View our past thesis defenses
Find an overview of the past thesis defenses of the Physics and Astronomy department at VU Amsterdam.
Natuur- en sterrenkunde phd's
Thesis defenses in Department Physics and Astronomy
-
2025
Chunyu Lu
Biomedical and Environmental Sensing through Tapered Tip Optical Fibers and On-chip Microcavities
Promotor: dr. F. Ariese
Copromotor: dr. B.I. Avci
Defence: 28 May 2025
More information on the thesis
Xin Liu
Photoprotective responses in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
Defence: 28 May 2025
More information on the thesis
Wouter Mul
Shining light on motor regulation in the cilium
Promotor: prof. dr. ir. E.J.G. Peterman
Copromotor: dr. ir. I. Heller
Defence: 17 April 2025
More information on the thesis
Vadim Bogatyr
Light & sound
Promotor: prof. dr. ir. G.J.L. Wuite
Copromotor: prof. dr. ir. E.J.G. Peterman
Defence: 10 April 2025
More information on the thesis
Johannes Kuebler
Quantitative Tissue Characterization with Optical Coherence Tomography
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F. de Boer
Copromotor: prof. dr. A. Amelink
Defence: 08 April 2025
More information on the thesis
Massimiliano Berardi
Hydraulic Force Spectroscopy
Promotor: prof. dr. ir. G.J.L. Wuite
Copromotor: dr. B.I. Avci
Defence: 04 April 2025
More information on the thesis
Giacomo Magni
A high-resolution imaging of the collinear substructure of the proton
Promotor: prof. dr. J. Rojo
Copromotor: dr. M. Senghi Soares
Defence: 04 April 2025
More information on the thesis
Johannes Mathijssen
High-order harmonic generation in laser-produced plasmas
Promotor: dr. S.M. Witte, prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defence:25 March 2025
More information on the thesis
Anders Rehult
CP Violation in Rare B-Meson Decays
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Fleischer
Copromotor: dr. K.K. Vos
Defence: 14 March 2025
More information on the thesis
Alexandra Mitchell
HoQI - Low-noise Interferometric Sensors for the Future of Gravitational Wave Detectors
Promotor: prof. dr. A. Freise
Copromotor: dr. C.M. Mow-Lowry
Defence: 06 March 2025
More information on the thesis
Liam Gerard O'Shaughnessy
On the 3D Social Behavior of Zebrafish
Promotor: dr. Greg Stephens
Copromotor: prof. dr. Erwin Peterman
Defence: 20 January 2025
More information on the thesis
Yahia Mostafa
Mass & Energy Efficient Tin Laser Produced Plasma Light Sources
Promotor: prof. dr. Oscar Versolato
Copromotor: dr. John Sheil
Defence: 10 January 2025
More information on the thesis
Jongejan Jacobus ter Hoeve
Fingerprinting New Physics with Effective Field Theories
Promotor: prof. dr. Juan Rojo
Copromotor: prof. dr. Wouter Verkerke
Defence: 8 January 2025
More information on the thesis -
2024
Eleftheria Malami
The Beauty of Flavour Physics: B Meson Decays: Do They Reveal New Physics?
Promotor: prof. dr. R Fleischer
Copromotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk
Defence:6 November 2024
More information on the thesis
Frank Cozijn
High-Precision Rovibrational Saturation Spectroscopy of H2, HD and HT
Promotor: prof. dr. W M G Ubachs
Copromotor: dr. E J Salumbides
Defence: 25 October 2024
More information on the thesis
Eduard Elias
Coloring Outside The Lines: Harvesting far-red photons for photosynthesis
Promotor: prof. dr. R Croce
Defence: 30 September 2024
Section: Biophysics of Photosynthesis
More information on the thesis
Xiaomeng Liu
Title Spectrally Resolved Extreme Ultraviolet Lensless Imaging With High Order Harmonic Generation Sources
Promotor: dr. S.M. Witte, prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defence: 16 September 2024
Section: Quantum Metrology and Laser Applications
More information on the thesis
Ruben Jaarsma
B-Meson Decays as Probes of New Physics
Promoter: prof. dr. R Fleischer
Copromotor: Prof. dr. Piet Mulders
Defence:26 June 2024
Section: (Astro-) Particle Physics
More information on the thesis
Valeriia Lukashenko
Measurement of CP-violation in decays of strange beauty mesons
Promoter: prof. dr. H.G. Raven
Copromotor: dr. W.D. Hulsbergen
Defence: 28 May 2024
Section: (Astro-) Particle Physics
More information on the thesisGiulia Bergamaschi
Making waves: active microrheology of complex systems
Promoter: prof. dr. ir. G.J.L. Wuite
Copromotor: prof.dr.ir. E.J.G. Peterman
Defence: 3 May 2024
Section: Physics of Living System
More information on the thesisChen Hu
What a Stress! How Plant Photosynthesis Deals with High Light and Drought
Promoter: prof. dr. Roberta Croce
Defence: 26 April 2024
Section: Biophysics of Photosynthesis
More information on the thesisRiccardo Maggiore
Adventures in Gravitational Wave Detector Control: A Round-Trip Journey
Promoter: prof. dr. Andreas Freise
Copromotor: Dr. Conor Mow-Lowry
Defence: 11 April 2024
Section: (Astro-) Particle Physics
More information on the thesis -
2023
M.L. Diouf
Saturated Ultra-Precision Spectroscopy of Water and HD with NICE-OHMS
Promoter: prof.dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof.dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defence: 6 December 2023
More information on the thesis
J. Willemse
Imaging of fiber structures in the posterior eye
Promoter: prof.dr. J.F. de Boer
Defence: 29 November 2023
More information on the thesis
T. Pinheiro de Faria Pinto
Interactions Between Ultrashort Pulses and Laser-Produced Tin Plasmas
Promoter: prof.dr. K.S.E. Eikema, dr. S.M. Witte
Defence: 27 November 2023
More information on the thesis
