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  • These structures shrink when pulled

    Discovery unlocks new exotic properties for soft robotics, smart devices, and more.  When you pull something—like a rubber band—you expect it to get longer. But what if it did the …

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  • Max Kerr Winter receives Ammodo Fellowship for fungi research project

    On April 3rd, the Ammodo foundation announced that AMOLF/VU researcher Max Kerr Winter is one of the five recipients of the Ammodo Fellowship. The Ammodo Foundation stimulates the development of …

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  • Bruno Ehrler Receives 2025 Energy Lectureship Award at ACS Spring Conference in San Diego

    We’re very proud to share that AMOLF Group Leader Bruno Ehrler received the 2025 Energy Lectureship Award at the ACS Spring 2025 conference in San Diego! This prize was awarded …

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  • AMOLF PhD student Tom Aarts: Faces of Science representative

    Today, the KNAW presented the new Faces of Science, and AMOLF researcher Tom Aarts (Physics of Cellular Interactions) is one of them.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR69Xif1NC8 Tom is happy with this opportunity to …

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  • Said Rodriguez new Professor of Emergence and information in light 

    We are honored to announce that AMOLF group leader Said Rodriguez has been appointed Professor of ‘Emergence and information in light’ as of 1 April 2025. His Chair by special …

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  • Moving massive amounts of CO2 underground: research shows how plant-fungal networks drive nutrient flows that support ecosystems

    A study published online in Nature on February 26th has revealed how plants and fungi construct networks that operate as hyper-efficient ‘supply chains,’ moving billions of tons of CO2 underground.

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  • Three months – Three PhD celebrations  

    In the past three months, three AMOLF PhD students successfully defended their thesis at a Dutch university. Their names are Christiaan van Campenhout, Susan Rigter and Balázs Antalicz.   Christiaan van …

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  • Live experiment on WNL op Zondag TV program by Wim Noorduin

    Yesterday, Wim Noorduin demonstrated the lead detection test developed by him and his research team on the Dutch-language TV program WNL op Zondag. NWO president Marcel Levi, a regular guest …

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  • New process creates ordered semiconductor material at room temperature

    Scientists of the University of Twente, research institute AMOLF and the University of Oxford have developed a way to create highly ordered semiconductor material at room temperature. This research, which …

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  • Climate envoy visits AMOLF to learn how fungal networks contribute to CO2 drawdown and storage underground 

    On January 8th, a delegation led by the Netherlands’ Climate Envoy, Jaime de Bourbon de Parme, visited the AMOLF lab of Tom Shimizu. Researchers in Tom’s group are developing new …

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