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

Alumni views

Read where this former student of Molecular Sciences ended up working after finishing the Master's programme: