Faculty of Science
Our group (
Tomáš Šolomek Group) is situated in the vibrant city of Amsterdam, renowned for its diversity and international flair. You'll have ample opportunities to engage in social activities outside of work. Our campus, nestled in the Science Park, boasts a multitude of cafes, eateries, bars, sports clubs, green spaces, and more, providing a refreshing break in between the scientific challenges you'll tackle with us. The University of Amsterdam also offers an array of inspiring soft skill courses to help you enhance your capabilities and skillset.
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Your workplace, the
Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) is one of eight institutes of the
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Faculty of Science. HIMS performs internationally recognized chemistry and molecular research, curiosity driven as well as application driven. This is done in close cooperation with the chemical, flavor & food, medical and high-tech industries. Research is organized into four themes:
Analytical Chemistry,
Computational Chemistry,
Synthesis & Catalysis and
Molecular Photonics. The Molecular Photonics team will represent your closest environment to achieve your PhD thesis.
The mission of Molecular Photonics at HIMS is putting light to chemical use. It is done in two ways: on the one hand, the group develops new materials that convert light to achieve specific goals, such as nanoscale motion, electricity, targeted medicine, and sustainable agriculture. On the other hand, light is used to investigate molecular structure and reactivity, for instance to study chirality, the molecular origin of friction, or chemistry under prebiotic conditions. Each of these research lines benefits the other: spectroscopic characterization helps to develop new materials, and the photochemistry of the latter inspires the development of new spectroscopic methods with high time-, spatial- and spectral resolutions. The combination of both research lines in the same research group provides a synergy that is unique in the Dutch chemical research landscape.
Molecular Photonics thus offers expertise that enables meeting current and future societal challenges by pushing boundaries of molecular photonics research.