Group Leader

	Jaime Gomez Rivas
	I studied Astrophysics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and the Université de Liège (Belgium). From 1995 until 1997, I worked at the Space Research Organization Netherland . I received my PhD degree in Physics from the University of Amsterdam in 2002. From 2002 until 2005, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Aachen (Germany). I lead the group Surface Photonics at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) and at Philips Research since 2005. In 2010 I was appointed as part-time professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. My scientific interests are nanophotonics, plasmonics, semiconductor nanowires and THz photonics.
	phone: +31 40 2742349 fax: +31 40 2746505
	e-mail: rivas at amolf.nl

Postdoc(s)

	Audrey Berrier
	phone: +31 40 2742097 fax: +31 40 2746505
	e-mail: a.berrier at amolf.nl

	Karsten Goede
	I am a proud native of Berlin (Germany), where I also studied physics at the Technische Universitaet Berlin (2001 diploma grade very good, thesis on mid-infrared absorption and emission properties of quantum dots). For my Ph.D., I moved to Universitaet Leipzig (Germany) and focussed on peptide behaviour at semiconductor surfaces (grade magna cum laude in 2008, and my thesis is available as a book). As a postdoc, I started in Leipzig to look at optical properties of such molecule-semiconductor interfaces. Then, in 2011 I moved to the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials of Universitaet Erlangen (Germany) and worked in the framework of an intense co-operation at CINaM Nanoscience Centre of Université de la Méditerranée (Marseille, France) on adhesion of artifical cells to bio surfaces. In 2012, I joined AMOLF to work on biosensing by surface plasmonics.
	phone: +31 40 2745818 fax: +31 40 2746505
	e-mail: k.goede at amolf.nl

	Gabriel Lozano
	I received the Physics Degree with honors from the Science Department of the Universidad de Cordoba (Spain) in 2006. Then I studied in the University of Sevilla (Spain) under the Material Science and Technology program, which I completed in 2007 and I worked four years in the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla under the supervision of Prof. Hernan Miguez, obtaining my PhD degree in 2010. From 2011 I am working as a Postdoc in the Surface Photonics group at AMOLF. My research interests are mainly focused on nanophotonics and plasmonics aiming to modify the emission properties of different luminescent materials.
	phone: +31 40 2744612 fax: +31 40 2746505
	e-mail: lozano at amolf.nl

	Hemant Tyagi
	phone: +31 20 7547100 fax: +31 20 7547290
	e-mail: h.tyagi at amolf.nl

PhD Student(s)

	George_Georgiou
	phone: +31 20 7547100 fax: +31 20 7547290
	e-mail: g.georgiou at amolf.nl

	Grzegorz Grzela
	phone: + 31 40 2749369 fax: + 31 40 2746505
	e-mail: grzela at amolf.nl

	Giuseppe Pirruccio
	I graduated in Physics at University of Padua (Italy). I started my PhD in November 2011 and my research focuses on guided modes in thin films, with particular emphasis on strongly absorbing materials.
	phone: + 31 40 27 46676 fax: + 31 40 2746505
	e-mail: g.pirruccio at amolf.nl

	Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez
	I graduated Magna Cum Laude in Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (USA). I then studied photonics at KTH (Sweden) and Ghent University (Belgium) under the Erasmus Mundus Master in Photonics program, which I completed with Greatest Distinction. My current research interests are on nanophotonics, specially on the interaction of optical nanoantennas with light-emitters.
	phone + 31 40 2747901 fax: +31 40 2746505
	e-mail: s.rodriguez at amolf.nl

	Martijn Schaafsma
	My research has its focus on plasmonics in periodic structures, both in the terahertz and visible spectrum. I have a MSc degree in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology. In my spare time I play the violin.
	phone: + 31 40 2749369 fax: + 31 40 2746505
	e-mail: mschaafsma at amolf.nl

Visiting Scientist (s)

	Shunsuke Murai
	I am a visiting researcher from Kyoto University, Japan, supported by "Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Vitalizing Brain Circulation", from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
	e-mail: murai at amolf.nl

	Vita Prosentsov
	e-mail: prosentsov at yahoo.com

Internship Student (s)

	Tommy Barten
	phone: +31 20 7547100 fax: +31 20 7547290
	e-mail: t.barten at student.tue.nl

	Frank Verniers
	phone: +31 20 7547100 fax: +31 20 7547290
	e-mail: f.verniers at student.fontys.nl

Former Group Members

Rik Starmans

Yannik Fontana now at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Yichen Zhang now at ASML

Silke L. Diedenhofen now at ICFO

Christophe Arnold now at Laboratory for Photonics and Nanostructures CNRS

Gabriele Vecchi

Christelle Tuambilangana

Ruud Cools

Vincenzo Giannini now at Imperial College of London

Ruud Cools now at Erasmus Medical Center

Bram van Megen

now at Eindhoven University of Technology TU/e

Samira Shams Sobhani

Manuel Forcales now at ASML

Otto Muskens now at AMOLF

Maarten van Weert now at ASML

Jakob Treffers

Tijmen Rümke

Mark Kooijman

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