Location
We are situated on the beautiful campus of Wageningen University and Research (WUR). We belong to the Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter chair group (PCC), a vibrant and multidisciplinary group of people.
Postal address: Helix, 124, Stippeneng 4, 6708 WE, Wageningen, the Netherlands
PhD positions
A recent PhD position on the topic of role of lipid bilayers in gecko and insect adhesion has been just filled in!
Mosaic 2.0 is a PhD scholarship program aimed at the under-represented group of graduates with a migration background from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and Turkey in the Netherlands. Please follow the link for more details, and contact me if you are interested and eligible to apply.
Postdoc positions
For recently graduated PhDs interested in doing a postdoc with us, several personal funding options exist:
MSCA postdoctoral fellowship: For those who are moving countries and are within a year after finishing the PhD. Application deadline: 13 September 2023.
WGS Postdoc Talent Programme: Wageningen Graduate School (WGS) offers talented researchers from abroad the opportunity to start a career at Wageningen University & Research by offering a two-year position within one of the research groups. Application deadline: October 2024.
The broad topics to work with would be biomolecular condensates, microfluidics, and biosensing using liquid crystals, but we are always open to new, exciting ideas that fit the overall interest of our lab.
If you are interested, please send me an email with your CV and motivation to apply.
Thesis and internship students
We are always looking for enthusiastic Bachelor and Master students who are keen on getting hands-on experience with research through projects, theses, internships, etc.
Here are some BSc/MSc project topics that might interest you; most of these topics fit not just Molecular Life Sciences students but also students from various other programs as indicated. If any of these topics interest you, feel free to simply email me and ask for more information about the ongoing projects.
- Lab-on-a-chip synthetic cell engineering (Biotechnology)
- Understanding the interactions between protein condensates and lipid membranes (Biochemistry)
- Understanding tick adhesion (Biology)
- Role of protein condensates in determining polarity in plant cells (Plant Biotechnology, Plant sciences)
- Plant-based alternatives to mimicking milk fat droplets (Food Technology)
- Analyzing the presence of intrinsically disordered proteins in bioadhesives (Bioinformatics, Systems Biology)
Funding agencies