Y. van der Werf
Probing Nuclear Sizes through Precision Spectroscopy of Ultracold Bosonic and Fermionic Helium
Promoter: prof.dr. K.S.E. Eikema, prof.dr. H.L. Bethlem
Defence: 24 November 2023
More information on the thesis
S. Maity
Electrical transport in organic semiconductors: Role of electrical self-heating, doping, and chemical structure
Promoter: dr. E.L. von Hauff
Defence: 20 November 2023
More information on the thesisD.J. Hemminga
Single-fluid radiation-hydrodynamic modeling of laser-driven EUV-emitting plasmas
Promoter: dr. O.O. Versolato
Defence: 20 November 2023
More information on the thesis
A.C.C. de Beurs
Lensless imaging with high- harmonic sources
Promoter: prof.dr. K.S.E. Eikema, dr. S.M. Witte
Defence: 16 November 2023
More information on the thesis
M.L.S. van der Geest
Extreme-ultraviolet and nonlinear spectroscopy of thin-film functional materials
Promoter: dr. S.M. Witte
Defence: 15 November 2023
More information on the thesis
L. van Haasterecht
Innovative optical techniques for fibrotic processes: towards clinical application
Promoter: prof.dr. M.L. Groot, prof.dr. P.P.M. van Zuijlen
Defence: 13 November 2023
More information on the thesis
Xu, L.
Grab, manipulate and watch single DNA molecule replication
Promoter: prof.dr.ir. G.J.L. Wuite
Defence: 9 November 2023
More information on the thesis
C. Niederauer
Development of Advanced Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques and Their Application for the Study of Protein-Protein Interactions in the Context of Immunological Signaling
Promoter: prof.dr. P.R. ten Wolde
Defence: 19 October 2023
More information on the thesis
L.R. Poirier
Ion Diagnostics for Extreme Ultraviolet Nanolithography
Promoter: prof. dr. ir. R.A. Hoekstra, Dr. O.O. Versolato
Defence: 6 October 2023
More information on the thesis
Z. Bouza
Developments for broadband spectral and spatial characterization of tin plasma light sources for EUV lithography
Promoter: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof.dr.ir. R.A. Hoekstra, dr. O.O. Versolato
Defence: 6 October 2023
More information on the thesis
L.P. Behnke
Efficient EUV light plasma sources driven by a 2-μm-wavelength laser
Promoter: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, dr. O.O. Versolato
Defence: 2 October 2023
More information on the thesis
Tulus
Interface Engineering in Emerging Thin Film Photovoltaics
Promoter: dr. E.L. von Hauff
Defence: 11 September 2023
More information on the thesisLaura van Huizen
Instant on-site histology
Promoter: prof.dr. J.T. Annema
Defence: 6 September 2023
More information on the thesis
Jordy Sebastiaan Butter
b→u: Exploring the magnitude and phase of b→u quark transitions through open-charmed beauty decays
Promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk
Defence: 13 June 2023
More information on the thesis
Mareike Sophie Berger
Controlling DNA replication initiation: from living to synthetic cells
Promoter: prof. dr. P.R. ten Wolde
Defence: 03 May 2023
More information on the thesis
Willem Mathijs Rozemuller
C. elegans behaviour and brain dynamics; a physical exploration
Promotor: prof. dr. T.S. Shimizu
Defence: 26 April 2023
More information on the thesisMargherita Vaselli
Advances in endoscopic optical coherence tomography: shining light on new diagnostic pathways
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F. de Boer
Defence: 19 April 2023
More information on the thesisTomas Evert van den Berg
Light-harvesting by Botryococcus braunii
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
Defence: 30 March 2023
More information on the thesisSylvianne Dorothea Christina Roscam Abbing
Control over Extreme-Ultraviolet High-Harmonic Generation from Gases and Solids
Promotor: dr. S.M. Witte
Defence:27 March 2023
More information on the thesis -
2022
Bo Liu
Morphology of liquid tin sheets formed by laser impact on droplets
Promotor: dr. O.O. Versolato
Defence: 13 December 2022
Cristina Sanchez Gras
Exceptionally empty charm
Promotor: prof. dr. H.G. Raven
Defence: 12 December 2022
Christos Messinis
Dark-field Digital Holographic Microscopy for Advanced Semiconductor Metrology
Promotor: prof. dr. A.J. den Boef
Defence: 29 November 2022
Robbert Cornell Walet
Advanced instrumentation for gravitational-wave research
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
Defence: 14 November 2022
Kin Fung Lai
Laser Precision Spectroscopy on Hydrogen Isotopologues: Tritiated molecules and vibrationally excited H2
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Defence: 28 June 2022
Alessandro Antoncecchi
Laser-ultrasonics and imaging through metal layers
Promotor: dr. S.M. Witte, prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defence: 30 March 2022
Ruben Floris Hamans
Plasmonic Fields at Work
Promotor: dr. A. Baldi
Defence: 14 March 2022
-
2021
Vincenzo Mascoli
Natural strategies for light harvesting in oxygenic photosynthesis: from excess light to shade
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
Defense: 20 January 2021Marica Marrese
Optically and electrically assisted-micro-indentation
Promotor: prof. dr. D. Iannuzzi
Defense: 25 January 2021Martijn Tros
Harvesting far-red light
Promotors: prof. dr. R. Croce and prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Defense: 3 February 2021Maria Bader
Seismic and Newtonian noise modeling for Advanced Virgo and Einstein Telescope
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
