Leonardo obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology in 2018 and his Master’s degree in Molecular and Cell Biology in 2021 at University of Bologna, as a member of Collegio Superiore. For his Master thesis, he worked for one year in the group of Bacterial Genetics at Wageningen University & Research, focusing on CRISPR/Cas9, DNA repair […]
Thijs de Jong got his Master degree in Chemistry of Life at the Radboud University in 2021, during which he started in the Huck group for an internship. After his Master’s he is now continuing in the same lab as a PhD candidate. Thijs is interested in studying how chemical systems can be used to […]
The Late Night Conference is back in 2022! As always, you will also be able to get involved at home with our trademark, Wilhelm Huck-hosted, live streaming action. Now, we’re exploring ‘Artificial Life’. We’ve got this covered from every angle. Synthetic cells, artificial intelligence and responsive robots. We are excited to introduce the first guest […]
There is a yearly tradition to exchange socks and write poems during The Secret Socks Santa game every December in our Physical Organic Chemistry department. We also have to guess who was our Secret Santa after carefully reading the poem. This makes the activity a really fun game!
Peer van Duppen gave a presentation in NWO CHAINS 2021 online conference, which is the annual Dutch Chemistry conference. Peer talked about temporal environmental patterns as driving force for self-organization in the formose reaction. Great work!
Congratulations to Peter van Dijk, who was awarded a Radboud University Bronze Medal! This Medal is awarded to staff members of Radboud University for their exceptional personal commitment and involvement. Peter van Dijk currently works as a prevention officer at the IMM and he started as an instrument maker and glass blower at the Faculty […]
Sphere Fluidics, a company which developed single cell analysis system and was co-founded by Wilhelm Huck, closed a $40 million investment round today. It was announced that Sofinnova Partners and Redmile Group were leading the round. The funding will be used for the expansion of the Company’s international sales activities, improving customer’s support and also […]
Congratulations Dr. Helwig! Today (25 October, 2021) Britta Helwig successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “From Enzymatic Reaction Networks Towards Synthetic Metabolic Pathways.” Great work Britta! Good luck to your future career!
Souvik obtained his BS-MS dual degrees in chemical sciences from IISER Kolkata, India and joined Huck group to pursuit Ph.D. journey (from September 1, 2021 onwards). Here, he will be working on designing/ reconstructing multiple enzymatic reaction networks via immobilizing enzymes onto beads to study networks dynamics and subsequently optimize to produce chemicals as outputs. […]
Rianne comes from a small town in the Netherlands, called Heino. She moved to Nijmegen and obtained both her bachelor’s and master’s degree at the Radboud University. During this time, she discovered the wonderful world of organic chemistry and was especially fascinated by photoswitchable molecules. Therefore, she will continue to work on the synthesis and […]