People
(Group picture at the Etna Volcano, Sicily. Hover your cursor onto the image to see us enjoying ourselves.)
Group Leader
Prof. Dr. Cees Dekker
Room F1.230
+31-(0)15-27 86094
C.Dekker@[TUD].nl
Principal Investigator
CV can be found here
Administrative support
Amanda van der Vlist
Room F1.020
+31-(0)15-27 89352
A.vandervlist@[TUD].nl
Management assistant
Postdocs
Mitasha Bharadwaj
Room F0.150
+31-(0)15-27 88780
M.Bharadwaj@[TUD].nl
Research:
Sabina Caneva
(Shared supervision with Herre van der Zant)
Room F0.210
+31-(0)15-27 88780
S.L.Caneva@[TUD].nl
Research: Graphene junctions
Siddharth Deshpande
Room F0.190
+31-(0)15-2788331
S.R.Deshpande@[TUD].nl
Research: Synthetic cell division
Aleksandre Japaridze
Room F0.170
+31-(0)15-2788331
A.Japaridze@[TUD].nl
Research: Prokaryotic chromosome structure
Eugene Kim
Room F0.190
+31-(0)15-2788331
E.Kim@[TUD].nl
Research:DNA super coiling
Paola de Magistris
Room F0.150
+31-(0)15-27 8
P.demagistris@[TUD].nl
Research:
Greg Pawlik
Room F0.210
+31-(0)15-278 4561
G.Pawlik@[TUD].nl
Research:Min proteins
Sergii Pud
Room F0.190
+31-(0)15-2788331
S.Pud@[TUD].nl
Research: Plasmonic nanopores
Je-Kyung Ryu
Room F0.170
+31-(0)15-2788756
J.Ryu@[TUD].nl
Research: Cohesin
Sonja Schmid
Room F0.230
+31-(0)15-278 7915
S.schmid@[TUD].nl
Research: Protein sequencing with nanopores
Kevin Whitley
Room F0.230
+31-(0)15-2787915
K.D.Whitley@[TUD].nl
Research: Imaging the bacterial divisome
Graduate students
Anthony Birnie
Room F0.150
a.t.f.birnie@[TUD].nl
Research: DNA structure in fluidic chambers
Michel Bengtson
Room F0.210
+31-(0)15-27 88780
M.L.Bengtson@[TUD].nl
Research: Crispr/Cas diagnostic devices
Alberto Blanch Jover
Room F0.230
+31-(0)15-2787915
A.Blanchjover@[TUD].nl
Research: Archaeal cell division
MSc. Federico Fanalista
Room F0.170
+31-(0)15-27 84561
F.Fanalista@[TUD].nl
Research: Synthetic cell division
Alessio Fragasso
Room F0.170
+31-(0)15-27 84561
A.Fragasso@[TUD].nl
Research: Biomimetic nanopores
Yoones Kabiri
(Shared supervision with Henny Zandbergen)
Room F0.210
+31-(0)15-27 88780
Y.Kabiri@[TUD].nl
Research: TEM imaging of DNA
Nils Klughammer
Room F
+31-(0)15-27 8
N.Klughammer@[TUD].nl
Research:
Laura Restrepo Perez
(Shared supervision with Chirlmin Joo)
Room F
+31-(0)15-27 87655
L.RestrepoPerez@[TUD].nl
Research: Protein nanopores
Xin Shi
Room F
+31-(0)15-27 89299
X.Shi@[TUD].nl
Research: Raman spectroscopy with plasmonic nanopores
Daniel Verschueren
Room F0.150
+31-(0)15-27 89299
D.V.Verschueren@[TUD].nl
Research: Plasmonic nanopores
Wayne Yang
Room F0.170
+31-(0)15-27 89299
W.W.W.Yang@[TUD].nl
Research: Graphene plasmonic nanopores
Master students
Roman Barth
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Kevin Charles
Bachelor students
Ralph de Groot
Nico Kerkhoven
Wouter Kools
Researchers
Mart Last
Technicians (partly shared with other labs)
Dr. Allard Katan
Room F0.150
+31-(0)15-27 84561
A.J.Katan@[TUD].nl
Expertise: Scanning probe microscopy
Dr. Jacob W.J. Kerssemakers
Room F0.190
+31-(0)15-27 88331
J.W.J.Kerssemakers@[TUD].nl
Expertise: Single-molecule instrumentation
Eli van der Sluis
Room F0.110
+31-(0)15-27 86572
E.O.vandersluis@[TUD].nl
Expertise: Protein purification
Jaco van der Torre
Room E0.560
+31-(0)15-27 8
J.vanderTorre@[TUD].nl
Expertise: Molecular biology
