Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Bregje Wertheim did her undergraduate Biology studies at Leiden University and obtained a PhD at Wageningen University. She then did two postdocs, at University College London and Imperial College London, where she learned novel genomic technologies to investigate evolution in Drosophila environmental stress responses. She acquired a skill set…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. Dr. Nathalie Katsonis is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Groningen, where she explores the molecular origins of movement in systems of interacting molecules. She has led the charge in pushing the boundaries of artificial molecular machines, paving the way for their implementation in bio-inspired and smart materials.…
Profile of the supervisor Rifka Vlijm performed her PhD in the group of Prof.dr. Cees Dekker at the Bionanoscience department of the technical university Delft. Next, she moved to the group of Nobel laureate Prof.dr. Stefan Hell, enabled by both an EMBL long-term fellowship (molecular biology) and a Rubicon grant (proposal ranked 1, physics). Here…
Profile of the supervisor Dr. Katarzyna (Kasia) Tych was trained as an electronic engineer and did a PhD in biophysics. The KT lab now Her research involves single-molecule characterisation of proteins using mass photometry (iSCAT), force spectroscopy and fluorescence with the optical tweezers and optical microscopy. In combination with structural work and biochemical studies, her…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Marleen Kamperman received her PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. From 2008 to 2010, she was a postdoctoral researcher at INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, Germany. She started her group ‘Bioinspired Functional Polymers’ as Assistant Professor at Wageningen University in…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Rampal Etienne was first fascinated by the physical world around us, and asking philosophical questions. But he was also concerned with our treatment of the world around us. Armed with three MSc degrees (physics, philosophy of science and environmental science) and a year of experience as a lecturer in…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Martijn Egas obtained a PhD in biology at the University of Amsterdam and after a post-doc period at the IIASA institute (Vienna) he got a tenure position at the University of Amsterdam to study the role of behaviour in eco-evolutionary dynamics both in theory and experiment. In particular he…
Profile of the supervisor Sander van Doorn studied Biology at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and is currently an Associate Professor at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences. His work in evolutionary systems biology has a clear interdisciplinary profile, connecting questions, ideas, and concepts from evolutionary biology, systems biology, (microbial) ecology, and complex systems…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Ben L. Feringa obtained his PhD degree at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. After working as a research scientist at Shell in the Netherlands and the UK he was appointed professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Groningen. He is currently the Jacobus van ‘t Hoff…
Profile of the supervisor Prof. dr. Sijbren Otto is Professor of Systems Chemistry at the University of Groningen. After a PhD in Groningen in 1998, a postdoc in the US and the UK, he started his academic career in 2001 at the University of Cambridge. He moved back to Groningen in 2009. He holds an…