AMOLF PhD student Joep Pijpers awarded a YES! Fellowship
Former AMOLF PhD student Joep Pijpers has been awarded a Young Energy Scientists (YES!) Fellowship from FOM. The Fellowship will enable Pijpers to start a three-year research project in the group of Daniel Nocera at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The achievement of large-scale renewable sources of energy is one of the major issues of the 21st century. While much can be achieved by the improvement and further refinement of existing technologies, radical new ideas in the field of energy are urgently needed. The YES! programme has been established to stimulate researchers who have just finished their PhD, to propose novel ideas on the conservation, generation and storage of energy. If granted, the FOM fellowship enables the researchers to carry out their program at a foreign institution with the final goal to return to The Netherlands and start an academic career in fundamental energy research at a Dutch institute or university.
Joep Pijpers recently received his PhD at AMOLF in the group of Mischa Bonn, with a thesis entitled “Carrier dynamics in photovoltaic nanostructures”. Pijpers has started his project at MIT in August this year. Aside from Pijpers, also Dr. Andrea Baldi, who recently graduated at the Free University Amsterdam in the group of Prof. R.P. Griessen, was awarded a YES! Fellowship. Baldi will start his research project at Stanford University in the group of Prof. Jen Dionne in January 2011. Both Pijpers and Baldi will be supervised from AMOLF and regularly report about the results of their work.
Joep Pijpers, YES!-awardee. Pijpers wil start a research project on renewable energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).