Steven Hoekstra

Research webpage

Research group


[Picture]
Part of the NL-eEDM team around the molecule decelerator (april 2024)

People


PhD student
Optical detection and cooling of Stark-decelerated SrF and BaF
technician
Technician
PhD student
Cryogenic source for polyatomic molecules
PhD student
Precision measurements in optical traps
PhD student
Deceleration and trapping of molecules
PhD student
Polyatomic molecules
Master student
Laser cooling of a molecular beam
Master student
Deceleration of molecules
Master student
Electric trapping of nanoparticles

Collaborators


Atomic and molecular physics, methods in theoretical chemistry/physics, relativistic calculations, physics beyond the Standard Model, properties of heavy and superheavy elements. @VSI Groningen
Cooling and manipulating molecules, precision tests of fundamental physics theories using molecules. @VSI and @VU Amsterdam.
Precision measurements of atoms, ions, molecules for fundamental physics. @VSI Groningen.

Alumni


PhD student
Intense slow beams of heavy molecules to test fundamental symmetries
PhD student
Dynamics of molecular beams in a traveling-wave Stark decelerator
PhD Student
Traveling-wave Stark deceleration of SrF molecules
PhD student
Obtaining ultracold molecules through Stark deceleration and laser cooling
PhD student
Production and deceleration of SrF molecules
PhD student
Production, deceleration and trapping of SrF molecules
Master student
Exploring short time-scales of a levitated nanosphere
Deceleration and cooling
Erasmus engineering student
Deceleration and cooling
Master student
Master student
Design of a cryogenic source for polyatomic molecules
Postdoc
eEDM measurement, laser cooling, polyatomic molecules
PhD student
Optically trapped nanospheres as sensitive detectors (with George Palasantzas)
PhD student
Molecular spectroscopy and laser cooling (with Lorenz Willmann)
Master student
Lasercooling molecules
Master student
Deceleration of molecules
PhD student
Production, deceleration and cooling of SrF and BaF (with Rick Bethlem)