AMOLF PhD student Joep Pijpers has been awarded a Rubicon grant.

By: AMOLF

AMOLF PhD student Joep Pijpers has been awarded a Rubicon grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on April 7, 2010.

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.

Pijpers will go to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston to investigate the production of hydrogen by photocatalytic water splitting. In this approach, solar energy is used directly to produce fuels (hydrogen) instead of the generation of electrical current (as is done in conventional solar cells).

Listen to the interview at the national broadcaster NOS with Joep Pijpers (in Dutch).