J.M. Huijser PhD (Annemarie)

j.m.huijser@utwente.nl
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I am a Physical Chemist specialized in light-matter interactions.

Current and previous positions

Jan. 2021 - present: Associate Professor, Photocatalytic Synthesis group, University of Twente, the Netherlands

Dec. 2016 - Dec. 2020: Assistant Professor, Photocatalytic Synthesis group, University of Twente, the Netherlands

Nov. 2011-Nov. 2016: Assistant Professor, Optical Sciences group, University of Twente, the Netherlands

May 2008-Oct. 2011: Postdoctoral scientist, Chemical Physics department, Lund University, Sweden. Advisor: Prof. Villy Sundstrom

Education

2014: Dutch University Teaching Qualification (UTQ)

2008: Ph.D. degree. Thesis: 'Energy transfer dynamics in molecular layers of porphyrin derivatives'. Supervisors: Prof. Laurens Siebbeles and Dr. Tom Savenije, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands 

2004: M.Sc. degree (cum laude) in Chemical Engineering, specialization in Physical Chemistry, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Grants and Awards

2023: NWO ENW M2 Open Competition grant, with Dr. Andrea Baldi (VU Amsterdam) (k€700)

2022: NWO Wind and Solar Energy grant, with Dr. Rebecca Saive (University of Twente) (M€1.2)

2021: NWO ENW M1 Open Competition grant (k€310)

2020: NWO Open Technology Program grant, with Prof. André ten Elshof (University of Twente) (k€580)

2018: TOP grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), offering outstanding researchers the opportunity to strengthen or renew challenging and innovative lines of research, with Prof. Huub De Groot (Leiden) and Dr. Tomas Jansen (Groningen) (k€820)

2004: Award for best M.Sc. student Chemical Engineering (out of ca. 50 students), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

2004: Cum laude award (top 5 %) for M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Organisations

Research ambition

My research aims to understand and actively steer the photophysical and photocatalytic processes that drive solar energy conversion by tuning the static and dynamic nanostructures of materials, with the goal of establishing design principles for next-generation solar energy materials. I am particularly interested in correlated structural–electron dynamics, both within materials and at active surfaces and interfaces. My team employs complementary ultrafast spectroscopic methods to visualize individual processes in real time, including femtosecond transient absorption and time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. We perform these studies under in situ conditions—an approach that remains rare globally—and have observed that the environment plays a major role in the photodynamics that underpin the performance.

Recent PhD graduates

Team members            

Research profiles

BSc programs Advanced Technology and Chemical Science and Engineering

  • Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy (202000663)
  • Supervisor Materials Project (202200193)

MSc programs Nanotechnology, Chemical Science and Engineering and Applied Physics

  • Lecturer Microscopy and Spectroscopy (201600043)
  • Module Coordinator Characterization of Nanostructures (201600043)
  • Supervisor Inorganic Materials and Molecular S&T project (193700070)

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2024/2025

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

  • NWO M2 Selective CO2 photoreduction on plasmonic nanoparticles 
  • NWO M1 Can vibronic coupling aid efficient photochemical conversion?
  • ARC CBBC Catalytically active coatings for the removal of indoor pollutants
  • NWO TOP The molecular twist of long-range exciton transfer in chiral self-assembled supramolecular matrices.
  • NWO OTP Towards stable patterned metal-halide perovskites with controlled optical and photophysical properties
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