AMOLF PhD student Klaas-Jan Tielrooij has been awarded a Rubicon grant.

AMOLF PhD student Klaas-Jan Tielrooij has been awarded a Rubicon grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on April 5, 2011.

The aim of the Rubicon programme is to encourage talented researchers to dedicate themselves to a career in postdoctoral research. Rubicon offers researchers who have completed their doctorates the chance to gain experience at a top research institution outside the Netherlands.

Tielrooij will go to ICFO, the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain to investigate new antennas which can detect hidden information. Catching light particles (photons) originating from light sources that emit photons one by one is currently not efficient, difficult to control and information is frequently lost: specific (quantum mechanical) photon states are not preserved during the detection process. With new techniques for antennas we will detect this hidden information.

Klaas-Jan Tielrooij