Congratulations to Dr Biswajit Pradhan, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Fluorescence of Single Copper Proteins: Dynamic Disorder and Enhancement by a Gold Nanorod” on Tuesday 3 April 2018 at Leiden University’s Academy Building in the traditional manner. Dr. Biswajit Pradhan with his supervisor, Prof.dr. Michel Orrit. Continue reading
On 18 January 2018, Michel Orrit will give a lecture as part of the NGL lecture series (Natuurwetenschappelijk Gezelschap Leiden) Single molecules and single gold nanoparticles in the spotlight Michel Orrit will present several optical methods giving access to signals from single molecules and single gold nanoparticles. Single gold nanoparticles… Continue reading
On 16 June 2017, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO announced that Professor Michel Orrit is among the winners of this year’s Spinoza prize. The Spinoza Prize is the highest Dutch scientific award, and comes with a grant of 2.5 million euro to be spent on further scientific research.… Continue reading
Congratulations to Dr Aquiles Carattino, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Gold Nanorod Photoluminescence — Applications to Imaging and Temperature Sensing” on Thursday 9 March 2017 at Leiden University’s Academy Building in the traditional manner. Aquiles Carattino (ctr), flanked by his paranymphs Martín Caldarola (l) and Pravin Kumar (r) Continue reading
The European Physical Society (EPS) has awarded the prestigious Edison Volta Prize to Professor Michel Orrit. The prize, which is awarded annually by the EPS “to promote excellent research and achievement in physics”, was awarded to Orrit for “seminal contributions to optical science, to the field of single-molecule spectroscopy and… Continue reading