Former graduate students, postdocs and visiting professors
| Yoones Kabiri | ASML lithography | 2018 |
| Ana Kalichava | 2018 | |
| Stephanie Heerema | Consultant McKinsey | 2018 |
| Jorine Eeftens | Postdoc Princeton | 2018 |
| Mahipal Ganji | Postdoc, MPI Martinsried | 2018 |
| Adithya Ananth | Research scientist TNO | 2018 |
| Jakub Wiktor | Postdoc, Uppsala University | 2017 |
| Yaron Caspi | Postdoc, Utrecht | 2016 |
| Sung Hyun Kim | Research Fellow, Seoul National University,South Korea | 2016 |
| Fabai Wu | Postdoc, Caltech | 2016 |
| Calin Plesa | Postdoc, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry | 2015 |
| Felix Hol | Postdoc, Stanford University | 2015 |
| Rifka Vlijm | Postdoc, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) | 2014 |
| Tim Blosser | Fellow Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT | 2014 |
| Daniel Burnham | Fellow, University of London | 2014 |
| Magnus Jonsson | Assistant Professor, Linköping University | 2014 |
| Alireza Mashaghi | Fellow, Harvard University | 2013 |
| Gautam Soni | Assistant Professor, Raman Istitute Bangalore | 2013 |
| Timothy Blosser | Postdoc, Delft University of Technology | 2013 |
| Rutger Hermsen | Assistant Professor, University of Utrecht | 2013 |
| Gregory Schneider | Assistant Professor, Leiden University | 2013 |
| Marijn Loenhout | Postdoc, University of British Columbia | 2012 |
| Hugo Snippert | Assistant Professor, AZU, University of Utrecht | 2012 |
| Iwijn de Vlaminck | Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University | 2012 |
| Stefan Kowalczyk | Patent examiner, European Patent Office | 2012 |
| Jaan Mannik | Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | 2011 |
| Michiel van den Hout | Project Manager, Stork | 2010 |
| Iddo Heller | Postdoc, VU University Amsterdam | 2010 |
| Peter Galajda | Assistant Professor, Hungarian Academy of Sciences | 2010 |
| Adam Hall | Assistant professor, Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences | 2010 |
| Frank Wiertz | Project leader, Groen Agro Control | 2008 |
| Ralph Smeets | Consultant, Turner | 2008 |
| Thijn van der Heijden | Entrepreneur, Boston | 2008 |
| Martin van den Heuvel | Consultant, Boston Consulting Group | 2008 |
| Freek Hoeben | Scientist, Symo-Chem | 2008 |
| Christine Meyer | Group leader, SEW company | 2008 |
| Irene Dujovne | Research Scientist, University Massachusetts Amherst | 2008 |
| Daniel Koster | Assistant Professor, Hebrew University | 2007 |
| Koen Besteman | Consultant, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants | 2007 |
| Frank van der Heyden | Research engineer, Shell | 2007 |
| Diego Krapf | Associate Professor, Colorado State University | 2007 |
| Ulrich Keyser | Associate Professor, University of Cambridge | 2006 |
| Derek Stein | Associate Professor, Brown University | 2006 |
| Dirk Heering | Assistant Professor, University of Leiden | 2006 |
| Minot Ethan | Associate Professor, Oregon State University | 2006 |
| Brian LeRoy | Associate Professor, University of Arizona | 2006 |
| Fernando Moreno Herrero | Associate Professor, National Center of Biotechnology, CSIC, Madrid | 2006 |
| Ralf Seidel | Full Professor, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster | 2006 |
| Marion van Brederode | Chemistry teacher | 2005 |
