Virtual AMOLF Open Day for prospective PhD’s and postdocs | Monday, April 24, 2023
Are you looking for a PhD or Postdoc position?
Would you like to advance the solar cells of the future, design soft robotic hearts that don’t harm patients, discover how immune cells recognize cancer cells, or learn from bacteria to build more efficient computers? Then a PhD or postdoc at AMOLF may be for you. AMOLF is the Dutch National Institute for the physics of functional complex matter, located in the centre of Amsterdam. We conduct world-leading research to solve the most pressing challenges of our time in a collaborative and supportive atmosphere.
At the Open Day you have the chance to visit AMOLF virtually, learn about the projects that are available, and directly interact with your potential future supervisor. The Virtual Open Day takes place online, on Monday April 24th at 3PM. You can register for the event here. Too late? Explore our positions here.
What to expect
In this online event you will get a chance to explore the working environment at AMOLF. We will start with an introduction by our director, followed by brief talks by AMOLF students explaining what it is like do a PhD or postdoc here. Then you will have a chance to ask questions about the available projects directly to the AMOLF group leaders, and to further explore what it is like to work at AMOLF.
For whom?
The event is targeted at potential PhD students and postdocs with a background in physics, chemistry or engineering. We encourage people from all over the world to participate. AMOLF offers a highly international and collaborative working environment. The projects immediately available can be seen via the navigation menu, but we also welcome participants who wish to inform themselves about AMOLF with the perspective to apply for future openings.
About AMOLF
AMOLF is the Dutch national institute for the physics of functional complex matter. We work on energy materials, autonomous matter and information matter. These interdisciplinary topics are connected by shared infrastructure, a collaborative spirit, and five expertise centres where we share knowledge. The mission of AMOLF 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.
The AMOLF way
- Focus on excellent science
- Obtain outstanding technical infrastructure
- Initiate and develop new scientific topics
- Keep the organization and the research groups relatively small
- Collaborate with colleagues, universities and academia
- Facilitate social cohesion
Sample of AMOLF research topics
Self-organised chemical reactions for generating adaptive nano-structures, Autonomous pressure driven soft robots, Spatial protein organization underlying immune-cell recognition, Ribosome-driven protein assembly at the single-molecule level, Cellular differentiation and organisation at the single cell level, Ion migration in perovskite solar cells, Nanostructured solar cells, Metasurfaces to for optical computing, Electrochemistry on the nanoscale, Atomic-scale structure-property relationships, Ultrafast spectroscopy to study water solutions, Self-assembly inspired by natureinformation processing in natural and artificial systems, photonic and mechanical metamaterials, stochastic thermodynamics, optomechanics and sensing
AMOLF consists of 20 research groups lead by Erik Garnett [Nanoscale Solar Cells], Esther Alarcon Llado [3D Photovoltaics], Wiebke Albrecht [Hybrid Nanosystems], Huib Bakker [Ultrafast Spectroscopy], Bruno Ehrler [Hybrid Solar Cells], Wim Noorduin [Self-Organizing Matter, Albert Polman [Phononic Metamaterials], Femius Koenderink [Resonant Nanophotonics], Martin van Hecke [Mechanical Metamaterials], Said Rodriguez [Interacting Photons], Marc Serra-Garcia [Hypersmart matter], Tom Shimizu [Systems Biology], Ewold Verhagen [Photonic Forces], Pieter-Rein ten Wolde [Biochemical Networks], Sander Tans [Biophysics], Kristina Ganzinger [Physics of Cellular Interactions], Bela Mulder [Theory of Biomolecular Matter], Wim Noorduin [Self-Organizing Matter], Bas Overvelde [Soft Robotic Matter], Jeroen van Zon [Quantitative Developmental Biology].