Melissa Goodwin completed her Ph.D. in chemistry at Durham University in 2017 with a thesis entitled "Interactions of lactam containing compounds based on kinetic hydrate inhibition polymers." She then moved to the University of Twente to work in the groups of BNT and MNF on Mach-Zehnder interferometry for detection of virus-like particles. She then moved to the group of Complex Photonic Systems (COPS) working on the fabrication of nanophotonic structures in silicon. Melissa now works part time as a researcher in COPS, making photonically interesting materials as well as supervising students and part time for the MESA+ Nanolab as operator of the Focused Ion Beam (FIB). 

Expertise

  • Material Science

    • Nanopore
    • Silicon
    • Photonic Band Gap
    • Reactive Ion Etching
    • Photonic Crystal
    • Anisotropy
  • Engineering

    • Scattering
  • Physics

    • Media

Organisations

Publications

2026

Studying diffraction effects in the 2D position-resolved reflection phase of nanophotonic structures (2026)[Contribution to conference › Poster] NWO Physics 2026. Alferink, N., Goodwin, M. J., Barolle, V., Balondrade, P., Aubry, A., Lagendijk, A. & Vos, W. L.

2025

Fabrication of 3D photonic band gap crystals by etching in silicon (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] NWO CHAINS 2025. Goodwin, M. J., Vos, W. L. & Vreman, T. J.Optical detection of single sub-15 nm objects using elastic scattering strong coupling (2025)Nature communications, 16(1). Article 8101. Aghdaee, M. R., Goodwin, M. J. & Ojambati, O. S.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63380-8Fabrication of 3D photonic band gap crystals by etching in silicon (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 14th International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, PECS XIV. Goodwin, M. J., Vos, W. L., Vreman, T. J., Schulz, A. S., Grishina, D. & Harteveld, C. A. M.Imaging the phase of nanophotonic structures in reflection (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 14th International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures, PECS 2025. Alferink, N., Goodwin, M. J., Barolle, V., Balondrade, P., Aubry, A., Lagendijk, A. & Vos, W. L.Momentum-resolved reflectivity of a 2D photonic crystal in the near-infrared (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Vreman, T. J., Goodwin, M. J., Lagendijk, A. & Vos, W. L.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.25418Dispersion of backward-propagating waves in a surface defect on a three-dimensional photonic band-gap crystal (2025)Physical review B: Covering condensed matter and materials physics, 112(15), 1553051-15530514. Article 155305. Vreman, T. J., Goodwin, M. J., Corbijn van Willenswaard, L. J., Barnes, W. L., Lagendijk, A. & Vos, W. L.https://doi.org/10.1103/jckd-3l5dFocused Ion Beam at the MESA+ Nanolab (2025)[Contribution to conference › Other] MESA+ Day 2025. Goodwin, M. J.Imaging the phase of nanophotonic structures in reflection (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] MESA+ Day 2025. Alferink, N., Goodwin, M. J., Mulder, B., Hubert, M., Vreman, T. J., Muschaweck, J. A., Barolle, V., Balondrade, P., Aubry, A., Lagendijk, A. & Vos, W. L.Fabrication of 3D Photonic Band Gap Crystals for Controlling the Emission of Light (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 13th European Optical Society Annual Meeting, EOSAM 2025. Goodwin, M. J., Vos, W. L., Vreman, T. J., Harteveld, C. A. M., Kamphuis, G. J., Schulz, A. S. & Lagendijk, A.

Research profiles

I currently teach part of the Nanotechnology modules on Nanophotonics and Nanolithography as well as supervise students for the literature project of the AT course. I also work with the Saxion in Enschede for International Project Student Week and Nanoday. I have also supervised masters students from Chemistry, Applied Physics and Nanotechnology.

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

Address

University of Twente

Nanolab (building no. 16), room 1001
Hallenweg 23
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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University of Twente

Horst Complex (building no. 20), room ME120
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands

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