Meet the Team
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Grad Students
Alumni
2022
- Maxime Holdener, ETH Zürich (Master’s thesis, Chemistry), Title: “Calculations of the Radiative Lifetimes of the Electronically Excited States of the Hydrogen Molecular Ion”.
2023
- Mart Broerse, UvA+VU (Bachelor thesis, Physics), Title: “TOF, VMI and MATI spectra based on ion trajectory calculations”.
2024
- Vincent Wirth, ETH Zürich (Master’s thesis, Chemistry), Title: “Nonadiabatic Effects in Bound and Continuum States of Molecular Hydrogen: Theoretical and Numerical Methods”.
- Olivier Swaak, UvA+VU (Bachelor thesis, Physics), Title: “Implementation and Characterisation of a Laboratory Environment Monitoring System”.
- Pierre Holthuis, UvA+VU (Bachelor thesis, Physics), Title: “Simulating the Laser slowing of He$_2$ molecules”.
- Lindel Pieters, UvA+VU (Bachelor thesis, Physics), Title: “Control and timing of quantum experiments using ARTIQ”.
- Tomas Valentinas, VU+UT (Bachelor thesis, Mechanical Engineering), Title: “Implementation of a Laser Frequency Lock Scheme using the Red Pitaya”.
2025
- Tijmen Hilgenkamp, VU (Bachelor thesis, Computer Science), Title: “h2pcontrol: a gRPC based control system for non-real-time communication within a physics experiment”.
- Tijn Schuitevoerder, UvA+VU (Bachelor thesis, Physics), Title: “Electron bombarder for producing intense beams of metastable atoms and molecules”.
- Lucia Verdegay, Laser cooling of He$_2$.
2026
- Jelle Tuenter, VU+UT (Bachelor thesis, Mechanical Engineering), Title: “Design and Prototyping of a Motorized Self-Adjusting Precision Rotation Mount for Dual-Crystal Laser Beam Compensation”.
- Mats de Vries, VU+UT (Bachelor thesis, Mechanical Engineering), Title: “Design of a motorized precision mechanism for the alignment of non-linear crystals”.
- Rick van Leeuwen, UvA+VU (Bachelor thesis, Physics), Title: “Measuring frequency chirps for laser cooling molecules using interferometry”.
- Ignacio Icaza Navarro, VU (Bachelor thesis, Computer Science), Title: “h2pdaq: A Data Acquisition Pipeline for Non-Real-Time Experimental Data Collection”.