Alumni
Özlem Özge Yilmaz
Internship at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from June 2018 to September 2019
Lorena Ruiz Rodriguez
PhD student at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from September 2015 to May 2019
Thesis: Osmotic pressure effects on collagen mimetic peptides
Anne Hahmann
Technical assistant at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from July 2018 to September 2019
Aurora Soto Arroyo
Internship Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from April 2015 to June 2019
Anna Pohl
PhD student and PostDoc at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from September 2015 to May 2019
Thesis: Shaping via binding: Do Mad proteins determine anisotropic growth of magnetite crystals?
now PostDoc at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California at Riverside, USA
Patricia López García
PhD student at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from July 2015 to March 2019
Thesis: Structural Determinants of Coiled Coil Mechanics
now PostDoc at the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta, Canada
Tara Schmitz
MSc student at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from March 2018 to October 2018
Thesis: Interaction of magnetosomal proteins with synthetic magnetite nanoparticles
now PhD student at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Ruben Romero Moreno
Internship at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces fromApril 2018 to June 2018
Emilia Grad
PhD student at RU Nijmegen and at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from September 2013 to June 2018
Alberto Sanz de León
PostDoc at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from April 2016 to April 2018
now PostDoc (Juan de la Cierva fellow) at the Department of Materials Science at the University of Cádiz, Spain
Anne Heilig
Research assistant at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from February 2017 to April 2017
Silvia Fernandez Gandara
Internship at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from April 2017 to June 2017
Renukka Yaadav
MSc student at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from January 2017 to June 2017
Thesis: Single molecule force spectroscopy of the N-terminal domain (NTD) of spider silk proteins
now PhD student at the Department of Chemistry at LMU Munich
Joanna Kaszuba
Internship at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from March 2017 to May 2017
Ana Kalichava
Research assistant at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from February 2017 to April 2017
Daniel Farhadi
MSc student at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from August 2016 to February 2017
Thesis: Cloning, expression and characterization of the magnetite-binding protein Mad10 from Desulfamplus magnetovallimortis BW-1
Petri Turunen
PhD student and PostDoc at RU Nijmegen from July 2011 to February 2017
Thesis: Single-Enzyme Kinetics with Fluorogenic Substrates: Strategies Towards Accurate Single-Turnover Detection
now PostDoc at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Ruby Sullan
PostDoc at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces from January 2014 to December 2016
now assistant professor at Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
Bob Ignacio
BSc and MSc student at RU Nijmegen from November 2014 to July 2016
BSc Thesis: Mono-biotinylation of polyisocyanopeptides
MSc Thesis: Polyisocyanopeptide-based artificial antigen presenting cells
now PhD student at the Institute of Molecules and Materials, RU Nijmegen, Netherlands
Roel Hammink
PhD student at RU Nijmegen from November 2011 to January 2016
Thesis: Water-soluble polyisocyanopeptides – development of multifunctional bioconjugates for biomedical applications
now PostDoc at the Department of Tumor Immunology at RU Nijmegen, Netherlands
Themistoklis Zisis
PhD student at RU Nijmgen from October 2011 to September 2015
now PostDoc at the Department of Pharmacy at LMU Munich, Germany
Anne Coenen
MSc student at RU Nijmegen from November 2013 to May 2015
Thesis: Polyisocyanopeptides as synthetic dendritic cells
now PhD student at Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials, Maastricht, Netherlands
Monique Jacobs
PhD student at RU Nijmegen from September 2010 to December 2014
Thesis: Molecular Force Sensors – molecular insights into mechanochemical signal conversion
now design engineer at ASML, Netherlands
Sophie Ripp
PhD student at RU Nijmegen from September 2010 to August 2014
travelling between Canada and France, now with daughter Zoey
Ren Xie
BSc student at RU Nijmegen from February 2014 to July 2014
Thesis: Towards designing and optimizing a novel approach to studying the catalytic mechanism of Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase in single molecule detail
Anna Wasiel
PostDoc at RU Nijmegen from May 2012 to December 2013
now Regulatory Affairs Manager at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Netherlands
Malgorzata Sleszynska
PostDoc at RU Nijmegen from April 2012 to September 2013
Junior Consultant at Zwiers Regulatory Consultancy, Netherlands
Joost Lamain
BSc and MSc student at RU Nijmegen from April 2012 to August 2013
BSc thesis: Immobilization of Streptomyces griseus Aminopeptidase (SgAP) for Single Molecule Studies
MSc thesis: Fluorogenic substrates for single molecule studies of the promiscuous activity in Streptomyces griseus aminopeptidase
Gabriel Thomassen
BSc student at RU Nijmegen from October 2012 to April 2013
Thesis: Expression and characterization of SgAP for use in single-molecule experiments
Joris Bults
BSc student at RU Nijmegen from February 2012 to July 2012
Thesis: Synthesis towards a maleimide functionalized isocyanide monomer
Joske de Groot
BSc student at RU Nijmegen from April 2012 to June 2012
Thesis: Characterisation of the unbinding of the PEG-PEG antibody pair via AFM force measurements
Hester Davelaar
BSc student at RU Nijmegen from April 2012 to June 2012
Thesis: Immobilization of Thermolysin‐like Protease for Single Molecule Studies with Confocal Microscopy
Peter Gerven
BSc student at RU Nijmegen from January 2012 to June 2012
Thesis: Protein immobilization: immobilization of fibronectin on a glass surface
Aswin Levels
BSc student at RU Nijmegen from February 2012 to April 2012
Thesis: Diffusion studies in polyisocyanide hydrogels
Sheila Ruiz Botella
Erasmus internship at RU Nijmegen in 2011
Topic: Evaluation of Themolysin activity using FRET
Roger Rikken
MSc student at RU Nijmegen from September 2010 to August 2011
Thesis: Influence of static magnetic fields on the activity of enzymes
now lecturer at Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg, Netherlands
Muriel van Teeseling
MSc student at RU Nijmegen from September 2009 to August 2010
Thesis: Studies on the enzyme activity of mutant and wildtype Candida antarctica lipase B in ensemble and on a single molecule level
now PostDoc at Philipps University Marburg, Germany