| Günter Lientschnig | University Assistant, Vienna University of Technology | 2004 |
| Jing Kong | Associate professor, MIT | 2004 |
| Arnold Storm | Lead scientist, TNO | 2004 |
| Keith Williams | Program Manager and CTO based at Naval Research Laboratory & Visiting Professor University of Virginia | 2004 |
| Gilles Gaudin | Researcher, Spintec Grenoble | 2003 |
| John van Noort | Associate Professor, Leiden University | 2003 |
| Sean Ling | Full professor, Brown University | 2003 |
| Henk Postma | Associate Professor, California State University Northridge | 2002 |
| Jeong-O Lee | Principal researcher, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology | 2002 |
| Jorg Janssen | Managing director, Regiegroep Life Sciences & Health | 2001 |
| Adrian Bachtold | Professor, ICFO Spain | 2001 |
| Serge Lemay | Full professor, University of Twente | 2001 |
| Liesbeth Venema | Senior editor, Nature London | 2000 |
| Andrew Dunn | Financial sector, London | 2000 |
| Zhen Yao | Associate Professor, University of Austin | 2000 |
| Danny Porath | Professor, Hebrew University | 2000 |
| Onno Mantel | Consultant, TNO | 1999 |
| Jeroen Wildoer | Manager, NXP Semiconductors | 1999 |
| Sander Tans | Full professor, TU Delft, AMOLF | 1998 |
| Herre van der Zant | Full professor, TU Delft | 1998 |
| Alexey Bezryadin | Full professor, University of Illinois | 1997 |
| Michel Devoret | Full professor, Yale University | 1995 |
| Feike Liefrink | Examiner, European patent office | 1993 |
| Pieter Wöltgens | Senior Principal Architect, ASML | 1993 |
Former bachelor and master students
| My Nguyen | 2018 |
| S. Faes | 2018 |
| Jacinta van de Grint | 2018 |
| Shimroy William | 2018 |
| Allison Wolder | 2018 |
| Christos Gogou | 2018 |
| Valerie Smit | 2018 |
| Dung Dang | 2017 |
| Mart Last | 2017 |
| Kasper Spoelstra | 2017 |
| Thomas Kok | 2017 |
| Nikola Vukovic | 2016 |
| Casper van Engelenburg | 2016 |
| Tim van de Veen | 2016 |
| Xuan Zheng | 2016 |
| Diederik Laman Trip | 2016 |
| Thomas van der Sijs | 2016 |
| Lisa Buller | 2016 |
| Kasper Spoelstra | 2016 |
| Marit van der Does | 2016 |
| Jobbe van der Maesen | 2015 |
| Illias Zarguit | 2015 |
| Liza de Wilde | 2015 |
| Roderick Versloot | 2015 |
| Margot Guurink | 2015 |
| Felicia Tjien-Fooh | 2015 |
| Nicole Berghuis | 2015 |
| Misha Klein | 2015 |
| Thierry van Thiel | 2015 |
| Louis Kuijpers | 2015 |
| Arvind Dwarkasing | 2014 |
| Rayner Schelwald | 2014 |
| Hirad Daneshpour Aryadi | 2014 |
| Enzo Kingma | 2014 |
| Nick van Loo | 2014 |
| Roban van Herk | 2014 |
| Vishnu Baldew | 2013 |
| Kevin Felter | 2013 |
| Claire Hurkmans | 2013 |
| Cleo Jongedijk | 2013 |
| Coen Gulcher | 2013 |
| Auke Booij | 2013 |
| Maryse Bouwens | 2013 |
| Daan Broekhuijsen | 2013 |
| Stephan van Hoesel | 2013 |
| Bas Nijholt | 2013 |
| Mathijs Rozemuller | 2013 |
| Just Ruitenberg | 2013 |
| Bas van Schie | 2013 |
| Menno Witteveen | 2013 |
| Kevin Felter | 2013 |
| Daan Achterbergh | 2012 |
| Jort Allebrandi | 2012 |
| Peter van den Berg | 2012 |
| Ludo Cornellissen | 2012 |
| Erik Gaarenstroom | 2012 |
| Willem Kesteloo | 2012 |
| Bart Manintveld | 2012 |
| Samet Mercan | 2012 |
| Adnan Oner | 2012 |
| Marcel van Schie | 2012 |
| Johnny Spoor | 2012 |
| Richard Switser | 2012 |
