Gijsberta Hendrika (Gijsje) Koenderink (born 1974) [1] is a Dutch biophysicist whose research investigates the biomechanics of cells and their substructures, and the use of lipids in nanobiotechnology. She is a professor in the Bionanoscience Department in the Delft University of Technology. [2]
Koenderink earned a master's degree in physical chemistry at Utrecht University in 1998, and completed her Ph.D. there in 2003. After postdoctoral study at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Harvard University, she worked for AMOLF, a research institute in Amsterdam, from 2006 to 2019, heading the Biological Soft Matter group and (beginning in 2014) the Living Matter Department there. She took her present position at the Delft University of Technology in 2019. [2]
Koenderink was elected to the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2008. [2] [3] In 2021, TU Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems gave Koenderink their Dresden Physics Prize. [4]
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The Delft University of Technology is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In 2023 it was ranked 2nd in the world in civil engineering, 3rd in the world in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and 3rd in the world in architecture.
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam.
TU Dresden (for German: Technische Universität Dresden, abbreviated as TUD and often called the Dresden University of Technology is a public research university in Dresden, Germany. It is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony and one of the 10 largest universities in Germany with 32,389 students as of 2018.
M.J. (Marc) de Vries, is professor of Reformational Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology.
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Johanna Maria Henrica (Anneke) Levelt Sengers is a Dutch physicist known for her work on critical states of fluids. She retired from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1994, after a 31 year career there. In 2005 Levelt Sengers was co-chair for the InterAcademy Council of the advisory report 'Women for Science' published June 2006. She currently co-chairs the InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences women for science program.
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Isabel W.C.E. Arends is a Dutch chemist and professor of biocatalysis and organic chemistry at Utrecht University. She was appointed dean of its Faculty of Science in July 2018. Her research specializes in environmentally-friendly, or 'green', chemistry; for example, using enzymes as biocatalysts while avoiding the need for toxic solvents.
Joseph J.M. Braat is a Dutch optics engineer and scientist. Between 1973 and 1998 he worked at Philips Research Laboratories. He was professor of optics at Delft University of Technology between 1998 and 2008.
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