Bas van Breukelen joined the Science faculty March 2003. He received his PhD at the Utrecht Medical Centre in 2003 on the subject of the Adenovirus DNA replication and recombination. After his PhD he worked at the department of Biology where he developed a LIMS and pipeline for (statistical) analysis of microarray data.
In 2005 he switched positions to work at the department of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry where he works staff member (UD) in the field of Bioinformatics for proteomics. Since 2014 He is also involved in the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) where he coordinates the Bioinformatics teaching efforts in his role as Bioinformatics Profile Coordinator for the Masters. As of september 2020 Bas is the coordinator of the Masters programme Bioinformatics and BioComplexity (BiBC)