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Prof. Dr. Peter Schall
Chair Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Room C4.228
Tel. +31 20 525 6314
Email: p.schall-at-uva.nl
Postdocs
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Dr. Yingying Tang
Nanocrystal Synthesis and Assembly
Room C4.234b
y.tang2-at-uva.nl
PhD students
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Nick Koppasis (PhD student)
Active colloidal architectures
Room: C4.232
E-mail: n.oikonomeaskoppasis – at – uva.nl
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Susan Rigter (PhD student, shared with Prof. E. Garnett, Amolf)
Assembly of perovskite nanocrystals for photovoltaic films
Room: C4.234b
Email: S.Rigter – at- amolf.nl
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Nelson de Gaay Fortman (PhD student, shared with Prof. F. Koenderink, Amolf)
Active optical metasurfaces
Amolf
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Ina Flaucher (PhD student)
Spectral conversion layers for enhancing photosynthesis in algae growth (with IBED, Prof. Huisman)
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Abhishek Gupta (PhD student)
Flow and contact networks of superlubric colloids for friction reduction
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Liu Qiuyu (Phd student)
Flow-induced assembly of proteins and patchy particle models
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Dongdong Zhou (PhD student)
Superlubric properties of fullerene particle ensembles – simulations
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Congcong Diao (PhD student)
Aggregation and rheology of plant-protein-based gels
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PhD position on structuring of protein gels for meat analogues
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PhD position on 2D material detectors for next-.generation sensors in high-energy physics
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PhD position on Nanocrystal layers for spectral shaping applications to enhance photosynthesis (EU project SUN PERFORM)
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PhD position on 2D materials as single photon emitters for photonic quantum computers.
Master Students
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Joppe Floor (MSc student)
Scalable dry synthesis of 2D perovskite nanocrystals for spectral shaping applications
Alumni
- Dr. Marco van der Laan, PhD Thesis “Optical Spectroscopy of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors – Investigating Charge and Energy Transfer Processes”
- Dr. Piet Swinkels, PhD Thesis “Colloidal Architectures – Atom-like Assembly of Patchy Particles”
- Dr. Ankit Goyal, Ball milling synthesis of silicon and perovskite nanocrystals
- Dr. Janne-Mieke Meijer, Veni postdoc, Assembly of colloidal cubes by critical Casimir forces, now Assistant Professor at TU Eindhoven.
- Joep Rouwhorst, PhD “Nonequilibrium network
formation in soft materials” (2020), now at ABN AMRO. - Simon Stuij, PhD “Colloidal Design: Building, Bending and Breaking” (2019), now teacher at University of Amsterdam.
- Emanuele Marino, PhD “Assembling nanocrystal superstructures“, now postdoc at U Penn (Chris Murray group)
- Dr. Laura Rossi, Veni postdoc, Designer magnetic colloids, now Assistant Professor at TU Delft
- Dr. Thomas Kodger, Postdoc, Colloidal physics, now Assistant Professor at Wageningen University
- Dr. Dolf Timmermans, Postdoc, Optoelectronic properties of quantum dots, now Assistant Professor at Osaka University.
- Dr. Benjamin Bruhn, Postdoc Colloidal quantum dots, now Manager at PwC accounting
- Dr. Dmitry Denisov, Postdoc Complexity: Granular avalanches and Traffic Modelling, now Credit Risk Modeller at Rabobank.
- Truc Anh Nguyen, PhD Self Assembly of Anisotropic Particles with
Critical Casimir Forces - Dang Minh Triet, PhD Non-equilibrium transitions in
colloidal glasses and gels, now Assistant Professor at Can Tho University. - Daniel Miedema PhD Transport in Complex Driven
Systems, now Research Associate at Amsterdam Medical Center (UMC). - Dr. Sandra Veen, Postdoc Colloidal aggregation in microgravity, now Senior Research Scientist at Electric Ant Lab.
- Yasser Rahmani, PhD Micromechanics and rheology of hard and soft-sphere colloidal glasses, now R&D Director at O2G.
- Duc Nguyen PhD Phase transitions and interfaces in temperature-sensitive colloidal systems, now Data Scientist at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science.
- Dr. Kinga Lörincz Postdoc Critical scaling in granular matter, now Head Of Content at Enlight Ed.
- Chantal Carpentier PhD Three-dimensional visualization of contact networks in granular material (joint with Molecular Photonics Group), now Restaurator Paintings (Amsterdam).
- Vijayakumar Chikkadi, PhD Spatial correlations and deformation
modes in sheared colloidal glasses, now Assistant Professor at IIser Pune.