Molecular Sciences (Chemistry) University of Amsterdam

Overview

In this two-year track in the Master's programme Molecular Sciences (Chemistry) from the University of Amsterdam you are required to choose five courses from the following list of topics. As there are compulsory courses, you have the unique possibility of creating your own in-depth specialisation in a particular area of interest or design a programme in which various areas and methods are combined. Your second year is dedicated to your research project. It is also possible to follow this programme part-time. 

Careers

When you've become an expert in, for example, designing new compounds with specific properties, developing clean and selective catalysts or using the interaction of light and matter to observe and control chemical and physical processes, you will have the possibility to pursue careers:

• as PhD students at chemistry institutes around the world, progressing from there to careers in academia or industry

• in research, within industry (e.g. Philips, ASML, Shell and DSM)

• in research, within research institutes (e.g. TNO, KNMI and SRON)

• as teachers, within high schools or universities

• as (technical) policy officers, within (science-oriented) governmental and non-profit organisations

• in business (e.g. ICT companies, energy companies, investment banks, consultancy firms)

• as writers, for (science-oriented) media

• as entrepreneurs