I am a PhD student at the Department of Bionanoscience at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology, where I work in experimental biophysics and develop nanopores - very tiny holes in thin membranes - as single-molecule biosensors. Before this, I studied theoretical physics and worked on calculating the entropy of black holes in string theory at the University of Amsterdam (pdf master thesis). I am also an editor at the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde (NTvN).

Some background on nanopores and on my research can be found here: In the News. See also our NTvN review. Here is a complete list of my Publications, including both scientific (in English) and popular scientific (in Dutch) publications. The topic of my PhD research is "Solid-state nanopores for scanning single molecules and mimicking biology".

You are also invited to take a look at the webpage of the lab where I work: http://ceesdekkerlab.tudelft.nl/ A fun group! Check out what we scientists do when we don't do science: here's a movie from our canyoning trip in the Pyrenees http://ceesdekkerlab.tudelft.nl/news/canyoning/

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NEWS: our paper "Single-molecule transport across an individual biomimetic nuclear pore complex" is now out in Nature Nanotechnology 6, 433-438 (2011) http://bit.ly/kBWj3S

PRESS RELEASE TU DELFT http://bit.ly/jYoENQ or in Dutch http://bit.ly/lBNrFx