Co-promotor: dr. H.J. Bulten
Defense: 9 February 2021Joleen Traets
Developmental timing and cell fate maintenance in Caenorhabditis elegans
Promotor: prof. dr. T.S. Shimizu
Co-promotor: dr. J.S. van Zon
Defense: 10 February 2021Simona Streckaite
Thylakoids: from molecular to membrane organisation
Promotor: prof. dr. B. Robert
Co-promotors: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle and dr. A. Gall
Defense: 25 February 2021Szu-Ning Lin
The effect of physico-chemical conditions on a nucleoid-associated protein
Promotors: prof. dr. ir. G.J.L. Wuite and prof. dr. R.T. Dame
Defense: 1 March 2021Ruben Schupp
Spectral characterization of solid-state laser-driven plasma sources of EUV light
Promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof. dr. ir. R.A. Hoekstra and dr. O.O. Versolato
Defense: 17 March 2021Ruud van der Beek
Bloch Oscillations of Metastable Helium in an optical lattice
Promotor: prof. dr. H.L. Bethlem; co-promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs and prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defense: 17 March 2021Anna Meijering
Unravelling the chromosome - An optical tweezers approach to study the structure of human mitotic chromosomes
Promotors: prof. dr. ir. G.J.L. Wuite and prof. dr. ir. E.J.G. Peterman
Defense: 28 April 2021Harmen Wierenga
Statistical mechanics of cytoskeletal filaments
Promotor: prof. dr. P.R. ten Wolde;
Co-promotor: prof. dr. A.M. Dogterom
Defense: 17 May 2021Lauren Nicol
Photoprotection in Photosynthesis
Promotor: prof. dr. Roberta Croce
Defense: 25 May 2021Mengqi Du
Computational Depth-resolved Imaging and Metrology
Promotors: dr. S.M. Witte, prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defense: 9 June 2021
Joël Hussels
Improved determination of the dissociation energy of H2
Promotor: Prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Defence: 06 December 2021
Michele Veronesi
Quantum oscillations of neutral particles with the beauty quark
Promotor: Prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk
Defence: 15 November 2021
Liron Zada
New developments in Stimulated Raman Scattering and applications to plastic particle detection in the environment and human tissue
Promotor: Dr. F. Ariese, Prof. dr. A.D. Vethaak
Defence: 2 November 2021
Randy Anthonius Meijer
Tailored Laser-Droplet Interaction
Promotor: Dr. S.M. Witte, Prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defence: 04 October 2021
Cornelis Ligtenberg
A GridPix TPC readout for the ILD experiment at the future International Linear Collider
Promotor: Prof. dr. H.G. Raven, Prof.dr. S.C.M. Bentvelsen
Defence: 28 September 2021Rabah Abdul Khalek
Exploring the substructure of nucleons and nuclei with machine learning
Promotor: Prof. dr. J. Rojo
Defence: 27 September 2021
-
2020
Matthijs Jansen
Wavelength-resolved Extreme Ultraviolet Lensless Imaging and Metrology
Promotor: prof. d. K.S.E. Eikema
Co-promotor: dr. S.M. Witte
Defense: 10 January 2020Sadrine D'Haene
Regulation of Light Energy in Photosynthetic Bacteria
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Co-promotor: dr. J.P. Dekker
Defense: 13 January 2020Margherita Marchetti
DNA, proteins, membranes: exploring the physics behind biomolecular processes
Promotors: prof. dr. W.H. Roos and prof. dr. ir. G.J.L. Wuite
Defense: 16 January 2020Laura van der Schaaf
The Phase Cameras of Advanced Virg
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand;
Co-promotor: dr. G.M. van Beuzekom
Defense: 20 February 2020Xia Zhang
Theoretical study of rotationally inelastic scattering of molecules
Promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof. dr. ir. A. van der Avoird and prof. dr. S. Stolte
Defense: 5 March 2020Soumen Koley
Sensor networks to measure environmental noise at gravitational wave detector sites
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
Co-promotors: dr. H.J. Bulten and dr. X. Campman
Defense: 17 June 2020Elena Dall'Occo
Search for heavy neutrinos and characterisation of silicon sensors for the VELO upgrade
Promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk
Co-promotors: dr. W.D. Hulsbergen and dr. M.G. van Beuzekom
Defense: 17 June 2020Federica Brula
Tailoring extracellular matrix mechanics
Promotor: prof. dr. G.H. Koenderink
Defense: 19 June 2020Ekaterina Govorkova
Promotor: prof. dr. H.G. Raven
Co-promotor: dr. P. Koppenburg
Defense: 1 July 2020Mathi Damodaran
Sturctural and spectroscopic in vivo imaging of the human retina using scanning light ophthalmoscopy
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F. de Boer
Co-promotor: prof. dr. A. Amelink
Defense: 3 July 2020Sheng Zhou
Miniaturization and Application of Fiber Coupled Photoacoustic Gas Spectroscopy
Promotors: prof. dr. D. Iannuzzi and prof. dr. M.L. Groot
Defense: 6 July 2020Antonio Borges Santos da Costa
Physics of behavior across scales
Promotor: prof. dr. T.S. Shimizu
Co-promotor: dr. G.J. Stephens
Defense: 1 September 2020Laura Dreissen
Advancing Precision Ramsey-Comb Spectroscopy through High-Harmonic Generation
Promotor: prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defense: 7 October 2020Maximilian Gräfe
Quantitative retinal imaging with optical coherence tomography
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F. de Boer
Defense: 12 October 2020Joris scheers
Charge-state-resolved spectroscopy of multiply-charged tin ions
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof. dr. ir. R.A. Hoekstra and dr. O.O. Versolato
