Scientific Internship: Brownian ratchets with nanomechanical resonators
Heat arises from the random agitation of atoms and molecules. Because thermal agitation is random, it is very difficult to extract useful work from it: If we connect an object …
Scientific Internship: Can bacteria learn by association?
Associative learning, the process by which an organism develops through experience a relationship between two environmental events, is a hallmark of animal behavior. It is well-established that diverse animals, from …
Scientific Internship: Criticality in the bacterial brain
Many biological systems, arguably even the human brain, are tuned at criticality, the tipping point between order and disorder. Recently, by measuring random (thermal) fluctuations in a protein signaling circuit …
Scientific Internship: Soft fluidic sensors for autonomous soft robots
The Soft Robotic Matter group at AMOLF is looking for an interns at the Master’s level from a range of backgrounds (including Physics, Mathematics and Engineering) that will work on …
Scientific Internship: 3D printing of soft robots with embedded smart fluidic circuits
The Soft Robotic Matter group at AMOLF is looking for research interns at the Master’s level from a range of backgrounds (Engineering, Physics, Materials Science) that will work on 3D …
Scientific Internship: Building a microfluidic device to make “minimal cells"
In bottom-up synthetic biology, researchers try to build a minimal cell from scratch and from well-defined components. Giant lipid vesicles are frequently used to mimic a cell’s membrane. As an …
Scientific Internship: Crystal Structures by Design
Can we program particles to self-assemble into regular crystal structures by properly designing the interactions between these particles? This is a question that belongs to a novel class of inverse …
Scientific 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 …
