Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. ir. Adriaan J. Minnaard is full professor, and head of the department of Chemical Biology of the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry. He has always been fascinated by the question “how molecules react” and together with his group he works on the synthesis and structure elucidation of complex molecules and…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Dirk Slotboom was trained as a chemist and did a PhD in microbiology. The group of Slotboom now combines biophysical (X-ray crystallography, spectroscopy), biochemical (membrane enzymology) and microbiological methods to study the mechanisms of solute transport across membranes. He has made major contributions in elucidating the mechanism of the…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. ir. Marco W. Fraaije is a professor in Molecular Enzymology at the University of Groningen. He obtained his PhD in biochemistry in 1998 at the Wageningen University (NL). After a 2-years postdoctoral stay as EMBO-fellow at the University of Pavia (IT), doing protein crystallography, he continued his career at…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Matthias Heinemann studied engineering at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and in 2003 earned a PhD in biochemical engineering from the RWTH Aachen University (Germany). After a short postdoc in the bioprocess lab of the ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Matthias became group leader…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. P.R. (Patrick) Onck received his PhD (cum laude) from Delft University of Technology, followed by a postdoc position at Harvard University. Since 2012 he is full professor in computational (bio)physics at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen. His research is curiosity-driven and aimed at…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Wouter H. Roos obtained a PhD in biophysics in Heidelberg and after a post-doc period at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung (Stuttgart) and Institut Curie (Paris) he went to the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to focus on Physical Virology techniques and approaches. In particular he studied (and still studies) material properties…
Profile of the supervisor Dr. Roxanne Kieltyka was trained in the field of supramolecular chemistry related to DNA and materials. In her research group, she focuses on the development of supramolecular materials for applications in the biomedical area, namely in the areas of drug delivery and 3D cell culture. She is particularly interested in understanding…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Alexander Kros received his PhD in the group of Prof. Nolte at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. After two years as a postdoctoral scholar in the group of Prof. Dave Tirrell at Caltech, USA, he became an assistant professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Since 2014 he is…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Inga Kamp is a full professor for star and planet formation and astrochemistry at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen. She supervised/mentored in the past years five postdocs, of which three now hold permanent positions in research/academia. She has also extensive experience in supervising PhD, MSc…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Floris van der Tak was trained in astrophysics and astrochemistry in Leiden, Bonn, and Berkeley. Since moving to Groningen in 2006, his interest has expanded into astrobiology and exoplanet habitability. Central questions in his research are: Why do stars have a broad range of masses? How are organic molecules formed…