Jacob Hoogenboom (1972) is assistant professor at Delft University of Technology since October 2008. He obtained his PhD in September 2002 from Utrecht University for research conducted at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam. In the following years, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at University of Twente and as a research fellow at ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Castelldefels (Barcelona) in Spain. In 2008, he spent 8 months at Utrecht University.

Research interests: electron and optical microscopy, high-resolution imaging (nanoscopy), nanophotonics, optical antennas, colloid and nanoparticle self-assembly