Mathieu Baltussen
Prebiotic origin of reaction networks, In vitro reaction networks for molecular information processing, Robot Lab
About me
Mathieu earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy at Radboud University, and a double master’s degree in Nanomaterials Science and Experimental Physics at Utrecht University. He completed his bachelor thesis in the Huck Group, where he explored the impact of temperature oscillations on enzymatic reaction networks. For his master’s thesis, Mathieu spent a year with the Colloid Group at Oxford University, where he studied grain boundary dynamics in colloidal crystals. He has since returned to Nijmegen for his PhD, investigating concepts of information processing and computation in (bio)chemical reaction networks, and developing techniques, methods, and applications to use chemical reaction networks as computational systems using Bayesian techniques and concepts from reservoir computation.
Interests
(Bio)chemical reaction networks,
Information processing,
Complex systems,
Reservoir computation,
Bayesian inference
Education
BSc Chemistry and BSc Physics & Astronomy, 2018, Radboud University
MSc Nanomaterials and MSc Experimental Physics, 2021, Utrecht University