Prof. Dr. Peter Schall
Chair Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Room C4.228
Tel. +31 20 525 6314
Email: p.schall-at-uva.nl
Postdocs
Dr. Yingying Tang
Nanocrystal Synthesis and Assembly
Room C4.234b
y.tang2-at-uva.nl
Dr. Ankit Goyal
Silicon Nanocrystals, ball milling, laser ablation
Room C4.234b
a.goyal-at-uva.nl
Dr. Maryam Mohammadi
Perovskite nanocrystal films for PV and LED devices
Room:
PhD students
Piet Swinkels (PhD student)
Assembly of colloidal molecules from patchy particles
Room C4.234
Tel. +31 20 525 5627
Email: piet-at-swnkls.nl
Marco van der Laan (PhD student)
2D materials for photovoltaics
Room C4.234b
Email: m.vanderlaan-at-uva.nl
Nick Koppasis (PhD student)
Active colloidal architectures
Room: C4.232
E-mail: n.oikonomeaskoppasis – at – uva.nl
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
Nelson de Gaay Fortman (PhD student, shared with Prof. F. Koenderink, Amolf)
Active optical metasurfaces
Amolf
Fuzhen Zhou (Chinese fellowship PhD student)
Microscopy of protein-based pickering emulsions
Room: C4.234b
Lu Hou (Chinese fellowship PhD student)
Two-dimensional perovskites
Room: C4.234b
Carlo Dibenedetto (Internship PhD student)
Nanocrystal superstructures
Room: C4.234b
Ina Flaucher (PhD student)
Spectral conversion layers for enhancing photosynthesis in algae growth (with IBED, Prof. Huisman)
PhD position
Flow and contact networks of superlubric colloids for friction reduction
Master Students
Daan Methorst (MSc student)
Nanocrystal layers for photovoltaic films
Room:
Email:
Jasmin Fisher (MSc student)
Spectral conversion layers for algal yield enhancement
Room:
Email:
Marcel Kouwenhoven (MSc student)
2D material – nanocrystal heterostructures
Room:
Email:
Bauke v.d. Vorm (MSc student)
2D material heterostructures (MoS2 – ReS2)
Room:
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Alumni
- 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.