ERC Advanced Grant for Albert Polman
AMOLF director and group leader Dr Albert Polman has received a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant of 2.3 million euro. Polman will use this grant to start a research program on 'optical metamaterials', materials that consist of a complex network of metallic and dielectric nanostructures, in which light propagates in unusual ways. These materials have a negative index of refraction, leading to backward wave propagation. This enables, among others, the realization of lenses that can make extremely sharp images. Polman will also use the new metamaterials to create ultra-thin solar cells and to study the interaction between light and mechanical vibrations. More information about the work of Albert Polman: http://www.amolf.nl/research/photonic-materials/
In November FOM announced that five other physicists also received an ERC Advanced Grant. They can start working on a new research topic thanks to the EU's prestigious ERC Advanced Grant: Joost Frenken (Leiden University, FOM programme leader), Rienk van Grondelle (VU University Amsterdam, FOM workgroup leader and member of the Board of Governors), Detlef Lohse (University of Twente, FOM programme leader and member of the Executive Board), Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam, FOM programme leader) and Henny Zandbergen (Delft University of Technology, FOM workgroup leader). They each receive a grant for 60 months of research.
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ERC Advanced Grant
The ERC Advanced Grant is a prestigious European research grant for individual researchers. It is part of the European Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), a grant programme for the years 2007-2013. The ERC Advanced Grant is awarded to outstanding individual researchers for groundbreaking research. Besides the research ideas, the researchers' track records and the research environment are also assessed.
Further information: http://erc.europa.eu/