Education
Polman received his master"s degree in physics (1985) and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in materials science and engineering (1989) from the University of Utrecht.
Polman received his master"s degree in physics (1985) and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in materials science and engineering (1989) from the University of Utrecht.
From 1989 to 1991 he was a post-doctoral staff researcher at American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey). Since 1991 he has been associated with AMOLF, first as a group leader, since 1999 also as a department head In 2005 he initiated the Center for Nanophotonics at AMOLF.
In 2006 he was appointed as director of AMOLF. Polman was one of the initiators of the Amsterdam nanoCenter, a regional facility for nanofabrication founded in 2003.
Polman is one of the pioniers of the research field of nanophotonics: the control, understanding, and application of light at the nanoscale. He is best known for inventing optical doping, id est (that is), the incorporation and optical activation of optically active ions in thin-film materials by ion implantation.
Polman"s research group at AMOLF specializes in fundamental studies at the interface between optical physics and materials science. Polman, Nano 7, 2004 (2007), also featured in Nature 447, July 2007.
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In 2009, Albert Polman was appointed as a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.