably complex social behaviors, even in simple organisms. Recent experiments provide evidence that symbiotic microbes demonstrate transport and trade behaviors reminiscent of human …

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  • · Scientific Internships

    Internship: Decentralized learning of locomotion in modular soft robots

    The Soft Robotic Matter group at AMOLF is looking for interns at the Master level from a range of backgrounds (including physics, mathematics and engineering) that will work on the …

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  • · Scientific Internships

    Internship: The cost of erasing one optical bit

    In 1961 Rolf Landauer made a groundbreaking discovery: Information is Physical. Landauer showed that erasing one bit of information—an elementary step in computation—requires at least kBT ln(2) of energy. Recently, …

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  • · Scientific Internships

    Internship: Light-induced superconductivity

    Superconductivity is a fascinating state of matter where electron pairs flow without resistance. Superconductivity at ambient temperature and pressure is the greatest unfulfilled dream in physics and materials science. Recently, …

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