WAVEFRONT SHAPING - Key Persons


Alfredo Rates


Andreas Schulz

Andreas Schulz is currently preparing his PhD thesis as part of a collaboration of the COPS chair with the MNF and the MTP chairs, guided by Profs. Willem Vos, Jurriaan Huskens, and Julius Vancso. He also performed advanced synchrotron tomography experiments at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in collaboration with Dr. Peter Cloetens.

André de Mots


Ben Kassenberg


Bert Mulder


Chris Toebes

Chris Toebes received his MSc degree for research guided by Prof. Pepijn Pinkse, and earlier a short research project guided by Manashee Adhikary MSc and Prof. Willem Vos. He is since 2021 continuing his PhD research under the daily guidance of Dr. Jan Klaers within the new AQO chair.

Cornelis Harteveld


Dr. Bas Goorden

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member at ASML
Dr. Bas Goorden is now a staff member at ASML in Veldhoven.

Dr. Devashish Sharma


Dr. Diana Grishina

Job Titles:
  • Room Boston Consulting in Amsterdam

Dr. Jan Klaers

Dr. Jan Klaers was a tenure track researcher at COPS since 2017 until 2020, where he obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2020. He is now leading a group within the AQO chair in the MESA+ Institute. His personal website is http://quantumthermodynamics.group.

Dr. Jelmer Renema

Job Titles:
  • Chairman With Prof. Pepijn Pinkse
Dr. Jelmer Renema was a postdoc in the COPS chair with Prof. Pepijn Pinkse, where he obtained an NWO Veni grant. He is now a tenure track researcher in the AQO chair guided by Prof. Pinkse. Dr. Renema is also CTO at Quix, a start-up company that was spun off from COPS in collaboration with the LPNO chair guided by Prof. Boller, and with Profs. Pinkse, Lagendijk, and Vos as co-founders.

Dr. Manashee Adhikary


Dr. Marek Kozon

Marek Kozon is currently preparing his PhD thesis as part of a long-running collaboration of the MACS (EWI department) and COPS chairs, guided by Profs. Jaap van der Vegt and Willem Vos, and Dr. Matthias Schlottbom.

Dr. Minh Duy Truong


Dr. Shun Takahashi


Dr. Sjoerd Hack


Gabrielle C. Claus

Job Titles:
  • This Chair Is Part of the Department of Science and Technology at the University of Twente
Gabrielle Claus worked on a short project with Jan Klaers (Lawrence Univ).

Geert Jan Kamphuis

Job Titles:
  • Lab Technician

Ing. Joris Vrehen

Job Titles:
  • R & D Manager in Optical Design at Signify
Joris Vrehen is a R&D Manager in Optical Design at Signify, the leading lighting company in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (formerly Philips Lighting). He is a guest scientist at COPS to perform exploratory experiments in COPS' labs.

João Martins

Job Titles:
  • New Group Member

Kevin Vonk

Job Titles:
  • Webmaster
Kevin Vonk was the webmaster of the COPS group. He successfully guided the transfer to a WordPress site (from the previous Drupal one).

Lars Corbijn van Willenswaard


Matthijs Velsink


Nicole Meinster-Engbers


Ozan Akdemir

Ozan Akdemir is currently preparing his PhD thesis in the COPS chair, as part of the NWO-TTW Perspectief program "Free-form Scattering Optics", in collaboration with the TUE and TUD, and with ASML, Signify, Lumileds, TNO, Demcon, and Schott.

P. van Essen


Prof. Ad Lagendijk

Prof. Ad Lagendijk obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1974 from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). At present Lagendijk is professor of physics at the University of Twente (UT). Earlier, he worked as a distinguished University Professor at the UvA and as group leader and division head at the FOM Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam. In the field of propagation of light in disordered media (experiment and theory) Lagendijk is a pioneer and world leader. This field has grown enormously and gained importance due to its highly multidisciplinary character. He has supervised 40+ Ph.D. theses. His full cv and much more can be found at his personal site: ad lagendijk.

Prof. Allard Mosk

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member With COPS

Prof. Willem Vos


Prof. William (Bill) Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Photonics at the School of Physics
Prof. William (Bill) Barnes is a full Professor of Photonics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of Exeter, UK. He is since many years a guest professor at COPS. He has received many accolades and obtained an ERC Advanced Grant, see his website: https://photmat.eu.

Shravan Raghunathan

Shravan Raghunathan worked as a junior researcher at COPS between 2019-2020 on a project studying anisotropic light scattering from nanowire structures. He is currently a PhD student at Leibniz-IPHT in Jena, Germany

Simon Dirlik


Tim Diepenbroek


Timon Vreman