AMOLF group leaders elected to the Young Academy (DJA)

Mirjam Leunissen and Femius Koenderink, heads of respectively the Supramolecular Interactions and Resonant Nanophotonics group, are among this year’s 10 excellent scientists, elected to become new members of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

In order to qualify for membership of the Young Academy, young researchers must already have made their mark in science. They also must have a broad interest in science and scholarship, in the role that science plays in society, and in science policy. The new members will be installed on March 16, 2012 at the Trippenhuis building of the KNAW.

Mirjam Leunissen studies interactions and structures in soft matter and biologically inspired systems that are the result of multiple weak non-covalent bonds. Femius Koenderink’s research topic  is to develop a new branch of nanophotonics rooted in plasmonics and metamaterials that uses subwavelength “point”-scatterers with  tailored electric and magnetic resonances to control light-matter interactions.

Femius Koenderink and Mirjam Leunissen