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I am working as a senior researcher within the Solid State Quantum Information
Processing (SSQIP) group, headed by Prof. Leo Kouwenhoven at the Technical University of Delft.
This position is funded by the dutch organization "FOM" (A government foundation supporting
fundamental physics research). This appointment is equivalent to an assistant
proffesor position in the US, allthough I am not obliged to teach. The experimental
work is carried out in the Quantum Optics group of Prof. Han Woerdman at the University of Leiden.
The focus of my research is on the creation of photon entanglement in solid-state systems
for future applications in quantum information and quantum computation. Before starting in Leiden in November 2004 I worked as a postdoc in the quantum optics group of Prof. D. Bouwmeester at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). In Santa Barbara I worked on the idea to use photonic crystals to generate entangled photon pairs, emission of single photons from stacked quantum dots and the creation of a macroscopic superposition following the ideas of R. Penrose. I obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Utrecht (online PhD thesis) based on research done on spontaneous emission and photonic crystals. The research was done in the optoelectronic materials group of Prof. A. Polman at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I received my physics eduaction (masters degree) from the University of Amsterdam. During the third and fourth year of my studies I did two master projects; one on erbium doping of crystalline silicon at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam and a second one at the Shell Research and Technology Centre Amsterdam where I investigated the two-phase flow of an oil-water mixture. I made a short summary of both projects that you can read online. |
