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Work ActivitiesWe are seeking a motivated PhD student to join our team working on realizing learning in novel physical materials, as part of a joint theoretical/experimental research project between AMOLF and the University of Amsterdam (UvA).Living systems capture our imagination in their incredible resilience and ability to adapt and prosper in the face of change....

Work Activities We are seeking a motivated PhD- student to join our teams working on bistable elements for in-materia computing, as part of a joint theoretical/experimental program carried out at AMOLF (Amsterdam) and TU/e (Eindhoven). Computing with artificial neurons takes inspiration from nature’s efficient, adaptive use of multistable networks, offering an alternative to energy-intensive digital....

Since their invention, nearly all solar cells have utilized silicon as the active semiconductor. Recently, perovskite semiconductors have emerged as a new material that can be deposited from an ink, enabling the printing of highly efficient solar cells on foil. Perovskite solar cells offer the potential for faster scaling, reduced costs, and easier integration compared....

Are you fascinated by the idea of using light for all-optical information processing? Are you motivated to contribute to new technologies that realize radical improvements in the energy efficiency of information and communication technology? As part of the Dutch consortium NL-ECO on energy-efficient computing, AMOLF is seeking a talented and motivated candidate for an open....

Work Activities ————— Scientific background – The energy consumption of computers is a significant scientific and societal problem: Information technology is already responsible for more CO2 emissions than the airline industry. At the fundamental level, the energy cost of a computation is dictated by the laws of thermodynamics: computations must evolve in time in a....

Work Activities ————— Did you know high-energy electrons can serve as efficient sources of optical excitation of matter? Our group has developed cathodoluminescence (CL) microscopy, in which we use 1-30 keV electrons in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to excite nanomaterials. The oscillating electric field carried by the electron serves as a broadband (0-30 eV)....

Work ActivitiesSummary – In this project, you will perform innovative (bio)physics experiments to elucidate the dynamic action of individual ribosomes. The key methodologies are optical tweezers, single-molecule fluorescence, as well as selective ribosome profiling – an exciting new RNA sequencing method. Working in the Tans biophysics lab @ AMOLF Amsterdam, you will visualize the real-time....

Work ActivitiesSummary – In this project, you will perform innovative (bio)physics experiments to elucidate the dynamic action of individual ribosomes. The key methodologies are optical tweezers, single-molecule fluorescence, as well as selective ribosome profiling – an exciting new RNA sequencing method. Working in the Tans biophysics lab @ AMOLF Amsterdam, you will visualize the real-time....

Work ActivitiesSummary – In this project, you will perform innovative (bio)physics experiments to elucidate the dynamic action of individual ribosomes, and how they relate to mRNA structure. The key methodologies are optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence, as well as selective ribosome profiling – an exciting new RNA sequencing method. Working in the Tans biophysics lab....

Work ActivitiesWe are seeking a motivated PhD – student to join our team working on the theory of computing and learning in physical systems, as part of a joint theoretical/experimental program on Smart Materials for Information Processing.With increasing demands on computing and its accompanying energy consumption, there is a pressing need for alternatives to conventional....

Work ActivitiesIn this project, you will use advanced microscopy and quantitative analysis to solve an important fundamental question: how cells in embryos keep track of time, to execute their functions at exactly the right stage of development. You will address this question in the nematode worm C. elegans. Using a quantitative, physics-inspired approach, you will....

In this project, you will perform innovative (bio)physics experiments to elucidate the dynamic action of individual ribosomes. The key methodologies are optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence, as well as selective ribosome profiling – an exciting new RNA sequencing method. Working in the Tans biophysics lab @ AMOLF Amsterdam, you will visualize the real-time translation activity....

In this project, you will perform innovative (bio)physics experiments to elucidate the dynamic action of individual ribosomes. The key methodologies are optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence, as well as selective ribosome profiling – an exciting new RNA sequencing method. Working in the Tans biophysics lab @ AMOLF Amsterdam, you will visualize the real-time translation activity....

Work Activities Sensing is vital to all information processing systems, ranging from human-made devices to living matter. An important question in this context is whether cooperativity can improve the sensing performance of otherwise isolated parts of a system. In other words: Are two (or more) coupled sensors better than one? This question has inspired major....

As the perovskite layer quality increases, the surfaces and interfaces begin to dominate the remaining efficiency loss. The Si PV industry has developed standardized tools and protocols for rapidly screening new passivation and contact materials and quantifying their quality. There is so far no comparable standardization in halide perovskite PV which hampers further efficiency improvements.....

