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
Ellen Zheng (PhD student)
Active chains and colloidal superstructures
Room C4.234
Email: t.zheng-at-uva.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
PhD position
Spectral conversion layers for enhancing photosynthesis in algae growth
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:
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Marcel Kouwenhoven (MSc student)
2D material – nanocrystal heterostructures
Room:
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Bauke v.d. Vorm (MSc student)
2D material heterostructures (MoS2 – ReS2)
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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.