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 F0.210
+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: Point-of-care diagnostics
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
Nicola de Franceschi
Room F0.090
+31-(0)15-278
N.deFranceschi@[TUD].nl
Research:
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 89299
P.demagistris@[TUD].nl
Research: Biomimetic NPCs
Oscar Franch
Room F0.190
+31-(0)15-27 8 89299
O.Franch@[TUD].nl
Research:
Biswajit Pradhan
Room F0.090
+31-(0)15-2788331
B.Pradhan@[TUD].nl
Research:
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
Xin Shi
Room F0.090
+31-(0)15-27 89299
X.Shi@[TUD].nl
Research: Raman spectroscopy with plasmonic nanopores
Graduate students
Anthony Birnie
Room F0.150
a.t.f.birnie@[TUD].nl
Research: Genome-in-a-box
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
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
Wayne Yang
Room F0.170
+31-(0)15-27 89299
W.W.W.Yang@[TUD].nl
Research: Graphene plasmonic nanopores
Master students
Roman Barth
Tong You
Bachelor students
Chris van Dijk
Ralph de Groot
Madusha Hengst
Roos van Hoften
Rick Matthijssen
Myrthe Smit
Raman van Wee
Researchers
Mart Last
Quentin Plumat
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
| Sergii Pud | 2019 | |
| Yoones Kabiri | 2018 | |
| Daniel Verschueren | 2018 | |
| Greg Pawlik | 2018 | |
| 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 |