On 22 September 2025, Mathieu Baltussen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Thinking in Molecules” and became the 32nd Dr. in the Huck group. Not only did he obtain his PhD but he did so in style by being awarded the PhD cum laude!
Congratulations, Mathieu!! We are exceptionally proud of your wonderful achievement! 👏🎉
On 16 September 2025, Melde Witmond successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “To signal or not to signal” and became the 31st Dr. in the Huck group.
Congratulations, Melde!! We wish you all the best with your future career! 🥂🎉
On 2 July, 2025, Mart Bartelds successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Cell-free characterization of post-transcriptional regulators for the development of dynamic gene circuits” and became the 30th Dr. in the Huck group.
Congratulations, Mart!! We wish you all the best with your future career! 🥂🎉
Our esteemed enzymologist, Nikita Ivanov has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Emergent phenomena in artificial enzymatic reaction networks” on Friday 2 May, 2025. Nikita became 29th Dr. in the Huck group!
Big congratulations, Nikita!! You deserved it! All the best to your future career! 🥳🎉
On 17th December, 2024, Peer van Duppen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “The Formose Reaction Prebiotic Soup or Recipe for Life?”. Peer became #28 Dr. in the Huck group!
Big congratulations, Peer!! You deserved it! All the best to your future career! 🥳🎉
On 14 June, 2024, Cristina Lía Fernández Regueiro successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Modular Enzymatic Networks: Towards Enzymatic Information Processing”. Lía became #27 Dr. in the Huck group!
Big congratulations, Lía!! You deserved it! All the best to your future career! 🥳🎉
On 22 January, 2024, Bob van Sluijs successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Decoding Complexity: Maximizing the Information About Partially Observed Nonlinear Networks”. Bob became #26 Dr. in the Huck group!
Congratulations Dr. Bob! It’s a well deserved title and you did an amazing job! All the best to your future career! 😎🥳
On Monday (4 December, 2023) Andrei Sakai successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Construction of a minimal synthetic cell”. Andrei became #25 Dr. in the Huck group!
Congratulations Dr. Andrei! We’re very proud of you! All the best to your future career! 😎🥳
Yesterday (19 September, 2023) Ludo Schoenmakers successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Functionalizing Synthetic Cells Membranes and Condensates”. Ludo became #24 Dr. in the Huck group!
Congratulations Dr. Ludo! We’re very proud of you! All the best to your future career in Vienna!
Last Tuesday (5 September, 2023) Xinyu Hu successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Towards spatial profiling RNAs and proteins in single cells”. Xinyu became #23 Dr. in the Huck group!
Congratulations Dr. Xinyu! We’re very proud of you!
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