Date and place of birth: March 28, 1966, Vinkeveen (The Netherlands)

Degrees

1990-1995     Ph.D. research in the Physical Organic Chemistry group of Prof. Dr. R.J.M. Nolte at the University of Nijmegen. Thesis entitled “Supramolecular assemblies from phthalocyanine building blocks”.

1984-1990     M.Sc. in Chemistry at the University of Nijmegen (master thesis in organic chemistry)

Work experience

1999-present Assistant and Associate Professor (2004), Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University

1997-1999     Assistant Professor of Coatings Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology

1996-1997     Post-doctoral research associate at Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Research Keywords: drug delivery systems, nanomedicines, polymer micelles, hydrogels, microspheres, microbubbles, biodegradable polymers, controlled release, photodynamic therapy.

Achievements:

• 28 invited lectures
• Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher award (2014; in recognition of ranking among the top 1% of researchers for most cited documents, in their specific field)
• The EJPS best paper award 2004: G.W. Bos et al., J. Pharm. Sci., 21 (2004), 561-567.
• Theme editor of an issue of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews on “Delivery of Photosensitizers in Photodynamic Therapy”, 2004
• Theme editor of a special issue of Int. J. Pharmaceutics with proceedings of the European Workshop of Particulate Systems, 2015.
• Co-promotor of 33 Ph.D. graduates
• 15 times member of Ph.D. graduation committees not as co-promotor.
• 5 times member of Ph.D. thesis approval committees
• 240 refereed papers (incl. 7 book chapters), which are >14,000 times cited (h-index 64).
• 14 patents (granted/submitted)

Personally acquired grants:

• Postdoc fellowship: STW-grant NCH44.3495 (1995-1997) “holographic imaging in anisotropic systems”.
• NWO-CW/STW grant 349-5622 (2001-2005): “novel biodegradable functional poly(a-hydroxy acid)s for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications”; 137 k€.
• NWO-CW/STW grant 790.36.110 (2003-2007): “polymeric micelles with transient stability: a novel and highly versatile drug delivery concept”, 595 k€.
• NWO-CW VIDI-grant 016.042.310 (2004-2010): “protein imprinted nanoparticles (PINAPLES) as artificial antibodies”, 908 k€.
• Utrecht University grant (High Potentials program) (2004-2009): “Identification of membrane proteins involved in mammalian fertilization using Protein Imprinting in NAnoParticLES (PINAPLES)”, 563 k€.

Memberships:

Member of the working groups “Chemistry of Materials” and “Chemistry of Life” of The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.