Defense: 10 November 2020Boris Boom
Acceleration sensing at the nano-g level; Development and characterisation of low-noise microseismometers for next generation gravitational wave detectors
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
Co-promotor: dr. A. Bertolini
Defense: 19 November 2020Ludwik Bielczynski
Light acclimation in plants
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
Defense: 30 November 2020Luca Bartolini
Development of methods and devices towards skin elastography
Promotor: prof. dr. D. Iannuzzi and prof. dr. S. Gibbs
Defense: 7 December 2020Jaap van Krugten
Sensing Cilia
Promotor: prof. dr. ir. E.J.G. Peterman
Defense: 10 December 2020 -
2019
Jacobo Solari
Spatial organization of the bacterial cell: in vivo imaging across scales
Promotor: prof. dr. T.S Shimizu
Defense: 29 January 2019Madhu Trivikram Talluri
Precision REMPI and CARS studies on molecular hydrogen and tritium
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Co-promotor: dr. E.J. Salumbides
Defense: 7 February 2019Yuval Mulla
The Cell: Strong, Soft Matter
Promotor: prof.dr. G.H. Koenderink
Defense: 8 February 2019Dmitry Kurilovich
Laser-induced dynamics of liquid tin microdroplets
Promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs and prof. dr.ir. R.A. Hoekstra
Co-promotor: dr. O.O. Versolato
Defense: 4 April 2019Sayan Patra
Towards Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy of trapped and cooled HD+ ions
Promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs and prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Co-promotor: dr. J.C.J. Koelemeij
Defense: 9 May 2019Dirk Boonzajer Flaes
Reconstructive imaging based on indirect measurements; From lensless imaging to waveguide analysis
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F. de Boer
Co-promotor: dr. S.M. Witte
Defense: 11 June 2019Fabio Feroldi
Endoscopic structural and molecular imaging; 'From Lab to clinic'
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F. de Boer
Defense: 4 October 2019Gaofeng Wu
The Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect in electromagnetic beams
Promotor: prof. dr. T.D. Visser
Defense: 14 October 2019Lucyna Wlodarczyk-Gruber
Photosynthesis in intact Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; studied by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Co-promotor: dr. J.P. Dekker
Defense: 7 November 2019Agata Szuba
Deconstruction of septin assembly
Promotor: prof. dr. G.H. Koenderink
Defense: 11 November 2019Yanqing Wang
Spontaneous Rayleigh-Brillouin Scattering in molecular Gases
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Co-promotor: prof. dr. ir. W. van der Water
Defense: 4 December 2019Fransesco Torretti
Spectroscopy of Highly-Charged Sn Ions for Extreme Ultraviolet Nanolithography
Promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs and prof. dr. ir. R.A. Hoekstra
Co-promotor: dr. O.O. Versolato
Defense: 19 December 2019 -
2018
Kari Viljami Vienola
Imaging the structure and the movement of the retina with scanning light opthalmoscopy
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F. de Boer
Defense: 24 January 2018Jeroen Meidam
Substantiating the void – Strong-field tests of general relativity with the first direct detection of gravitational waves & fast likelihood evaluations for future tests
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
Copromotor: prof. dr. C.F.F. Van Den Broeck
Defense: 7 February 2018Jona Mijalkovic
Ensemble and single-molecule dynamics of intraflagellar transport in C. elegans
Promotor: prof. dr. E.G.J. Peterman
Defense: 9 February 018Steven V. Beekmans
Minimally Invasive Micro-Indentation
Promotor: prof. dr. D. Iannuzzi
Defense: 6 March 2018Aernout P. P. van der Poel
Cold collisions in a molecular synchrotron
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Copromotor: dr. H.L. Bethlem
Defense: 13 March 2018Jacco de Vries
Asymmetrieën in gemengde schoonheidsvervallen
Promotor: prf. dr. M.H.M. Merk
Copromotor: dr. J.A.N. van Tilburg
Defense: 14 March 2018Joris Vincent van Heijningen
Turn up the bass! Low-frequency performance inprovement of seismic attenuation systems and vibration sensors for next generation gravitational wave detectors
Promotor: prof. dr. J. F. J. van den Brand
Copromotor: dr. A. Bertolini
Defense: 26 March 2018Kinga Sznee
Border and disorder: the supramolecular organization of photosynthetic membrane
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Grondelle,
Copromotors: dr. J.P. Dekker and dr. R.N. Frese
Defense: 9 April 2018Michele Monti
A Theoretical study of circadian clocks and circadian metablism 1
Promotors: prof. dr. P.R. ten Wolde and prof. dr. K.J. Hellingwerkf
Copromotor: dr. D. Lubensky
Defense: 12 April 2018Douwe Kamsma
Acoustic Force Sptectroscopy: From single molecules to single cells
Promotors: prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite and prof. dr. E. .G. Peterman
Defense: 17 May 2018Johannes Keegstra
Variation and fluctuations in a bacterial signaling network
Promotor: prof. dr. T.S. Shimizu
Defense: 17 May 2018Mariska van Rosmalen
Viruses under the loop; Their assembly process and capsid stiffness
Promotors: prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite and prof. dr. W.H. Roos
Defense: 22 May 2018Yusaku Hontani
Photoreaction dynamics of functional photoreceptor proteins
Promotor: prof. dr. J.T.M. Kennis
Defense: 4 July 2018Vandana Singh Kushwaha
Kinesin Motor Stepping Challenged; The Impact of Traffic Jams and Temperature
Promotor: prof. dr. ir. E.J.G. Peterman
Defense: 25 September 2018Bart Vos
Fibrin structure and mechanics; A journey across scales
Promotor: prof. dr. G.H. Koenderink
Defense: 5 October 2018Pavel Malý
Role of system-bath interaction timescale in photosynthetic excitation energy transfer
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Co-promotor: dr. T. Mancal
Defense: 11 October 2018Sabrina Cotogno
Polarized partons in hadrons at high energy: the structure of hadrons from single and double parton interactions
Promotor: prof. dr. P.J.G. Mulders;
Co-promotor: prof. dr. A. Bacchetta
Defense: 15 October 2018Robert Altmann
Ramsey-comb spectroscopy in the deep ultraviolet for tests of molecular quantum theory
Promotor: prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema,
Co-promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Defense: 13 November 2018Robert Jan Rengelink
A magic wave length optical dipole trap for high-precision spectroscopy of ultracold metastable helium
Promotor: dr. W. Vassen
Co-promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Defense: 10 December 2018 -
2017
Joris Paijmans
A Computatioal Study of the Robustness of CellularOscillators
Promotor: prof. dr. P.R. ten Wolde
Co-promotor: dr. D. Lubensky
Defense: 20 January 2017
Felix Oswald
Intercellular Transport; Studied with Dynamic single-molecule superresolution Microscopy
Promtor: prof. dr. E.J.G. Peterman and prof. dr. H. Lill
Co-promotor: dr. Y.J.M. Bollen
Defense: 17 February 2017
Joris Snellenburg
Modelling Energy Transfer and Trapping in the Thylakoid Membrane
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Co-promotor: dr. I.H.M. van Stokkum
Defense: 27 February 2017
Aravindan Varadarajan
Promotor: prof. dr. E.J.G. Peterman
Co-promotor: dr. Y.J.M. Bollen
Defense: 1 March 2017
Andreas D. Wassmann
Ozone Retrieval from Satellite Measurements; Exploiting the Ultraviolet and Thermal Infrared Spectral Ranges
Promotor: prof. dr. E.A.A. Aben
Co-promotor: dr. J. Landgraf
Defense:10 March 2017
Remy Notermans
High-Precision spectroscopy of Forbidden Transitions in Ultracold 4He and 3He
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Co-promotor: dr. W. Vassen
Defense: 15 March 2017
Nicoletta Liguori
Molecular Architecture of the Photoprotective Switches of Plants and Algae
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
Defense: 23 March 2017
Alberto Natali
Light-Harvesting Complexes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: from in vitro to in vivo
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
Defense: 12 April 2017
Adonis Flores
An ultracold, optically trapped mixture of 87Rb and metastable 4He atoms
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Defense: 31 May 2017
Camiel van Hoorn
Spectroscopy at the nanometer scale
Promotor: prof. dr. D. Iannuzzi
Defense: 7 June 2017
Itan Barmes
Coherent control and high-precision spectroscopy with an optical frequency comb
Promotor: prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
Defense: 8 June 2017
Leo Polak
Surface photovoltage mapping on water splitting NaTaO3 with Kelvin probe force microscopy; Towards nanoscale chemical and physical surface characterization
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Co-promotor: dr. R.J. Wijngaarden
Defense: 13 June 2017
Yundouyang Wang
Bessel correlations and Bessel beams
Promotor: prof. dr. T.D. Visser
Defense: 20 June 2017
Attaallah Almasi
Hunting for chameleons, a possible candidate for dark energy
Promotor: prof. dr. D. Iannuzzi
Defense: 17 July 2017
Vasileios Syropoulos
Controlling Penguins
Promotor: prof. dr. H.G. Raven
Defense: 3 October 2017
Vincent Friebe
Hacking photosynthesis
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Co-promotor: dr. R.N. Frese
Defense: 27 October 2017
Pengqi Xu
Light-Harvesting Complexes and Photoprotection in higher plants
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
Defense: 30 October 2017
Zhiqing Zhang
Third harmonic generation microscopy: towards automatic diagnosis of brain tumor tissue
Promotor: prof. dr. M.-L. Groot
Co-promotor: dr. J.C. de Munck
Defense: 3 November 2017
Mario Dapra
Search for drifting constants of nature via optical and radio astronomy
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
Co-promotor: dr. H.L. Bethlem
Defense: 20 November 2017
Azadeh Achbari
Rulers of the winds. How academics came to dominate the science of the weather, 1830-1870
Promotor: prof. dr. F. van Lunteren
Co-promoto: dr. C.A. Davids
Defense: 22 November 2017
Alonso Manuel Acuna Sanchez
Analysis of fluorescence spectra in cyanobacteria from picoseconds to minutes
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Co-promotor: dr. I.H.M. van Stokkum
Defense: 24 November 2017 -
2016
Karin Jansen
Extracellular Matrix Mechanics and Implications for Cellular Mechanosensing
Promotor: prof. dr. G.H. Koenderink
defense: 11 February 2016Dinand Schepers
Observing atmospheric methane from spacer
Promotor: prof. dr. E.E.A. Aben
defense: 12 February 2016Elizabeth Kish
Biophysical Characterization of Carotenoids and Carotenoid Containing Proteins Using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
Promotor: prof. dr. B. Robert
Co-promotor: dr. A. Gall
defense: 29 February 2016Albert James Licup
Nonlinear Mechanics of Fibrous Networks
Promotor: prof. dr. F.C. MacKintosh
defense: 22 March 2016Daan Vorselen
