Current Group Members

Post Docs

• Giovanni Del Monte

PhD students

• Rinske Alkemade
• Alptug Ulugöl
• Marjolein de Jager

Bachelors students

• Marijke Veneklaas
• Alessandro Salo

Former PhDs

• Emanuele Boattini
  Thesis: Artificial intelligence meets soft matter: Machine learning applications for the study of colloidal self-assembly
• Berend van der Meer
  Thesis: Defects and Diffusion in Colloidal Crystals
• Vassilis Prymidis
  Thesis: Active matter in silico: Phase behaviour of attractive, repulsive, and anistropic self-propelled particles

Former Postdocs

• Berend van der Meer

Former Bachelors and Masters Students

• Felix Verbiest, Bachelors Student
  Project: Elastic constants of hard polyhedra: Predicting the elastic constants of hard hexagonal prisms
• Arjen van Mullem, Bachelors Student
  Project: Learning the interaction force profile from colloidal trajectories using graph neural networks
• Haadi Naqvi, Bachelors Student
  Project: Shape induced auxeticity: measuring the elastic constants of crystals of hard squares
  Co-supervisor: Frank Smallenburg, CNRS, Orsay, France
• Rebecca Smaal, Bachelors Student
  Project: Direct coexistence simulations in NVT ensembles for Weeks Chandler Andersen particles
• Dinja Sanders, Masters Student
  Project: Measuring anisotropic interaction potentials by trajectory analysis on simulated and experimental colloidal systems
  Co-supervisor: Alfons van Blaaderen, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Vera Belde, Bachelors Student
  Project: The elastic properties of simple cubic crystals of hard cubes
• Nena Slaats, Bachelors Student
  Project: The onset of crystal nucleation for hard triangular prisms
• Lotte Meilof, Bachelors Student
  Project: Sedimented Monolayers of Binary Hard Spheres: A Search for Quasicrystals
  Co-supervisor: Roel Dullens, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Noor ten Veen, Masters Student
  Project: Self-assembly of colloidal nanorods inside polygonal prisms
  Co-supervisor: Frank Smallenburg, CNRS, Orsay, France
• Eline Kempkes, Masters Student
  Project: Beyond Crystals: Computing the Free Energies of Quasicrystals
  Co-supervisor: Frank Smallenburg, CNRS, Orsay, France
• Robert Hardeman, Masters Student,
  Project: Open boundary simulations of a square, triangle, and rhombus dodecagonal quasicrystal
  Co-supervisor: Frank Smallenburg, CNRS, Orsay, France
• Rinske Alkemade, Masters Student,
  Project: Exploring the link between glassy dynamics and structure using machine learning,
  Co-supervisor: Frank Smallenburg, CNRS, Orsay, France
• Geert Schulpen, Masters Student,
  Project: Nematic liquid crystal for a 2-dimensional colloidal soft crystal
  Co-supervisor: Lisa Tran (UU)
• René Moesbergen, Masters Student
  Project: Diffusion and diffusion-like effects of energy in lanthanide-doped nanocrystals
  Co-supervisor: Freddy Rabouw (UU)
• Rein Perton, Masters Student
  Project: Defects in Crystals of Hard Polyhedra
• Coen Hoogeveen, Bachelors Student,
  Project: Exploring Four-point Correlation Functions in Glass Formers,
  Co-supervisor: Frank Smallenburg, CNRS, Orsay, France
  
• Bas Doorenbos, Masters Student
  Project: On the structure and optical properties of quasicrystals,
  Co-supervisor: Matthias Schlottbom, Twente University
• Duncan de Vos, Masters Student
  Project: Using Neural Networks to Predict Bond Breaking and Forming Events in Patchy Systems,
  Co-supervisor: Frank Smallenburg, CNRS, Orsay, France
• Eline Kempkes, Bachelors student
  Project: Machine Learning the Boltzmann Distribution: Exploring how different training strategies affect the performance of Boltzmann Generators,
• Hanne Leeuwis, Bachelors student
  Project: Active passive mixtures on the surface of a sphere
• Paul Moses, Bachelors student
  Project: Extracting interactions between colloids via particle trajectories,
  Co-supervisor: Frank Smallenburg, CNRS, Orsay, France
• Noor ten Veen, Bachelors student
  Project: Diffusion of point defects in crystals of point Yukawa particles
• Marjolein de Jager, Masters student
  Project: Defects in Crystals of Soft Particles
• Frank Otto, Bachelors student
  Project: Phonon contribution to the entropy in colloidal hard-sphere crystals
• Joris de Jong, Bachelors student,
  Project: Vacancies in colloidal crystals of Hertzian spheres
• Ruud Nimour, Masters student
  Project: Nucleation of colloidal cubes using Monte Carlo simulations
• Nina Bezem, Masters student
  Project: The development of a model for deformable spheres and its application to studies of phase behaviour
• Meike Bos, Masters student
  Project: Spherical Dipolar Colloids in Experiments and Simulations
• Rinske Alkemade, Bachelor’s student
  Project: Point defects in crystals of point Yukawa particles
• Jillis Schokking, Bachelor’s student
  Project: Crystal phases of polymer coated colloids in 2d: A
  zoo of crystals
• Sandra Hollander, Bachelor’s student
  Project: Vacancy Behaviour for Hard Polyhedra Crystals
• Michel Ram, Master’s student,
  Project: Developing neural network based order parameters for distinguishing binary crystal structures
• Steyn van Leeuwen, Bachelor’s student
  Project: Phase diagram of a binary system of hard spheres and hard spheres with a square well
• Mayke Ploeger, Masters student
  Project: Elasticity and Vacancy Behaviour of Crystals of Hard Cubes
• Robin van Damme, Master’s student
  Project: Phase and vacancy behaviour of hard slanted cubes: A quantitative analysis on the influence of shape
• Marinda Tervoert, Bachelors Student
  Project: Phonons in a face-centered-cubic crystal of hard spheres
• Jasper Munnichs, Bachelors Student
  Project: Cell theory simulations on hard sphere crystals
• Paul Renes, Bachelors Student
  Project: Direct measurement of the free energy from hard-sphere configurations using the
  free-volume method
• Jolien Marsman, Masters Student
  Project: Modelling the Self-Assembly of Organic Molecules on a Weakly Interacting Surface
• Fons van der Laan, Bachelors Student
  Project: A mixture of active and passive attractive disks
• Jette van den Broeke, Bachelors Student
  Project: Colloidal Systems of Hard “Tilted” Cubes
• Mark Verkoulen, Bachelors Student
  Project: Direct Coexistence Simulations of an Interstitial Solid Solution
• Harmen Sielcken, Bachelors Student
  Project: Structures in Active Lennard-Jones Systems
• Emma Lathouwers, Bachelors Student
  Project: Diffusion in hard sphere interstitial solid solutions
• Serwan Asaad,  Bachelors Student
  Project: Self-Assembly of Octahedral Patchy Particles
• Sebastian Oude Voshaar, Masters Student
  Project: Nucleation of nanoparticles in a coarse-grained fluid using OpenCL

Former Internship Students

• Aimee Kok, Wageningen University
  Project: An analysis of perpendicular space during the self-assembly of colloidal dodecagonal quasicrystals