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Thesis defenses in Department Physics and Astronomy
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2025
Liam Gerard O'Shaughnessy
On the 3D Social Behavior of Zebrafish
Promotor: dr. Greg Stephens
Copromotor: prof. dr. Erwin Peterman
Defence: 20 January 2025
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Yahia Mostafa
Mass & Energy Efficient Tin Laser Produced Plasma Light Sources
Promotor: prof. dr. Oscar Versolato
Copromotor: dr. John Sheil
Defence: 10 January 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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J. Willemse
Imaging of fiber structures in the posterior eye
Promoter: prof.dr. J.F. de Boer
Defence: 29 November 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Xu, L.
Grab, manipulate and watch single DNA molecule replication
Promoter: prof.dr.ir. G.J.L. Wuite
Defence: 9 November 2023
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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
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L.R. Poirier
Ion Diagnostics for Extreme Ultraviolet Nanolithography
Promoter: prof. dr. ir. R.A. Hoekstra, Dr. O.O. Versolato
Defence: 6 October 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mareike Sophie Berger
Controlling DNA replication initiation: from living to synthetic cells
Promoter: prof. dr. P.R. ten Wolde
Defence: 03 May 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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