Albert Polman (born 21 April 1961, Groningen) is a Dutch physicist and former director of the AMOLF research laboratory in Amsterdam.
Polman was one of the initiators of the Amsterdam nanoCenter, a regional facility for nanofabrication founded in 2003.
[1][2] Polman is one of the pioneers of the research field of nanophotonics: the control, understanding, and application of light at the nanoscale.
[3] Polman's research group at AMOLF specializes in fundamental studies at the interface between optical physics and materials science.
In 2009, Albert Polman was appointed as a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.