The group at AMOLF is looking for a PhD student to join our team working on nanomechanical systems in the quantum regime. Our group is fascinated by the ability of light to measure and control mechanical motion in new and powerful ways. In a new project, in collaboration with multiple European partners, we seek to....

In this project you will contribute to realization of solar cells with a photovoltaic power conversion efficiency that can ultimately exceed 40%. It is focused on tandem solar cells, which are composed of two semiconductors that are stacked on top of each other, in which the top cell catches the blue/green part of the solar....

Work ActivitiesSurfactants are among the most used chemicals, fulfilling important roles in cleaning, as emulsifiers, and as foaming and wetting agents. Surfactants also play a crucial role in living systems, e.g. in the formation and functioning of membranes.In this project you will study the interfacial properties of aqueous solutions of commonly used surfactants with advanced....

Work ActivitiesThe world is facing a tremendous challenge in limiting global warming resulting from the burning of fossil fuels. Over the last decades, a lot of progress has been made in the harvesting of sustainable energy by solar panels and wind turbines. However, to truly establish an energy-sustainable society, we also need to store sustainable....

Recombination junctions are required for tandem and multijunction solar cells in order to short together the positive contact from one sub-cell to the negative contact of the adjacent sub-cell. This layer ideally would not introduce any electrical loss, while also providing transmission to the longer wavelength photons (for the bottom sub-cell) and diffuse reflectance for....

As a postdoc in the Physics of Cellular Interactions group headed by Dr. Kristina Ganzinger and the Biophysics group headed by Sander Tans, you will analyse the spatiotemporal dynamics of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) signalling in live T cells with different biophysical techniques. The central question of this project is: To answer it, you will....

In this project, you will use advanced 3D imaging and AI-driven cell tracking to reveal the remarkable self-organization of cells within intestinal organoids. Using a biophysics approach, you will study how stem cells move, grow, divide, and differentiate into specific functional cell types, and hence reveal how functional miniature organs are formed. Specifically, you will....

As postdoc member of the REPRESSIT (http://www.repressit.eu) consortium coordinated the Physics of Cellular Interactions group headed by Dr. Kristina Ganzinger, you will work on developing a new type of cancer therapeutic (checkpoint inhibitor) in a biophysical project right at the interface of biochemistry, biophysics and immunology in an EIC-funded European consortium. Checkpoint blockage focuses on....

Work Activities ————— The Hybrid Nanosystems group at NWO-Institute AMOLF is looking for a postdoc for investigating light-induced processes in situ inside the transmission electron microscope (TEM). Modern TEMs now can routinely visualize materials all the way down to the atomic level, revealing unexpected insights into the influence of chemical structure on material properties. At....

AMOLF is a part of NWO-I and initiate and performs leading fundamental research on the physics of complex forms of matter, and to create new functional materials, in partnership with academia and industry. The institute is located at Amsterdam Science Park and currently employs about 140 researchers and 80 support employees. www.amolf.nl (http://www.amolf.nl) In the....

Eco-design, or sustainable design, plays a crucial role in the development of solar cells by minimizing environmental impact through use of resources, energy conservation and emissions. In Si heterojunction (SHTJ) cells, reducing the silicon wafer thickness enables more active solar cell area per kg of Si, which potentially reduces costs and improves energy returns. Thinner....

In this project, you will perform innovative (bio)physics experiments to elucidate the activity of individual ribosomes. The key methodologies are optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence. Working in the Tans biophysics lab @ AMOLF Amsterdam, you will visualize the real-time translation activity of ribosomes, how multiple ribosomes work together, detect the folding of individual polypeptide chains,....

In this project, you will perform innovative (bio)physics experiments to elucidate the activity of individual ribosomes. The key methodologies are optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence. Working in the Tans biophysics lab @ AMOLF Amsterdam, you will visualize the real-time translation activity of ribosomes, how multiple ribosomes work together, detect the folding of individual polypeptide chains,....

The Learning Machines group seeks motivated PhD students to join our team working on learning in physical systems. What are learning machines? Imagine your favorite artificial intelligence machine learning system figuring out how to solve a task, possibly classifying images of cats and dogs; now imagine a physical material doing the same thing – without....

In this project, you will perform innovative (bio)physics experiments to elucidate the dynamic action of ubiquitin-processing enzymes. The key methodologies are optical tweezers and single-molecule fluorescence. Working in the Tans biophysics lab @ AMOLF Amsterdam, you will visualize how enzymes such as Cdc48/p97 bind, unfold, and translocate unfolded ubiquitin molecules through their central pore, and....