• Vibrant Metamaterials2025

    The conference Metamaterials2025 brought together 400 researchers from around the world to share their results and vision. Metamaterials was held at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam from September 2 – 6.

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  • June and July doctorate celebrations

    Fotios Avgidis - Criticality and Diversity in a Bacterial Sensory Network – June 6th Fotios Avgidis successfully defended his thesis ‘Criticality and diversity in a bacterial sensory network’ at Vrije …

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  • Spring brings many Doctorate Celebrations

    Burak Demirbas - Stress-induced protein dynamics and growth arrest in C. elegans during development - May 16th   Burak did his doctoral research in the group of Jeroen van Zon. He …

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  • Infomatter symposium: taking advantage of information in a system

    On Thursday, May 22nd, AMOLF organized the Infomatter Symposium to discuss exciting developments in information processing — ranging from biochemical to mechanical and optical systems. What these systems share is …

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  • OTP project Femius Koenderink receives funding

    AMOLF group leader and UvA professor Femius Koenderink has received funding from the NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences for the OTP project entitled ‘Integrated nanophotonic and extreme-ultraviolet access to …

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  • Femius Koenderink elected 2022 Optica Fellow

    The Optica (formerly OSA) Board of Directors has elected Femius Koenderink to the 2022 Fellows Class. He is one of the 106 members to be honored this year. Koenderink was …

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  • Hugo Doeleman wint NWO Natuurkunde Proefschrift Prijs 2019

    Vandaag werd bekend gemaakt dat AMOLF/UvA promovendus Hugo Doeleman de NWO Natuurkunde Proefschrift Prijs 2019 heeft gewonnen. Doeleman promoveerde op 18 januari cum laude aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam met …

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  • Cum Laude for Hugo Doeleman

    On January 18th Hugo Doeleman defended his PhD thesis ‘Hybrid resonators for light trapping and emission control’ at the University of Amsterdam. Doeleman obtained the Cum Laude degree for his …

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  • Physicists catch light in the eye of the storm

    Stillness rules the eye of a hurricane; without a hurricane no eye, and without an eye no hurricane. In a similar manner, physicists of research institute AMOLF, the University of …

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  • Amsterdamse natuurkundigen vangen licht in het oog van de storm

    In het midden van een orkaan is het rustig; zonder orkaan geen oog, zonder oog geen orkaan. Maar niet alleen orkanen hebben een oog blijkt nu. Natuurkundigen van onderzoeksinstituut AMOLF …

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