Vesicle Mechanics: A Push into the Nanoscale
Promotors: prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite, prof. dr. W.H. Roos
defense: 12 April 2016Giuseppe D'Ambrosi
Dynamics of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Binaries. Extraction of Gravitational Waves Beyond Last Stable Orbit and Introduction of Spin in the Particle Limit
Promotors: prof. dr. J.-W. van Holten and prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
defense: 21 April 2016Jeroen van Leerdam
Measuing of CP Violation in Mixing and Decay of Strange Beauty Mesons
Promotor: prof. dr. H.G. Raven
defense: 18 May 2016Jurriaan Biesheuvel
Probing QED and Fundamental Conatants through Vibrational Spectroscopy of HD+
Promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
defense: 28 June 2016Daniel Noom
Lensless microscopy using visible and extreme ultraviolet radiation
Promotor: prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
defense: 30 June 2016Pieter David
title Search for Exotic Long-Lived Particles with the LHCb Detector
Promotor: prof. dr. M. H. M. Merk
Co-promotor: dr. W. Hulsbergen
defense: 7 July 2016Ineke Brouwer
Probing biological interactions one molecule at a time: An optical tweezers analysis of protein-mediated membrane fusion and DNA repair
Promotor: prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite and prof. dr. E.J.G. Peterman
defense: 19 September 2016IClotilde le Quiniou
Influence of Size, Composition and Supramolecular Organization of Photosystem l on Trapping Efficiency
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
defense: 19 September 2016Marco Ferretti
Ultrafast energy processes in photosynthetic complexes
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
defense: 14 October 2016Onno Broekmans
From single-molecule to organism-level biophysics
Promotor: prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite
Co-promotor: dr. G.J. Stephens
defense: 14 October 2016Andrea Signori
Flavor and Evolution Effects in TMD Phenomenology
Promotor: prof. dr. P.J.G. Mulders
Co-promotor: dr. M. Radici
defense: 17 October 2016Panagiotis Tsopelas
A silicon pixel detector for LhCb
Promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk
Co-promotor: dr. E.N. Koffeman
defense: 21 November 2016Michael Gruber
From picoseconds to seconds: Fluorescence dynamics of single light-harvesting complexes
Promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
Co-promotor: dr. I.H.M. van Stokkum
defense: 12 December 2016Michailis Aghatos
The Swan Song of a Neutron Star Binary: Fundamental physics and astrophysics with gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence
Promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
defense: 20 December 2016 -
2015
Magdalena Preciado López
In vitro studies of actin-microtubule coordination
promotor: prof. dr. G. Koenderink
copromotor: dr. M. Dogterom
defense: 9 March 2015Boy Braaf
Angiography and Polarimetry of the Posterior Eye with Functional Optical Coherence Tomography
promotor: prof. dr. J.F. de Boer
defense: 19 March 2015Ziyu Gu
Spontaneous Rayleigh-Brillouin Scattering on Atmospheric Gases (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
defense: 23 March 2015Veerle Heijne
Search for long-lived exotic particles at LHCb
promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk
co-promotor: dr. W. Hulsbergen
defense: 26 March 2015Bram Prevo
Kinesin Illuminated
promotor: prof. dr. E.J.G. Peterman
defense: 27 March 2015Thanh Truc Nguyen
A twisted breakup story: Flow behavior of chiral nematic fluids
promotor: prof. dr. G. Koenderink
defense: 15 April 2015Julija Bagdonaite (Cum Laude)
Search for a variation of the proton-electron mass ratio from molecular hydrogen and methanol (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof. dr. L. Kaper
copromotor: prof. dr. M.T. Murphy
defense: 7 April 2015Roel J. M. Aaij
Triggering on CP Violation: Real-Time Selection and Reconstruction of Bs->Juo Decays
promotor: prof. dr. H.G. Raven
defense: 7 May 2015Conseng Meng
Femtosecond laser detection of xenon and Stark decelerated polyatomic molecules (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
copromotor: dr. H.L. Bethlem
defense: 30 June 2015Maarten Buffing
Color and TMD Universiality in Hadronic Interactions
promotor: prof. dr. P.J.G. Mulders
defense: 16 September 2015Tjeerd Pinkert
Optical frequency comb metrology from infrared to extreme ultraviolet wavelengths
promotor: prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
defense: 7 October 2015Kristof De Bruyn
Searchin for Penzuin Footprints: Towards High Precision CP Violation Measurements in the B Meson Systems
Promotor: prof. dr. R. Fleischer
copromotor: dr. P. Koppenburg
defense: 8 October 2015Mohammad M. Rafiee Fanood
Molecular chirality under the reaction microscope: mass-selective photoelectron circular dichroism of pure and multi-component enantiomeric mixture
promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
copromotor: dr. I. Powis
defense: 22 October 2015Janneke Ravensbergen
Photophysics of solar fuel materials
promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
copromotor: dr. J. T. M Kennis
defense: 2 November 2015Rose Koopman
Ageing of the LHCb Outer Traker & b-hadron production and decay at νs = 7 TeV
promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
copromotor: dr. N. Tuning
defense: 3 November 2015Mingli Niu
High Resolution Laser and Synchrotron Spectroscopic Studies on H2 and CO
promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
defense: 30 November 2015Gerrit Sitters
Probing the Blueprint of Life: the development and application of novel single-molecule methods
promotor: prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite
defense: 3 December 2015Mathieu Blom
Seismic attenuation for Advanced Virgo
promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
defense: 9 December 2015 -
2014
Dhjawal C. Chavan
Biophotonics and Medical Imaging, Biophotonics and Microscopy
promotor: prof. dr. D. Iannuzzi
defense: 13 January 2014Maryan Baclayon - Salumbides
Elasticity of Biomolecules. Probing, pushing and pulling using atomic force microscopy
promotor: prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite
defense: 20 January 2014Robert Knegjens
Strategies to hunt for new physics with strange beauty mesons (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. R. Fleischer
defense: 11 March 2014Mohammad Ali Haddad
Cavity Ring-Down Laser Spectroscopy of Carbon-Chain Molecules (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof. dr. H.V.J. Linnartz; copromotor: dr. D. Zhao
defense: 24 March 2014Jonas Morgenweg
Ramsey-comb spectroscopy (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema
defense: 18 June 2014Marina Quintero Perez
Preparation of an ultra-cold sample of ammonia molecules for precision measurements (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, copromotor: dr. H.L. Bethlem
defense: 8 September 2014Chiara Farinelli
Performance of the LHCb Vertex Locator and flavour tagging studies for the measurement of the CKM angle gamma (pdf)
Promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk, copromotor: dr. E. Jans
Defense: 9 September 2014Adrian J. de Nijs
Molecular radicals in the search for drifting constants (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, copromotor: dr. H.L. Bethlem
defense: 2 October 2014 -
2013
Wilco Johannes den Dunnen
Polarization effects in proton-proton collisions within the Standard model and beyond (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. D. Boer, prof. dr. P.J.G. Mulders
defense: 15 February 2013Shreyas Raghunathan
Studies in Physical optics; Coherence Theory and Surface Plasmons (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. T.D. Visser, prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
defense: 3 May 2013 (TU Delft)
Gareth Dickenson
Laser and Synchrotron Spectroscopic Studies of Molecular Hydrogen (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs; copromotor: dr. E.J. Salumbides
defense: 8 May 2013Alexandr Vladimirovich Kozlinskiy
Outer Tracker calibration and open charm production cross section measurement at LHCb (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk; copromotor: dr. Th. S. Bauer
defense: 22 May 2013Andrea Candelli
Physical Mechanisms of DNA repair: A single molecule perspective
promotor: prof. dr. E.J.G. Peterman and prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite
defense: 30 May 2013M.D. Lazova
Design and implementation of a bacterial signaling circuit
promotor: prof. dr. P.R. ten Wolde; copromotor dr. T.S. Shimizu
defense: 11 June 2013T.R. Sokolowski
A computational study of robust formation of spatial protein patterns
promotor: prof. dr. P.R. ten Wolde
defense: 14 June 2013Stefan Lehmann
Novel applications of femtosecond electron-ion coincidence imaging: from coherent control to mass-selective discrimination of chiral molecule (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Janssen
defense: 16 June 2013Mark Gerrit Beker
Low-frequency sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. J. F. J. van den Brand; copromotor dr. H. J. van Bulten
defense: 18 June 2013Paul Jansen (Cum Laude)
Polyatomic molecules for probing a possible variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs; copromotor: dr. H.L. Bethlem
defense: 1 July 2013Serena Oggero
Beauty in the crowd: Commissioning of the LHCb Pile-Up detector and first evidence of Bs0 -> mu+ mu- (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Merk
defense: 3 October 2013
Xiaoyan Pang
Guises of Gouy; the phase anomaly in optical wave fields (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. T.D. Visser
defense: 5 November 2013Tjonnie Guang Feng Li
Extracting physics from gravitational waves : testing the strong-field dynamics of general relativity and inferring the large-scale structure of the universe (pdf)
promotor: prof. dr. J.F.J. van den Brand
defense: 21 November 2013 -
2012
Emilie Wientjes (Cum Laude)
Revealing the light-harvesting properties of Photosystem I from single antenna to supercomplex
promotor: prof. dr. R. Croce
defense: 19 January 2012
Niels Laurens
A biophysical exploration of proteins and their substrates
promotor: prof. dr. ir. G.J.L. Wuite
defense: 29 March 2012
Alessandro Marin
Energy trasport pathways in photosynthetic antennas
promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
defense: 18 April 2012
Frank Helderman
On the pathological remodeling of large arteries
promotors: prof. dr. A. Vonk Noordegraaf, prof. dr. R. Krams
defense: 23 April 2012
Rob van Rooij
Frequency Metrology in Quantum Degenerate Helium
promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs; copromotor: dr. W. Vassen
defense: 8 June 2012 -
2011
Siet van den Wildenberg
Single-protein motion on microtubules and in cell membranes
Promotors: prof. dr. C.F. Schmidt and prof. dr. S.M. van der Vies, co-promotor: dr. ir.
