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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…
Postdoc Fanny Thorimbert wins prize for PhD thesis
AMOLF postdoc Fanny Thorimbert (Nanoscale Solar Cells) received the prize for best PhD thesis from the French C'Nano, which is a national competency cluster in Nanoscience that is part of…
Moving massive amounts of CO2 underground: research shows how plant-fungal networks drive nutrient flows that support ecosystems
Plant-fungal network research on front page of Nature magazine on March 6th 2025. The cover shows a microscopy image of a mycorrhizal fungus that forms a…
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…
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…
Universal warning signal for optical damage onset
Universal and easy-to-measure warning signals for catastrophic damage occur in the metals used to transport data in computer chips. That is what ARCNL PhD student Ester Abram discovered and described…
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…
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…