UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) The cool state of water: Infrared insights into ice Smit, W.J. Publication date 2016 Document Version Final published version License Other Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Smit, W. J. (2016). The cool state of water: Infrared insights into ice. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:23 Sep 2021 About the author Wilbert Smit (Amsterdam, 4 June 1989) grew up in Hoofddorp and completed his secondary education at the KSH grammar school in 2007. He then studied Mathematics and Physics at Utrecht University and was awarded both his B.Sc. degrees cum laude in 2010. To pursue his Master’s degree in Physics he subse- quently moved to ETH Zurich. Wilbert spent the summer of 2011 at CERN, Geneva, working together with Dr. Werner Lustermann for the purposes of an internship. In 2012 he received his M.Sc. ETH in Physics, writing a theoretical dissertation in the field of solid-state physics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Manfred Sigrist. In 2012 Wilbert joined the group of Prof. Dr. Huib Bakker at the AMOLF Institute in Amsterdam to embark on his Ph.D. research employing ultrafast spectroscopy techniques to study ice, resulting in this thesis. His Ph.D. research projects on monocrystalline ice have been carried out in conjunction with the research group of Prof. Dr. Mischa Bonn at the Max Planck Institute for Poly- mer Research in Mainz. During his Ph.D. research, he also spent several weeks at the EPFL collaborating with Prof. Dr. Sylvie Roke to study the freezing behaviour of emulsions using sum-frequency scattering spectroscopy. Among other activities, in his free time Wilbert loves experiencing the slipperiness of ice on his ice skates. Jaap Edenbaan, Amsterdam, 2013 1651.