| Bruno van den Toorn | 2012 |
| Laurens Wester | 2012 |
| Rutger Woolhuis | 2012 |
| Ruben Zinsmeester | 2012 |
| Benedetta Flebus | 2011 |
| Lodewijk Frima | 2011 |
| Danny de Graaff | 2011 |
| Okke Groen | 2011 |
| Mark de Grunt | 2011 |
| Rini Joseph | 2011 |
| Maarten Kieft | 2011 |
| Stephanie Luik | 2011 |
| Edwin Rijgersberg | 2011 |
| Jeremy Smithuijzen | 2011 |
| Dorine van der Vlies | 2011 |
| Simon van Vliet | 2011 |
| Mathias Voges | 2011 |
| Xuyi Wang | 2011 |
| Ludovit Zweifel | 2011 |
| Tom Henighan | 2011 |
| Iris van Dam | 2010 |
| Heleen Doolaard | 2010 |
| R.P. van Elsas | 2010 |
| Stephanie Heerema | 2010 |
| Wyke Huizinga | 2010 |
| Vlad Karas | 2010 |
| Johannes Keegstra | 2010 |
| Tomás Magalhãs | 2010 |
| Pauline van Nies | 2010 |
| Janneke Noorlag | 2010 |
| Rutger Rozendaal | 2010 |
| Kasper van Schie | 2010 |
| Koen Schuurbiers | 2010 |
| Andrew Scott | 2010 |
| Farzad Sekhavati | 2010 |
| Fabai Wu | 2010 |
| Rosalie Driessen | 2009 |
| Koen Hooning | 2009 |
| Bas van Schie | 2009 |
| Pieter Schoustra | 2009 |
| Maarten Tuijtel | 2009 |
| Tim Weenink | 2009 |
| Stephanie Feldman | 2008 |
| Kiona Halma | 2008 |
| Karin Jansen | 2008 |
| Michiel Jol | 2008 |
| Wiljan Smaal | 2008 |
| Joris Besseling | 2007 |
| Johan den Blanken | 2007 |
| Sabine Bolhuis | 2007 |
| Zeno Deurvorst | 2007 |
| Vishal Merani | 2007 |
| Harm Nieuwstadt | 2007 |
| Leo Polak | 2007 |
| Yi Shen | 2007 |
| Anne Janssens | 2007 |
| Stijn van Dorp | 2006 |
| Wiecher Kamping | 2006 |
| Stefan Meijer | 2006 |
| Vijay Pahilwani | 2006 |
| Joost Bloom | 2005 |
| Christopher Butcher | 2005 |
| Alexei Chepelianskii | 2005 |
| Martijn de Graaff | 2005 |
| Kees Klein | 2005 |
| Bernhard Koeleman | 2005 |
| Nadine Wennersbusch | 2005 |
| Douwe Bonthuis | 2004 |
| Remco den Dulk | 2004 |
| Robert van Duuren | 2004 |
| Iddo Heller | 2004 |
| Pieter van ‘t Hof | 2004 |
| Laurens Holtzer | 2004 |
| Wiepke Koopmans | 2004 |
| Maarten Kruithof | 2004 |
| Hendrikje van Leest | 2004 |
| Marcel Zevenbergen | 2004 |
| Elisa Bot | 2003 |
| Dennis van den Broek | 2003 |
| Koert van Eijk | 2003 |
| Sander Otte | 2003 |
| Carsten van der Scheer | 2003 |
| Ralph Smeets | 2003 |
| Oscar Vazquez Mena | 2003 |
| Muhammed Yildirim | 2003 |
| Koen Besteman | 2002 |
| Marko Dorrestijn | 2002 |
| Thijn van den Heijden | 2002 |
| Sander Verbrugge | 2002 |
| Michiel van den Hout | 2001 |
| Maarten Mooij | 2001 |
| Thijs Teepen | 2001 |
| Nathan Kemerling | 2000 |
| M.A.H. Dohmen | 1999 |
| Mark de Jonge | 1999 |
| Arjan Kalwij | 1999 |
| Erik Svensson | 1999 |
| Kees Bal | 1998 |
| Frédéric Chalin | 1998 |
| Christiaan Langenzaal | 1998 |
| Niek van Remortel | 1998 |
| A.J. Sellmeijer | 1998 |
| Mark Buitelaar | 1998 |
| Hinne Temminck Tuinstra | 1998 |
| Remco Groeneveld | 1997 |
| Paul Rutten | 1997 |
| Alwin Verschueren | 1997 |
| Pieter Heij | 1996 |
| Rients Miedema | 1996 |
| Bas Obendorf | 1996 |
| Frank Garten | 1993 |
| Wouter Oepts | 1993 |
| Kees Schep | 1993 |
| Jeroen Swüste | 1993 |
| Hans Le Grand | 1990 |
| Wytze Muijzert | 1990 |
| A.J. Scholten | 1990 |
| Rene van Swaaij | 1990 |
| M.P. van Eekhout | 1988 |
| Jos Engelbert | 1988 |
| Frank Hekking | 1988 |
| Carla van der Kolk | 1988 |
| Ar. C.H.I. Leenaers | 1987 |
| Geurt Deinum | 1986 |