E. J. G. Peterman
defense: 2 February 2011Elisabeth Romero Mesa
The electronic structure of photosystem II. Charge seperation dynamics
promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle, co-promotor dr. J.P. Dekker
defense: 25 March 2011Thomas van Dijk
Experimental and Theoretical studies in Optical Coherence Theory (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. T.D. Visser, Prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
defence: 4 April 2011Chase Brodersz
Mechanics and dynaics of biopolymer networks (Cum Laude)
promotor: prof. dr. F.C. MacKintosh
defense: 16 May 2011Peter Gross
The DNA double helix challenged by force.
promotors: prof. dr. G.J.L. Wuite, dr. ir. E.J.G. Peterman
defense: 19 May 2011Sven de Man
Divide et Impera (Cum Laude)
promotors: prof. dr. R.P. Griessen, dr. D. Iannuzzi
defense: 14 June 2011Tjaard Krueger
From Disorder to Order: The functional flexibility of single plant light-harvesting
complexes
promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
defense: 30 June 2011Anne Lisa Wolf
Frequency comb spectroscopy on trapped calcium ions (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema and prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, co-promoter: S van
den Berg
defense: 7 July 2011Andreas Stahl
Structurefunction relationship in photosynthetic and photo-active proteins: A mid-
Infrared investigation with femtosecond time resolution
promotors: prof. dr. M.L. Groot and prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
defense: 30 September 2011Marina Soares e Silva
Structure and dynamics of active actio-myosin networdk- An in vitro perspective
promotors: prof. dr. G.H. Koenderink, prof. dr. F.C. MacKintosh
defense: 21 October 2011Izabela Piechocka
Biopolymers: from Structural Hierarchy to Nonlinear Rheology
promotors: prof. dr. G.H. Koenderink and prof. dr. F.C. MacKintosh
defense: 23 November 2011Dominik Kandula
XUV Frequency Comb Metrology and the Ground State of Helium (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. K.S.E. Eikema, prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs
defense: 1 December 2011 -
2010
K. C. Toh
Light activation mechanisms of regulation of photosynthesis in bacteria
promotors: prof. dr. J.T.M. Kennis, prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
defense: 27 January 2010Olga Sytina
Enzymatic activity and excited state processes in protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase
promotors: prof. dr. M.L. Groot, prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
defense: 9 February 2010Maria Ofelia Vieitez Hornos
XUV laser studies of Rydberg-valence states in N2 and H+H− heavy Rydberg states (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof. dr. C.A. de Lange, prof. dr. L.E. Berg; copromotor: dr. O. Launila
defense: 2 June 2010Daniel Irimia
Femtosecond imaging and control of molecular photodynamics (pdf)
Promotor: prof. dr. M.H.M. Janssen
defense: 30 September 2010Thomas Cohen-Stuart
Stalking Electrons in Demanding Environments
promotor: prof. dr. R. van Grondelle
defense: 3 December 2010Toncho Ivanov
XUV spectroscopy of highly excited states in H2, HD and D2 (pdf)
promotors: prof. dr. W.M.G. Ubachs, prof. dr. C.A. de Lange
defense: 7 December 2010
This website uses cookies
Read full textYou can accept all cookies or set your preferences per cookie category. You can always alter your choice by removing the cookies from your browser. VU Amsterdam and others use cookies to: 1) analyse website use; 2) personalise the website; 3) connect to social media networks; 4) show relevant advertisements. More information about the cookies we use
This website uses cookies
You can accept all cookies or set your preferences per cookie category. You can always alter your choice by removing the cookies from your browser. VU Amsterdam and others use cookies to: 1) analyse website use; 2) personalise the website; 3) connect to social media networks; 4) show relevant advertisements. More information about the cookies we use
Cookie preferences
You can accept all cookies or you can set your preferences per cookie category. You can always alter your choice by removing the cookies from your browser. See more information in the cookie statement.
Personal settings: