Training
Particulars of doctorate (year obtained, title and supervisor)
1979-1982 Post doc. Leiden Univ (NL), Prof dr. LNM Duysens
1978-1979 Post doc. Un of Bristol (UK), Prof dr. OTG Jones
1973-1978 PhD Biophysics Leiden University (NL), advisor: Prof LNM Duysens, degree was awarded 'cum laude'
1967-1973 Physics/Experimental Physics VU Amsterdam (NL)
Career
Past and present positions
2015-present Part-time Professor of Biophysics, University of Pretoria
2014-present Desmond Tutu Professor, VU University, Amsterdam
2009-present Akademie Hoogleraar (Academy Professor) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007-2009 Professor Blaise Pascal, Ecole National Superieure, Paris, France
2006-2011 Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University, Amsterdam (NL)
1987-present Full Professor of Biophysics, Dept.of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam (NL).
1982-1987 Associate Prof. Dept.of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam (NL).
Memberships
Member of the Faculty of 1000 (F1000)
Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen)
Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Science
Member of the American Biophysical Society
Member of American Chemical Society
Member of the Dutch Physical Society
Member of the Dutch Biophysical Society
Member of the European Biophysical Society
Member of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research
Administrative and management activities
Member of the advisory board of the Netherlands foundation for Fundamental Studies of Matter (FOM)
Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, VU University Amsterdam (2007-2011)
Head of the Section Biophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, VU University Amsterdam (2007-2011)
Member of the Energy Committee of FOM/NWO (SCEF)
Member of the Steering Board of the ESF networks DYNA, Harvest, SB2E
Member of the Steering Board of the Center of Photosynthesis Research
Associate Editor of Photosynthesis Research
Editor Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Elsevier
Member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Chemical Physics Letters, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, PCM Biophysics
Member of ESF Forward Look Committee ‘ FARQUEST’ on Quantum Biology
Member of the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius University
Member of Advisory board EXIST Ethiopia
Member of CIFAR Bio-inspired Solar Energy
Member of KNAW committee on Biosolar Energy
Awards and Honours
2015 Visiting Professor Princeton
2013 Plenary speaker, International Photosynthesis Conference.
2013 ‘Cui Qi’ professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
2013 Member of F1000.
2012-2014 Humboldt Research Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
2011 APS Beller Lecturer, APS Dallas, march 2011.
2011 Gordon Lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada.
2010 Fysica Lecturer, Netherlands Physics Society.
2009 Academy Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2007 Chair Blaise Pascal, Ecole Nationale Supérieure, Paris, Ile de France, France.
2006 Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Science.
2005 Honorary Doctor, University of Lund, Sweden.
2001 Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen).
1978 Thesis Primary and Cytochrome Reactions in Bacterial Photosynthesis 'cum laude', Leiden University.
Invited(accepted) lectures at international conferences and workshops
2016
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis. AEIS/IEAS/ SEMINAR, Paris, France, 10-11.1.2016
Ultrafast Energy Relaxation in Single Light-Harvesting Complexes, PAPETS, London, UK,4-5.2.2016
Quantum Effects in Biology. Waves, Matter and the Universe, Paris, France, 11-12.2.2016
Quantum Coherence and Energy, DOE Washington, USA,3-6.4.2016
Quantum Coherence and Energy, SE2B, Paris, France, 14-15.4.2016
2016. Quantum Coherence and Energy, Bio-inspired Solar Cells CIFAR, Vancouver, Canada,11-15.5.2016
Quantumbiology, Twente University, Netherlands, 19.5.2016
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Excited by Light, Lund, Sweden, 23-26.5.2016
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, QUEBS, Durban, South Africa, 5-9.6.2016
June 17-20, 2016. Order vs Disorder in Photosynthesis, Disordered Systems, Brescia, Italy, 17-20.6.2016
August 3-6, 2016. Coherence in Photosynthesis, Light Harvesting Satellite, Egmond, Netherlands, 3-6.8.2016
August 22-25, 2016. The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, ACS, Philadelphia, USA, 22-15.8.2016
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis. PARC seminar, Washington University, St.Louis, USA, 2-6.10.2016
The Design of Photosynthesis, Enhancing Photosynthesis in Crop Plants, Royal Society Discussion Meeting, London, UK, 9-11.10.2016
2015
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Princeton, USA, 18-22.1.2015
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, FARQUEST, Bruxelles, Belgium,23-25.1.2015
Biophysics of Photosynthesis, KNAW, Amsterdam, Netherlands,27.1.2015
Good Vibrations, Lorentz Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands,24-28.2.2015
Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, QBio conference, Cambridge, UK,18-20.3.2015
Photosynthesis. Duo seminar with Bruno Robert, Paris, France,17.4.2015
The Design of Photosynthesis. SA Conference Photonic Materials, Mabula, South Africa, 3-7.5.2015
Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Groningen University, Netherlands, 29.5.2015
Quantum Effects in Biology, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 10.6.2015
The Thylakoid Membrane, A Dynamic Structure, Utrecht, Netherlands, 12.6.2015
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, QUEBS, Florence, Italy, 27.6-2.7.2015
Light-Harvesting and Photoprotection, Vienna-Discussion Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 27-28.7.2015
September 14-18, 2015. The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Theor. Phys. Chemistry, Catania, Italy, 14-18.9.2015
The Design of Photosynthesis, Lustrum Alchimica, Wageningen, Netherlands, 24.9.2015
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Tutu’s on Tour, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 6.10.2015
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Tutu’s on Tour, UKZN, South Africa, 8.10.2015
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Charge Separation, ELI, Prague, Czech Republic, 19-20.10.2015
Photosynthetic Efficiency, Nanodays, Un. of Jyväskyla, Finland, 21-23.10.2015
Quantum Charge Separation in Plant Photosystem II, Vilius, Lithuania, 18-20.11.2015
Photosynthetic Efficiency, Science for Sustainability, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26-27.11.2015
Role of Low Energy Chlorophylls In Photosynthesis, PacifChem, Hawaii, USA, 15-18.12.2015
2014
Quantum Biology,Freiburg, Germany,28.1-1.2.2014
Phonons and Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, PAPETS, London, UK, 11-13.3.2014
Quantum Effects in Biology, COST, Rehovot, Israel, 24-28.3.2014
History of Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, 49ers, Tel Aviv, Israel, 30.3-2.4.2014
The Design of Photosynthesis, Quantum Biology CECAM, Paris, France, 27-30.5.2014
Photosynthetic Efficiency, Freiburg, Germany, 10-12.6.2014
Quantum Photosynthesis, Biological Physics, Beijing, China, 18-22.6.2014
The Design of Photosynthesis, EBEC, Lisbon, Portugal, 13-17.7.2014
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Regulation, GRC Photosynthesis, Dover, USA, 10-16.8.2014
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, EuChem, Istanbul, Turkey, 31.8-1-9.2014
Photosynthetic Charge Separation, Carnegy, Stanford, USA, 11-13.9.2014
Ultrafast Light-Harvesting, UC Berkeley, USA, 14-16.9.2014
30 years of Light-Harvesting, Bodvice, Czech Republic, 23-25.9.2014
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, WIKO, Berlin, Germany, 28-30.9.2014
Photosynthetic Charge Separation, CIFAR, Toronto, Canada, 8-10.0.2014
Biophysics of Photosynthesis, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 29.10-2.11.2014
Phonons and Photosynthesis, PAPETS, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-12.11.2014
Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Niki Meeting, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands, 14.12.2014
Quantum Coherence and Photosynthetic Charge Separation, QUEBS, Singapore, 30.11-5.12.2014
Future of Quantum Biology, Thula-Thula, South Africa, 14-22.12.2014
2013
Photosynthic Light-Harvesting and Photoprotection, St Mary University, London, UK, 15-17.1.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, International Workshop on Quantum Biology: Facts and Future Prospects, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India, 23-31.1.2013
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis. WIKO, Berlin, Germany, 2-5.2.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Photoprotection, Uppsala, Sweden, 10-13.3.2013
The Light Reactions of Photosynthesis, University of Vienna, Austria, 21-23.3.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, New Trends in Complex Quantum Systems Dynamics, Cartagena, Spain, 8-12.4.2013
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, WIKO, Berlin, Germany, 24-28.5.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, AMPEA Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands, 11-12.6.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, Institute of Physics, Beijing, China, 23-29.6.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, QUEBS, Vienna, Austria, 30.1-4.7.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, ICP2013, Leuven, Belgium, 22-26.7.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, International Photosynthesis Congress, St. Louis, USA, 11-16.8.2013
Order and Disorder in Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, ECSBM, Oxford, UK, 26-30.8.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, ICTPPO, Wuhan, China, 11-15.9.2013
Ultrafast Light-Harvesting , Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, 8-9.10.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Charge Separation, Cambridge University, UK, 23-25.10.2013
Photosynthesis: Environmental Control. Responsive Matrices, Leiden, Netherlands, 28-31.10.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, CUI symposium, Hamburg, Germany, 13-14.11.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, Annual Congress of the Swiss Academy of Natural Science, Winterthur, Switzerland, 21-23.10.2013
Photosynthesis: Quantum Design of a Light Trap. QI-school, Durban, South Africa, 24-30.11.2013
Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Institute of Physics, Beijing, China, 2-5.12.2013
2012
The design of photosynthesis, Lenk, Switzerland, 8-11.1.2012
Lessons from nature for solar light harvesting, Ulm, Germany, 15-17.1.2012
Summerschool on Quantum Biology: The design of Photosynthesis, Durban, South-Africa, 24-30.1.2012
Lessons from Nature for Solar Light Harvesting, Twente, The Netherlands, 31.1.2012
Quantum nature of charge separation in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centres,
Central European Conference on Photochemistry, Athens, Greece, 3-5.2.2012
Lessons from Nature for Solar Light Harvesting, AMPEA Kick-off, Saclay, France, 7-9.3.2012
How Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Proteins Switch, Single Molecules: Theory meets Single Molecules, San Diego, USA, 25-29.3.2012
Lessons from Nature for Solar Light Harvesting, Heraeus-seminar, Bad Honnef, 2-3.4.2012
The Design of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting, Basel, Switzerland, 19-21.4.2012
Quantum Nature of Photosynthesis, London, UK, 4-6.5.2012
How Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Proteins Switch, QUEBS, Berkeley, USA, 3-6.6.2012
Photophysics of the Orange Carotenoid Protein, OCP workshop, Paris, France, 14-15.6,2012
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, EGIDE workshop, Courchamps, France, 18-21.6.2012
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, EXCON2012, Groningen, Netherlands, 2-5.7.2012
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, Lens, Switzerland, 4-6.10.2012
How Light Harvesting is Optimized, Glasgow, UK, 30-31.10.2012
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, Freiburg, Germany, 11-15.11.2-12
2011
Univ. Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 18.1.2011
Gordon Lecturer, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 29.1.-3.2.2011
Farquest, AIT, Vienna, Austria, 10.3.2011
APS, Dallas, 21.-25.3.2011
LHP, Kloster Banz, Germany, 10.-14.4.2011
Quantum-Coherent Energy Transfer: implications for biology and new energy technologies, Chicheley, UK, 26.-27.4.2011
Förster 100, Göttingen, Germany, 27.-30.4.2011
Ortvay lecture, Budapest, Hungary, 25.-26.5.2011
Univ. Hamburg/CFEL, Hamburg, Germany, 7.6.2011
ESP2011, Santa Fe, USA, 19.-23.6.2011
ERPOS, Vilnius, Lithuania, 11.-14.7.2011
ICTPPO, Berlin, Germany, 25.-28.7.2011
QUEBS2011, Ulm, Germany, 31.7.-3.8.2011
EBSA, Budapest, Hungary, 23.-27.8.2011
EBSA Biophysics Course on Solar Energy - Biological and Biomimetic Solutions, Szeged, Hungary, 27.-31.8.2011
COMET2011, Oxford, UK, 11.-15.9.2011
Harvest Midterm, Cambridge, UK, 15.-16.9.2011
Photosensitive Processes, Capri, Italy, 19.-23.9.2011
Master Lecture: Quantum Biology, Berlin, Germany, 20.10.2011
Lessons from nature for light harvesting, Beijing, China, 31.1.2011
Excitation energy transfer and non-photochemical quenching in photosystem II, Chengdu, China, 3.11.2011
Quantum biology and photosynthesis, Vienna, Austria, 9-11.12.2011
2010
Lorentz Workshop on the artificial leaf, Leiden, NL, 1.-5.2.2010
SFB Berlin, Germany, 12.-16.3.2010
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, 12.-20.4.2010
"Fysica-lezing", Utrecht, NL, 23.4.2010
XELAFOT, Santiago, Chile, 15.-24.5.2010
TBSC, Queen Mary, London, UK, 1.-2.6.2010
DYNA, Lausanne, Switzerland, 6.-9.6.2010
QUEBS 2010, Harvard, Boston, USA, 17.-20.6.2010
ENS, Paris, France, 5.-8.7.2010
IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Ferrara, Italy, 11.-14.7.2010
Symposium 60th birthday Graham Fleming, Berkeley, USA, 15.-18.7.2010
Harvest, Venice, Italy, 22.-23.9.2010
Solvay conference: quantum effects in chemistry and biology, Bruxelles, Belgium, 12.-16.10.2010
Non-trivial Quantum effects Biomolecular systems, Capri, Italy, 17.-20.10.2010
Invited colloquium, Berlin, Germany, 12.-13.11.2010
CEA Saclay, Saclay, France 15.12.2010
2009
Univ. of Lund, Lund, Sweden, 24.-28.1.2009
Univ. of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, 29.-30.1.2009
CEA, Saclay, France, 2.-3.3.2009
Intro 2 workshop on photoprotection and non-photochemical quenching, Parsberg, Germany, 6.-12.3.2009
Light-harvesting processes (LHP), Kloster Banz, Germany, 12.-14.3.2009
Solarbiofuels from micro-organisms, Leiden, NL, 27.3.-1.4.2009
Max-Planck-Institute, Colloquium 60th birthday of Alfred Holzwarth, Mülheim, Germany, 24.-25.4.2009
JPU 2009, Bordeaux, France, 27.-30.4.2009
9th HFSP awardees meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 5.6.2009
Gordon conference on Photosynthesis, Boston, USA, 27.6.-3.7.2009
FEBS, Prague, Czech Republic, 4.-8.7.2009
ECSBM, Palermo, Italy, 28.8.-1.9.2009
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW symposium, Utrecht, NL, 15.9.2009
Capetown University, Capetown, Ghana, 3.-8.10.2009
NISB, Budapest, Hungary, 14.-18.10.2009
Molecular Science Solar Fuel, Stockholm, Sweden, 1.-5.11.2009
Start-up EU-network Harvest, Naantali, Finland, 29.11.-2.12.2009
2008
Symposium Douwe Wiersma: Echoes in the future, Groningen, NL, 7.-8.1.2008
KNAW workshop clean solar fuels, Amsterdam, NL, 31.1-1.2.2008
American Biophysical Society, Long beach, California, USA, 2.-6.2.2008
Intro 2 Final meeting, Lanzarote, Spain, 7.-11.2.2008
ESF Research Conference on Molecular Bioenergetics of Cyanobacteria, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 29.3.-3.4.2008
Lecture Lithuanian Academy of Science, Vilnius, Lithuania, 30.4.-3.5.2008
Lecture Blaise Pascal, ENS, Paris, France, 15.-16.5.2008
Univ. of Lund, Laserlab colloquium, Lund, Sweden, 22.-23.5.2008
UC Irvine, San Francisco, USA, 24. -28.5.2008
Light Energy Conversion in Photosynthesis, Pushchino, Russia, 7.-11.6.2008
Molecular Self-Organization in Micro-, Nano, and Macro Dimensions: From Molecules to Water, to Nanoparticles, DNA and Proteins, Kiev, Ukraine, 8- 10.6.2008
Gordon Research Conference Photosynthesis, Boston, USA, 20.–29.6.2008
Workshop novel methods in exploring carotenoid excited state dynamics, Novi Hrad, Czech Republic, 21. -25.9.2008
Arizona State Univ, Tempe, USA, 12.-20.11.2008
UC Davis, Davis, USA, 12.-20.11.2008
Symposium energy harvesting materials, Boston, USA, 29.11.-2.12.2008
2007
Photoradchem-2007, Kottayam, India, 8/2-11/2
ESF workshop Clean Solar Fuels, Parsberg, FRG, 11/3-14/3
Light-Harvesting Processes, Kloster Banz, FRG, 21/3-24/3
Novartis Photosynthesis Discussion, London, UK, 25/4
Intro2 workshop, Röjtökmuzsaj, Hungary, 13/5-16/5
Advanced Laser Methods, Laskemo Graduate Course, Jyväskylä, Finland, 30/5-1/6
Workshop on Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Systems, Drymen, UK, 18/7-21/7
Femto8, Oxford, UK, 22/7-27/7
International Symposium of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 498 "Protein-Cofactor Interactions in Biological Proceses, Berlin, FRG, 16/9-19/9 Excited States Processes in Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials, Santa Fe, USA, 1/10-4/10
'Molecular Biology of Complex Functions in Botanical Systems' SFB, Velen, FRG, 11/11-12/11
7th ICTPPO, Kyoto, Japan, 9/12-14/12
2nd Int. workshop on Photosynthetic Antennae and Coherent Phenomena, Osaka, Japan, 14/12-16/12
Intro2, Lanzarote, Spain, 7/2-11/2
2006
Intro2/PS1 workshop, Fontrevaud, France, 2/4-7/4
Eur. Solar Energy Brainstorm, Regensburg, FRG, 10/5-13/5
EU workshop "Teaching Biophysics: Curricula, Methods, Problems",Vilnius, Lithuania, June 8/6-10/6
2006GRC Photosynthesis, Bryant College, Rhode Island, USA, 2/7-6/7
14th EBEC, Moscow, 22/7-27/7
ECOF 10, Riga, Latvia, 21/8-24/8
GRC Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Les Diablettes, Switzerland, 10/9-15/9
Intro2/NPQ workshop, Parsberg, FRG, 22/9-24/9
GRC Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels, Ventura, USA, 21/1-26/1
2005
Physics-Chemistry Colloquium, UC Irvine, 17/2
Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization, DOE, Washington, 18/4-21/4
Simula05, Dresden, FRG, 6/6-11/6
Intro2 Int. workshop, Vindeln/Umea, Sweden, 12/6-16/6
30th FEBS Congress - 9th IUBMB Conference Budapest, Hungary 2/7-7/7
Int Quantum El. Conf, Tokyo, Japan, 11/7-15/7
7th Femtochemistry, Washington, USA, 17/7-22/7
ICL, Beijing, China, 25/7-29/7
Excited States Processes in Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials, Santa Fe, USA, 8/8-11/8
ACS National meeting, Washington, USA, 28/8-1/9
ESP Aix-les-Bains, France, 3/9-7/9
ECSBM, Aschaffenburg, FRG, 3/9-8/9
6th ICTPPO, Luzern, 11/9-16/9
Biological Physics, Vilnius, Lithuania, 8/10
Charge Separation in Photosystem II, Loosdrecht, NL, 28/10-30/10
Pacifichem 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15/12-20/12
SFB Analysis and control of ultrafast photoinduced reactions, Berlin, FRG, 23/3-26/3
2004
Minerva-Gentner Symposium, Closter Banz, FRG, 21/3-25/3
Femtochemistry and Femtobiology, Pecs, Hungary, 25/3-28/3
SPIE, Strasbourg, France, 26/4-30/4
Intro2 Start-up meeting, Trento, Italy, 13/5-16/5
Lund Laser Center user meeting, Lund, Sweden, 25/5
GRC Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, South Hadley, USA, 25/7-30/7
PS2004, Light-Harvesting workshop, St. Adele, Canada, 26/8-29/8
13th Int Congr. Photosynthesis, Montreal, Canada, 29/8-3/9
Excitons in Conjugates Polymers, Un of Mons, Mons, Belgium, 26/11
4th Generation Light Source, Daresbury, UK, 7/2-8/2
2003
Photosynthesis, Russian Ac. Sci. Moscow, Russia, 21/3-27/3
Nanoscale Optics, Netherlands Royal Academy Colloquium, Amsterdam, NL, 9/4-12/4
Tulip Research School, Noordwijk, NL, 4/4-14/4
Photoactive Molecules in the Gas Phase, Aarhus, Denmark, 2/6-3/6
Femtochemistry VI, Paris, France, 6/7-10/7
Fall ACS meeting, Frontiers in Biophysics, New York, USA, 7/9-11/9
MIT Physics of Light-Harvesting, Boston, USA, 17/9
Photosystem 2, Trois Rivieres, Canada, 19/9
ICTPPO, Passau, FRG, 12/9-17/9
Photosystem 1 Discussion meeting, Mülheim, FRG, 19/11-21/11
Molecule-to-Cell Kick-off meeting, Utrecht, NL, 27/2
2002
Novartis Photosynthesis Discussion, London, UK 15/3
Photovoltaics, Petten, NL, 21/3-22/3
ESF workshop Photobiology, Finland, 25/4-29/4
XIIIth Ultrafast Phenomena, Vancouver, Canada, 12/5-17/5
GRC Photosynthesis, Bristol, RI, USA, 16/6-21/6
LALS 2002, Vilnius, Lithuania, 7/7-11/7
EMBO workshop Molecular Genetics and Biophysical Aspects of Photosynthesis Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 26/1-29/1
2001
Workshop Optodynamics in Biological Systems, Marburg, FRg, 20/3-21/3
ICTPPO, Rhode Island, USA, 25/7-30/7
Photosynthetic Light Harvesting, Surfer's Paradise, Australia, 14/8-17/8
Photodynamics, Havana, Cuba, 10/2-16/2
2000
GRC Molecular Electronic Spectroscopy, Colby Sawyer Coll, New London, NH, USA 30/7-4/8
GRC Donor-Acceptor Complexes, Newport, RI, USA 13/8-18/8
Nato Adv. Res. Workshop, Szeged, Hungary 19/9-22/9
ESF-Ultra, Lisbon, Portugal, 19/10-25/10
Biophysics Symposium Delft Univ. NL, 21/11
Photoreceptor Proteins, Netherlands Royal Academy Colloquium, Amsterdam, NL, 23/11-25/11
SFB-Photosynthesis, Berlin, FRG, 11/12-19/12
Warsaw-Amsterdam meeting, Warsaw, Poland, 17/1-19/1
1999
European Research Conference: Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors in Photosynthetic Organisms, Castelvecchio di Pascoli, Italy, 3/9-8/9
XIIIth International Biophysics Congress, Delhi, India, 19/9-24/9
ESF Workshop on Interactions Between Chlorophylls and Carotenoids in Photosynthesis, Antalya, Turkey, 11/10-15/10
VIII Int. Conf. on Hopping Transport and Related Phenomena. Murcia, Spain, 7/9-10/9
XIth UPS, Taipei, Taiwan, 25/10-29/10
ESF-symposium "Biophysics of Photosynthesis", Naatali, Finland, 16/12-19/12
GRC Photosynthesis Kimball Ac, Meriden, NH, USA 13/6-18/6
1998
APS, March meeting, Los Angeles, USA, 16/3-20/3/br> EBEC, Göteborg, Sweden, 27/6-2/7/br> GRC Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Newport, RI, USA, 26/7-31/7
XIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Budapest, Hungary, 17/8-22/8
Biological Physics Symposium, Santa FE, NM, USA, 20/9-24/9
Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Wichita, USA, 4/11-6/11
Ultrafast Spectroscopy Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, 16/12-18/12
Femtochemistry, Leuven, Belgium, 12/7-16/7
PhD-students
Pavel Maly,
Alonso Acuno Sanchez, Expanding society’s toolbox to harvest solar energy: creating multiscale computational models to optimize oxygenic photosynthesis,
Ludzyna Wlodarczyk,
Kinga Sznee, Between order and disorder: the supramolecular organization of photosynthetic membrane.
Vincent Friebe. Hacking Photosynthesis, October 2016
Janneke Ravensbergen. Photophysics of Solar Fuel Materials. November 2, 2015
Alessandro Marin. Energy transport pathways in photosynthetic antennas. April 18, 2012
Michael Gruber. From picoseconds to seconds: Fluorescence dynamics of single light-harvesting complexes. January 2017
Joris Snellenburg. From proteins to the thylakoid membrane: modelling the dynamics of excitation in oxygenic photosynthesis. December 2016
Marco Ferretti. Ultrafast Energy Processes in Photosynthetic Complexes, November 2016
Miroslav Kloz. Carotenoids and Life. Femtoseconds and Light. Transient absorption and femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy of free and bound carotenoids. February 11, 2013
Andreas Stahl. Structure-function relationship in photosynthetic and photo-active proteins. A mid-Infrared investigation with femtosecond time resolution, September 30 2011.
Tjaart P.J. Krueger. The Functional Flexibility of Single Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes. June 30, 2011
Natalia.P.Pawlowicz. Reaction centers studied with femtosecond visible-pump mid-infrared probe spectroscopy. March-april 2009.
Cosimo. Bonetti. Ultrafast Spectroscopy on Photoactive Proteins. February/march 2009.
Maxime.T. Alexandre. Photophysics of Photoactive Proteins. January/February 2009.
Luuk J.G.W. van Wilderen. Ultrafast protein dynamics revealed by infrared spectroscopy. June 27, 2007.
Chantal van der Weij - de Wit. Excitation energy transfer in large, intact photosynthetic systems. June 29,2007.
Rudi Berrera. The role of carotenoids in natural and artificial photosynthesis. November 26, 2007.
Danielis Rutkauskas. The dynamic organization of the bacterial photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes: fluorescence microspectroscopy. January 19, 2006.
Magdalena Gauden. Mechanism of light activation in blue-light photoreceptors. September 18, 2006.
Mikas Vengris. Biological photoreactions explored by multi-pulse ultrafast spectroscopy. February 1, 2005.
Miguel Palacios. Excitonic interactions and energy transfer in the light-harvesting complex II of plants. February 24, 2005.
Elena G. Andrizhiyevskaya. Energy transfer and trapping in photosynthetic complexes with variable antenna size. March 1, 2005.
Sofia Georgakopoulou. Circular dichroism and ring structures. March 17, 2005.
Dmitrij Frolov. B-branch electron transfer in bacterial reaction centers. November 11, 2005.
E.Papagiannakis. Shedding light on the dark states of carotenoids. June 3, 2004.
Jante M. Salverda. Interacting pigments in light-harvesting complexes studied with nonlinear spectroscopy. January 17, 2003.
Anjali Pandit. Folding and oligomerization of membrane proteins. Spectroscopic studies of bee-venom peptide and a bacterial light-harvesting complex. February 4, 2003.
Frank L. de Weerd. A spectroscopic investigation of chlorophylls and ?-carotenes in photosystems I and II. April 15, 2003.
Olaf F.A. Larsen. Ultrafast dynamics of DNA and a tryptophan-containing peptide. October 3, 2002.
Bas Gobets. The life and times of Photosystem I. Excitation energy transfer and trapping unravelled. October 15, 2002.
Markus Wendling. Spectroscopy on bacterial photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes. An in vitro and in silico study. November 11, 2002.
Raoul. N. Frese. Symmetry in photosynthesis and the role of charge-transfer states in reaction centers and light-harvesting complexes. November 20, 2002.
Claudiu C. Gradinaru. Ultrafast dynamics of chlorophylls and carotenoids in antenna complexes from plants and bacteria. Linking energy transfer kinetics to structural properties. March 1, 2001
Stefania S. Lampoura. Dynamics in biological samples and J-aggregates explored by linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy. October 18, 2001.
Marion E. van Brederode. New pathways for ultrafast electron transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. July 1, 1999.
Foske J. Kleima. Light harvesting and excitation energy transfer in oxygenic photosynthesis. October 21, 1999.
Corline Koolhaas. The relation between the structure and the spectroscopy of a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex. January 27, 1999.
René Monshouwer. The nature and dynamics of excitations in photosynthetic light-harvesting. March 30, 1998.
Erwin J.G. Peterman. Chlorophylls and carotenoids in oxygenic photosynthesis. Light absorption, excitation transfer, fluorescence, and triplet quenching. February 5, 1998.
Camiel Eyckelhoff. The photosystem 2 reaction center. Biochemical and biophysical aspects of photosynthesis in green plants. March 13, 1997.
Marie-Louise Groot. Primary processes in the reaction center of Photosystem II. Transfer, trapping and thermodynamics. January 22, 1997.
Lucas M.P. Beekman. A structural and functional characterization study of the bacterial photosynthetic apparatus: mutants, charge separation and electric field effects. January 9, 1997.
Matthieu Visser. Energy- and electron transfer in photosynthesis studied by sub-picosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. June 11, 1996.
Oscar Somsen. Excitonic interaction in photosynthesis. Migration and spectroscopy. June, 1995.
Martin Kooyman. Type-II intermediate filament proteins: Structure, assembly and interaction with nucleic acids. June, 1995.
Bart van Haeringen. Transient electric birefringence studies on complex protein systems. May, 1994.
Stefan L. S. Kwa. Plant solar cells under illumination: A spectroscopic study of photosystem II. November, 1993.
Frank van Mourik. Spectral inhomogeneity of the bacterial light-harvesting antennae: Causes and consequences. Maart, 1993
Theo A. Roelofs. Excited state dynamics in Photosysteem II: measuring and modelling picosecond fluorescence kinetics. December, 1991.
Geurt Deinum. Excitation migration in photosynthetic antenna systems. September, 1991.
Maxim E. Kuil. Dynamical and structural aspects of DNA-protein interactions. December, 1989.
Herbert van Amerongen. DNA-protein complexes studied with polarized light spectroscopy. June, 1989.
Leonardus P.A.van Houte. An optical-spectroscopic study on the conformation of the covalent complex of DNA and 2-aminofluorene. November, 1988.
Marcel Vos. Pigment organization and energy transfer in photosynthetic antenna systems. Studies by means of excitation annihilation. June, 1987.
Hendrik N. van der Wal. The function of cytochromes in photosynthetic electron transport of purple bacteria. January, 1987.
Martin A. Scheerhagen. The structure of nucleic acids in the complex with the helix destabilizing protein of bacteriophage T4. April, 1986.
Postdoctoral fellows
Juan Manuel Artes Vivancos 1-10-2015
Magdalena Marszalek 1-09-2015
Marco Ferretti 14-10-2015
Elisabet Romero 01-10-2010 – 01-06-2016
Sheela Ramanan 3-10-2011- 1-09-2014
Bart van Oort 1-12-2008
Maxime Alexandre 15-10-2009 - 1-3-2012
Natalia Pawlowicz 1-04-2008 - 15-08-2010
Tjaart Krueger 1-10-2010 - 1-03-2013
Md Wahadoszamen 15-12-2009 – 1-02-2012
Luchao Du 1-09-2013 – 1-09-2014
Michal Gwizdala 01-12-2012 – 1-11-2015
Fei Ma 1-03-2013 – 15-03-2016
Chris Duffy (GB, 2008-2009) Postdoctoral fellow, VU Universit,y Amsterdam, NL
Cristian Ilioaia (Rum., 2007-present) Postdoctoral fellow, VU University, Amsterdam, NL
Rudi Berera (It., 2007-2008). Postdoctoral fellow (Rubicon), CEA-CNRS, Saclay, France.
Marie-Angela Di Donata (It. 2005-present). Postdoctoral fellow, VU University, Amsterdam, NL
Alexander Doust (GB, 2005-2007) Scientist DSM
Krzysztof Gibasiewicz (PL, 2004-2005)Associate Professor of Biophysics, Adam Mickiewicz Un, Poznan, Poland
Janne Ihalainen (Finn. 2003-2006). Professor of NanoBiophysics, Un. Of Jyväskylä, Finland
Elena Andrizhiyevskaya (BR, 2005-2006) Scientist, ASML, NL
Manolis Papagiannakis (Gr., 2005-2007)Assistant Professor, Un. Of Crete, Greece
John T.M. Kennis (NL, 2002-2005). Assistant Professor of Biophysics, VU University, Amsterdam, NL
C.T. Aravindakumar (2003) Professor of Physical Chemistry, Un. of Kottayam, India
Raoul. N. Frese (NL, 2004) Postdoctoral fellow, Un.of Leiden, NL
Jennifer L. Herek (USA, 2002). Professor of Optical Sciences, Twente University, NL
Marie-Louise Groot (NL, 2001-2004). Professor of Biophysics, VU University, Amsterdam, NL
Andy Pascal (GB, 2002). Scientist, CNRS, Saclay, France
Lavanya Premvardhan (USA, 2001-2004). Scientist, CNRS, Paris, France
Delmar S.Larsen (USA, 2002-2004). Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry, UC Davis, USA
Virgis Barzda (Lith, 1997-1990 Associate Professor of Biophysics, Un. Of Toronto, Canada
Vladimir Novoderezhkin (Russ.,1998-1999) Professor of Physics, Dept of Physics, Moscow State University, Russia
Brent Krueger (USA) (1999). Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, USA
Greg Scholes (Audtralian) (1997). Professor of Physical Chemistry, Un of Toronto, Canada
Tonu Pullerits (Estonian) (1995-1996). Associate.Professor of Chemical Physics, Un of Lund, Sweden
Frank van Mourik (1994-1998). Professor of Physical Chemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Michael Bloemendal (NL, 1992-1995) Professor of Chemistry, Hebrew Un., Jerusalem, Israel.
Herbert van Amerongen (NL, 1988-1989). Professor of Biophysics, Wageningen University, NL.
Kees J. Visscher (NL, 1987-1988). Clinical Physicist, NL
William R. Newell (GB, 1988-1990). Computer Scientist, Birmingham, UKen om te bewerken.
Particulars of doctorate (year obtained, title and supervisor)
1979-1982 Post doc. Leiden Univ (NL), Prof dr. LNM Duysens
1978-1979 Post doc. Un of Bristol (UK), Prof dr. OTG Jones
1973-1978 PhD Biophysics Leiden University (NL), advisor: Prof LNM Duysens, degree was awarded 'cum laude'
1967-1973 Physics/Experimental Physics VU Amsterdam (NL)
Career
Past and present positions
2015-present Part-time Professor of Biophysics, University of Pretoria
2014-present Desmond Tutu Professor, VU University, Amsterdam
2009-present Akademie Hoogleraar (Academy Professor) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007-2009 Professor Blaise Pascal, Ecole National Superieure, Paris, France
2006-2011 Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University, Amsterdam (NL)
1987-present Full Professor of Biophysics, Dept.of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam (NL).
1982-1987 Associate Prof. Dept.of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University, Amsterdam (NL).
Memberships
Member of the Faculty of 1000 (F1000)
Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen)
Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Science
Member of the American Biophysical Society
Member of American Chemical Society
Member of the Dutch Physical Society
Member of the Dutch Biophysical Society
Member of the European Biophysical Society
Member of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research
Administrative and management activities
Member of the advisory board of the Netherlands foundation for Fundamental Studies of Matter (FOM)
Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, VU University Amsterdam (2007-2011)
Head of the Section Biophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, VU University Amsterdam (2007-2011)
Member of the Energy Committee of FOM/NWO (SCEF)
Member of the Steering Board of the ESF networks DYNA, Harvest, SB2E
Member of the Steering Board of the Center of Photosynthesis Research
Associate Editor of Photosynthesis Research
Editor Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Elsevier
Member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Chemical Physics Letters, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, PCM Biophysics
Member of ESF Forward Look Committee ‘ FARQUEST’ on Quantum Biology
Member of the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius University
Member of Advisory board EXIST Ethiopia
Member of CIFAR Bio-inspired Solar Energy
Member of KNAW committee on Biosolar Energy
Awards and Honours
2015 Visiting Professor Princeton
2013 Plenary speaker, International Photosynthesis Conference.
2013 ‘Cui Qi’ professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
2013 Member of F1000.
2012-2014 Humboldt Research Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
2011 APS Beller Lecturer, APS Dallas, march 2011.
2011 Gordon Lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada.
2010 Fysica Lecturer, Netherlands Physics Society.
2009 Academy Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2007 Chair Blaise Pascal, Ecole Nationale Supérieure, Paris, Ile de France, France.
2006 Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Science.
2005 Honorary Doctor, University of Lund, Sweden.
2001 Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen).
1978 Thesis Primary and Cytochrome Reactions in Bacterial Photosynthesis 'cum laude', Leiden University.
Invited(accepted) lectures at international conferences and workshops
2016
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis. AEIS/IEAS/ SEMINAR, Paris, France, 10-11.1.2016
Ultrafast Energy Relaxation in Single Light-Harvesting Complexes, PAPETS, London, UK,4-5.2.2016
Quantum Effects in Biology. Waves, Matter and the Universe, Paris, France, 11-12.2.2016
Quantum Coherence and Energy, DOE Washington, USA,3-6.4.2016
Quantum Coherence and Energy, SE2B, Paris, France, 14-15.4.2016
2016. Quantum Coherence and Energy, Bio-inspired Solar Cells CIFAR, Vancouver, Canada,11-15.5.2016
Quantumbiology, Twente University, Netherlands, 19.5.2016
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Excited by Light, Lund, Sweden, 23-26.5.2016
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, QUEBS, Durban, South Africa, 5-9.6.2016
June 17-20, 2016. Order vs Disorder in Photosynthesis, Disordered Systems, Brescia, Italy, 17-20.6.2016
August 3-6, 2016. Coherence in Photosynthesis, Light Harvesting Satellite, Egmond, Netherlands, 3-6.8.2016
August 22-25, 2016. The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, ACS, Philadelphia, USA, 22-15.8.2016
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis. PARC seminar, Washington University, St.Louis, USA, 2-6.10.2016
The Design of Photosynthesis, Enhancing Photosynthesis in Crop Plants, Royal Society Discussion Meeting, London, UK, 9-11.10.2016
2015
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Princeton, USA, 18-22.1.2015
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, FARQUEST, Bruxelles, Belgium,23-25.1.2015
Biophysics of Photosynthesis, KNAW, Amsterdam, Netherlands,27.1.2015
Good Vibrations, Lorentz Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands,24-28.2.2015
Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, QBio conference, Cambridge, UK,18-20.3.2015
Photosynthesis. Duo seminar with Bruno Robert, Paris, France,17.4.2015
The Design of Photosynthesis. SA Conference Photonic Materials, Mabula, South Africa, 3-7.5.2015
Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Groningen University, Netherlands, 29.5.2015
Quantum Effects in Biology, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 10.6.2015
The Thylakoid Membrane, A Dynamic Structure, Utrecht, Netherlands, 12.6.2015
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, QUEBS, Florence, Italy, 27.6-2.7.2015
Light-Harvesting and Photoprotection, Vienna-Discussion Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 27-28.7.2015
September 14-18, 2015. The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Theor. Phys. Chemistry, Catania, Italy, 14-18.9.2015
The Design of Photosynthesis, Lustrum Alchimica, Wageningen, Netherlands, 24.9.2015
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Tutu’s on Tour, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 6.10.2015
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Tutu’s on Tour, UKZN, South Africa, 8.10.2015
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Charge Separation, ELI, Prague, Czech Republic, 19-20.10.2015
Photosynthetic Efficiency, Nanodays, Un. of Jyväskyla, Finland, 21-23.10.2015
Quantum Charge Separation in Plant Photosystem II, Vilius, Lithuania, 18-20.11.2015
Photosynthetic Efficiency, Science for Sustainability, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26-27.11.2015
Role of Low Energy Chlorophylls In Photosynthesis, PacifChem, Hawaii, USA, 15-18.12.2015
2014
Quantum Biology,Freiburg, Germany,28.1-1.2.2014
Phonons and Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, PAPETS, London, UK, 11-13.3.2014
Quantum Effects in Biology, COST, Rehovot, Israel, 24-28.3.2014
History of Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, 49ers, Tel Aviv, Israel, 30.3-2.4.2014
The Design of Photosynthesis, Quantum Biology CECAM, Paris, France, 27-30.5.2014
Photosynthetic Efficiency, Freiburg, Germany, 10-12.6.2014
Quantum Photosynthesis, Biological Physics, Beijing, China, 18-22.6.2014
The Design of Photosynthesis, EBEC, Lisbon, Portugal, 13-17.7.2014
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Regulation, GRC Photosynthesis, Dover, USA, 10-16.8.2014
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, EuChem, Istanbul, Turkey, 31.8-1-9.2014
Photosynthetic Charge Separation, Carnegy, Stanford, USA, 11-13.9.2014
Ultrafast Light-Harvesting, UC Berkeley, USA, 14-16.9.2014
30 years of Light-Harvesting, Bodvice, Czech Republic, 23-25.9.2014
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, WIKO, Berlin, Germany, 28-30.9.2014
Photosynthetic Charge Separation, CIFAR, Toronto, Canada, 8-10.0.2014
Biophysics of Photosynthesis, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 29.10-2.11.2014
Phonons and Photosynthesis, PAPETS, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-12.11.2014
Quantum Design of Photosynthesis, Niki Meeting, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands, 14.12.2014
Quantum Coherence and Photosynthetic Charge Separation, QUEBS, Singapore, 30.11-5.12.2014
Future of Quantum Biology, Thula-Thula, South Africa, 14-22.12.2014
2013
Photosynthic Light-Harvesting and Photoprotection, St Mary University, London, UK, 15-17.1.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, International Workshop on Quantum Biology: Facts and Future Prospects, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India, 23-31.1.2013
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis. WIKO, Berlin, Germany, 2-5.2.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Photoprotection, Uppsala, Sweden, 10-13.3.2013
The Light Reactions of Photosynthesis, University of Vienna, Austria, 21-23.3.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, New Trends in Complex Quantum Systems Dynamics, Cartagena, Spain, 8-12.4.2013
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, WIKO, Berlin, Germany, 24-28.5.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, AMPEA Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands, 11-12.6.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, Institute of Physics, Beijing, China, 23-29.6.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, QUEBS, Vienna, Austria, 30.1-4.7.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, ICP2013, Leuven, Belgium, 22-26.7.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, International Photosynthesis Congress, St. Louis, USA, 11-16.8.2013
Order and Disorder in Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, ECSBM, Oxford, UK, 26-30.8.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, ICTPPO, Wuhan, China, 11-15.9.2013
Ultrafast Light-Harvesting , Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, 8-9.10.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting and Charge Separation, Cambridge University, UK, 23-25.10.2013
Photosynthesis: Environmental Control. Responsive Matrices, Leiden, Netherlands, 28-31.10.2013
Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting, CUI symposium, Hamburg, Germany, 13-14.11.2013
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, Annual Congress of the Swiss Academy of Natural Science, Winterthur, Switzerland, 21-23.10.2013
Photosynthesis: Quantum Design of a Light Trap. QI-school, Durban, South Africa, 24-30.11.2013
Biophysics of Photosynthesis, Institute of Physics, Beijing, China, 2-5.12.2013
2012
The design of photosynthesis, Lenk, Switzerland, 8-11.1.2012
Lessons from nature for solar light harvesting, Ulm, Germany, 15-17.1.2012
Summerschool on Quantum Biology: The design of Photosynthesis, Durban, South-Africa, 24-30.1.2012
Lessons from Nature for Solar Light Harvesting, Twente, The Netherlands, 31.1.2012
Quantum nature of charge separation in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centres,
Central European Conference on Photochemistry, Athens, Greece, 3-5.2.2012
Lessons from Nature for Solar Light Harvesting, AMPEA Kick-off, Saclay, France, 7-9.3.2012
How Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Proteins Switch, Single Molecules: Theory meets Single Molecules, San Diego, USA, 25-29.3.2012
Lessons from Nature for Solar Light Harvesting, Heraeus-seminar, Bad Honnef, 2-3.4.2012
The Design of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting, Basel, Switzerland, 19-21.4.2012
Quantum Nature of Photosynthesis, London, UK, 4-6.5.2012
How Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Proteins Switch, QUEBS, Berkeley, USA, 3-6.6.2012
Photophysics of the Orange Carotenoid Protein, OCP workshop, Paris, France, 14-15.6,2012
Quantum Effects in Photosynthesis, EGIDE workshop, Courchamps, France, 18-21.6.2012
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, EXCON2012, Groningen, Netherlands, 2-5.7.2012
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, Lens, Switzerland, 4-6.10.2012
How Light Harvesting is Optimized, Glasgow, UK, 30-31.10.2012
Quantum Design of a Light Trap, Freiburg, Germany, 11-15.11.2-12
2011
Univ. Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 18.1.2011
Gordon Lecturer, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 29.1.-3.2.2011
Farquest, AIT, Vienna, Austria, 10.3.2011
APS, Dallas, 21.-25.3.2011
LHP, Kloster Banz, Germany, 10.-14.4.2011
Quantum-Coherent Energy Transfer: implications for biology and new energy technologies, Chicheley, UK, 26.-27.4.2011
Förster 100, Göttingen, Germany, 27.-30.4.2011
Ortvay lecture, Budapest, Hungary, 25.-26.5.2011
Univ. Hamburg/CFEL, Hamburg, Germany, 7.6.2011
ESP2011, Santa Fe, USA, 19.-23.6.2011
ERPOS, Vilnius, Lithuania, 11.-14.7.2011
ICTPPO, Berlin, Germany, 25.-28.7.2011
QUEBS2011, Ulm, Germany, 31.7.-3.8.2011
EBSA, Budapest, Hungary, 23.-27.8.2011
EBSA Biophysics Course on Solar Energy - Biological and Biomimetic Solutions, Szeged, Hungary, 27.-31.8.2011
COMET2011, Oxford, UK, 11.-15.9.2011
Harvest Midterm, Cambridge, UK, 15.-16.9.2011
Photosensitive Processes, Capri, Italy, 19.-23.9.2011
Master Lecture: Quantum Biology, Berlin, Germany, 20.10.2011
Lessons from nature for light harvesting, Beijing, China, 31.1.2011
Excitation energy transfer and non-photochemical quenching in photosystem II, Chengdu, China, 3.11.2011
Quantum biology and photosynthesis, Vienna, Austria, 9-11.12.2011
2010
Lorentz Workshop on the artificial leaf, Leiden, NL, 1.-5.2.2010
SFB Berlin, Germany, 12.-16.3.2010
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, 12.-20.4.2010
"Fysica-lezing", Utrecht, NL, 23.4.2010
XELAFOT, Santiago, Chile, 15.-24.5.2010
TBSC, Queen Mary, London, UK, 1.-2.6.2010
DYNA, Lausanne, Switzerland, 6.-9.6.2010
QUEBS 2010, Harvard, Boston, USA, 17.-20.6.2010
ENS, Paris, France, 5.-8.7.2010
IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Ferrara, Italy, 11.-14.7.2010
Symposium 60th birthday Graham Fleming, Berkeley, USA, 15.-18.7.2010
Harvest, Venice, Italy, 22.-23.9.2010
Solvay conference: quantum effects in chemistry and biology, Bruxelles, Belgium, 12.-16.10.2010
Non-trivial Quantum effects Biomolecular systems, Capri, Italy, 17.-20.10.2010
Invited colloquium, Berlin, Germany, 12.-13.11.2010
CEA Saclay, Saclay, France 15.12.2010
2009
Univ. of Lund, Lund, Sweden, 24.-28.1.2009
Univ. of Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania, 29.-30.1.2009
CEA, Saclay, France, 2.-3.3.2009
Intro 2 workshop on photoprotection and non-photochemical quenching, Parsberg, Germany, 6.-12.3.2009
Light-harvesting processes (LHP), Kloster Banz, Germany, 12.-14.3.2009
Solarbiofuels from micro-organisms, Leiden, NL, 27.3.-1.4.2009
Max-Planck-Institute, Colloquium 60th birthday of Alfred Holzwarth, Mülheim, Germany, 24.-25.4.2009
JPU 2009, Bordeaux, France, 27.-30.4.2009
9th HFSP awardees meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 5.6.2009
Gordon conference on Photosynthesis, Boston, USA, 27.6.-3.7.2009
FEBS, Prague, Czech Republic, 4.-8.7.2009
ECSBM, Palermo, Italy, 28.8.-1.9.2009
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, KNAW symposium, Utrecht, NL, 15.9.2009
Capetown University, Capetown, Ghana, 3.-8.10.2009
NISB, Budapest, Hungary, 14.-18.10.2009
Molecular Science Solar Fuel, Stockholm, Sweden, 1.-5.11.2009
Start-up EU-network Harvest, Naantali, Finland, 29.11.-2.12.2009
2008
Symposium Douwe Wiersma: Echoes in the future, Groningen, NL, 7.-8.1.2008
KNAW workshop clean solar fuels, Amsterdam, NL, 31.1-1.2.2008
American Biophysical Society, Long beach, California, USA, 2.-6.2.2008
Intro 2 Final meeting, Lanzarote, Spain, 7.-11.2.2008
ESF Research Conference on Molecular Bioenergetics of Cyanobacteria, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 29.3.-3.4.2008
Lecture Lithuanian Academy of Science, Vilnius, Lithuania, 30.4.-3.5.2008
Lecture Blaise Pascal, ENS, Paris, France, 15.-16.5.2008
Univ. of Lund, Laserlab colloquium, Lund, Sweden, 22.-23.5.2008
UC Irvine, San Francisco, USA, 24. -28.5.2008
Light Energy Conversion in Photosynthesis, Pushchino, Russia, 7.-11.6.2008
Molecular Self-Organization in Micro-, Nano, and Macro Dimensions: From Molecules to Water, to Nanoparticles, DNA and Proteins, Kiev, Ukraine, 8- 10.6.2008
Gordon Research Conference Photosynthesis, Boston, USA, 20.–29.6.2008
Workshop novel methods in exploring carotenoid excited state dynamics, Novi Hrad, Czech Republic, 21. -25.9.2008
Arizona State Univ, Tempe, USA, 12.-20.11.2008
UC Davis, Davis, USA, 12.-20.11.2008
Symposium energy harvesting materials, Boston, USA, 29.11.-2.12.2008
2007
Photoradchem-2007, Kottayam, India, 8/2-11/2
ESF workshop Clean Solar Fuels, Parsberg, FRG, 11/3-14/3
Light-Harvesting Processes, Kloster Banz, FRG, 21/3-24/3
Novartis Photosynthesis Discussion, London, UK, 25/4
Intro2 workshop, Röjtökmuzsaj, Hungary, 13/5-16/5
Advanced Laser Methods, Laskemo Graduate Course, Jyväskylä, Finland, 30/5-1/6
Workshop on Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Systems, Drymen, UK, 18/7-21/7
Femto8, Oxford, UK, 22/7-27/7
International Symposium of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 498 "Protein-Cofactor Interactions in Biological Proceses, Berlin, FRG, 16/9-19/9 Excited States Processes in Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials, Santa Fe, USA, 1/10-4/10
'Molecular Biology of Complex Functions in Botanical Systems' SFB, Velen, FRG, 11/11-12/11
7th ICTPPO, Kyoto, Japan, 9/12-14/12
2nd Int. workshop on Photosynthetic Antennae and Coherent Phenomena, Osaka, Japan, 14/12-16/12
Intro2, Lanzarote, Spain, 7/2-11/2
2006
Intro2/PS1 workshop, Fontrevaud, France, 2/4-7/4
Eur. Solar Energy Brainstorm, Regensburg, FRG, 10/5-13/5
EU workshop "Teaching Biophysics: Curricula, Methods, Problems",Vilnius, Lithuania, June 8/6-10/6
2006GRC Photosynthesis, Bryant College, Rhode Island, USA, 2/7-6/7
14th EBEC, Moscow, 22/7-27/7
ECOF 10, Riga, Latvia, 21/8-24/8
GRC Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Les Diablettes, Switzerland, 10/9-15/9
Intro2/NPQ workshop, Parsberg, FRG, 22/9-24/9
GRC Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels, Ventura, USA, 21/1-26/1
2005
Physics-Chemistry Colloquium, UC Irvine, 17/2
Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization, DOE, Washington, 18/4-21/4
Simula05, Dresden, FRG, 6/6-11/6
Intro2 Int. workshop, Vindeln/Umea, Sweden, 12/6-16/6
30th FEBS Congress - 9th IUBMB Conference Budapest, Hungary 2/7-7/7
Int Quantum El. Conf, Tokyo, Japan, 11/7-15/7
7th Femtochemistry, Washington, USA, 17/7-22/7
ICL, Beijing, China, 25/7-29/7
Excited States Processes in Electronic and Bio Nanomaterials, Santa Fe, USA, 8/8-11/8
ACS National meeting, Washington, USA, 28/8-1/9
ESP Aix-les-Bains, France, 3/9-7/9
ECSBM, Aschaffenburg, FRG, 3/9-8/9
6th ICTPPO, Luzern, 11/9-16/9
Biological Physics, Vilnius, Lithuania, 8/10
Charge Separation in Photosystem II, Loosdrecht, NL, 28/10-30/10
Pacifichem 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 15/12-20/12
SFB Analysis and control of ultrafast photoinduced reactions, Berlin, FRG, 23/3-26/3
2004
Minerva-Gentner Symposium, Closter Banz, FRG, 21/3-25/3
Femtochemistry and Femtobiology, Pecs, Hungary, 25/3-28/3
SPIE, Strasbourg, France, 26/4-30/4
Intro2 Start-up meeting, Trento, Italy, 13/5-16/5
Lund Laser Center user meeting, Lund, Sweden, 25/5
GRC Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, South Hadley, USA, 25/7-30/7
PS2004, Light-Harvesting workshop, St. Adele, Canada, 26/8-29/8
13th Int Congr. Photosynthesis, Montreal, Canada, 29/8-3/9
Excitons in Conjugates Polymers, Un of Mons, Mons, Belgium, 26/11
4th Generation Light Source, Daresbury, UK, 7/2-8/2
2003
Photosynthesis, Russian Ac. Sci. Moscow, Russia, 21/3-27/3
Nanoscale Optics, Netherlands Royal Academy Colloquium, Amsterdam, NL, 9/4-12/4
Tulip Research School, Noordwijk, NL, 4/4-14/4
Photoactive Molecules in the Gas Phase, Aarhus, Denmark, 2/6-3/6
Femtochemistry VI, Paris, France, 6/7-10/7
Fall ACS meeting, Frontiers in Biophysics, New York, USA, 7/9-11/9
MIT Physics of Light-Harvesting, Boston, USA, 17/9
Photosystem 2, Trois Rivieres, Canada, 19/9
ICTPPO, Passau, FRG, 12/9-17/9
Photosystem 1 Discussion meeting, Mülheim, FRG, 19/11-21/11
Molecule-to-Cell Kick-off meeting, Utrecht, NL, 27/2
2002
Novartis Photosynthesis Discussion, London, UK 15/3
Photovoltaics, Petten, NL, 21/3-22/3
ESF workshop Photobiology, Finland, 25/4-29/4
XIIIth Ultrafast Phenomena, Vancouver, Canada, 12/5-17/5
GRC Photosynthesis, Bristol, RI, USA, 16/6-21/6
LALS 2002, Vilnius, Lithuania, 7/7-11/7
EMBO workshop Molecular Genetics and Biophysical Aspects of Photosynthesis Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 26/1-29/1
2001
Workshop Optodynamics in Biological Systems, Marburg, FRg, 20/3-21/3
ICTPPO, Rhode Island, USA, 25/7-30/7
Photosynthetic Light Harvesting, Surfer's Paradise, Australia, 14/8-17/8
Photodynamics, Havana, Cuba, 10/2-16/2
2000
GRC Molecular Electronic Spectroscopy, Colby Sawyer Coll, New London, NH, USA 30/7-4/8
GRC Donor-Acceptor Complexes, Newport, RI, USA 13/8-18/8
Nato Adv. Res. Workshop, Szeged, Hungary 19/9-22/9
ESF-Ultra, Lisbon, Portugal, 19/10-25/10
Biophysics Symposium Delft Univ. NL, 21/11
Photoreceptor Proteins, Netherlands Royal Academy Colloquium, Amsterdam, NL, 23/11-25/11
SFB-Photosynthesis, Berlin, FRG, 11/12-19/12
Warsaw-Amsterdam meeting, Warsaw, Poland, 17/1-19/1
1999
European Research Conference: Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors in Photosynthetic Organisms, Castelvecchio di Pascoli, Italy, 3/9-8/9
XIIIth International Biophysics Congress, Delhi, India, 19/9-24/9
ESF Workshop on Interactions Between Chlorophylls and Carotenoids in Photosynthesis, Antalya, Turkey, 11/10-15/10
VIII Int. Conf. on Hopping Transport and Related Phenomena. Murcia, Spain, 7/9-10/9
XIth UPS, Taipei, Taiwan, 25/10-29/10
ESF-symposium "Biophysics of Photosynthesis", Naatali, Finland, 16/12-19/12
GRC Photosynthesis Kimball Ac, Meriden, NH, USA 13/6-18/6
1998
APS, March meeting, Los Angeles, USA, 16/3-20/3/br> EBEC, Göteborg, Sweden, 27/6-2/7/br> GRC Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Newport, RI, USA, 26/7-31/7
XIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Budapest, Hungary, 17/8-22/8
Biological Physics Symposium, Santa FE, NM, USA, 20/9-24/9
Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Wichita, USA, 4/11-6/11
Ultrafast Spectroscopy Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, 16/12-18/12
Femtochemistry, Leuven, Belgium, 12/7-16/7
PhD-students
Pavel Maly,
Alonso Acuno Sanchez, Expanding society’s toolbox to harvest solar energy: creating multiscale computational models to optimize oxygenic photosynthesis,
Ludzyna Wlodarczyk,
Kinga Sznee, Between order and disorder: the supramolecular organization of photosynthetic membrane.
Vincent Friebe. Hacking Photosynthesis, October 2016
Janneke Ravensbergen. Photophysics of Solar Fuel Materials. November 2, 2015
Alessandro Marin. Energy transport pathways in photosynthetic antennas. April 18, 2012
Michael Gruber. From picoseconds to seconds: Fluorescence dynamics of single light-harvesting complexes. January 2017
Joris Snellenburg. From proteins to the thylakoid membrane: modelling the dynamics of excitation in oxygenic photosynthesis. December 2016
Marco Ferretti. Ultrafast Energy Processes in Photosynthetic Complexes, November 2016
Miroslav Kloz. Carotenoids and Life. Femtoseconds and Light. Transient absorption and femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy of free and bound carotenoids. February 11, 2013
Andreas Stahl. Structure-function relationship in photosynthetic and photo-active proteins. A mid-Infrared investigation with femtosecond time resolution, September 30 2011.
Tjaart P.J. Krueger. The Functional Flexibility of Single Plant Light-Harvesting Complexes. June 30, 2011
Natalia.P.Pawlowicz. Reaction centers studied with femtosecond visible-pump mid-infrared probe spectroscopy. March-april 2009.
Cosimo. Bonetti. Ultrafast Spectroscopy on Photoactive Proteins. February/march 2009.
Maxime.T. Alexandre. Photophysics of Photoactive Proteins. January/February 2009.
Luuk J.G.W. van Wilderen. Ultrafast protein dynamics revealed by infrared spectroscopy. June 27, 2007.
Chantal van der Weij - de Wit. Excitation energy transfer in large, intact photosynthetic systems. June 29,2007.
Rudi Berrera. The role of carotenoids in natural and artificial photosynthesis. November 26, 2007.
Danielis Rutkauskas. The dynamic organization of the bacterial photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes: fluorescence microspectroscopy. January 19, 2006.
Magdalena Gauden. Mechanism of light activation in blue-light photoreceptors. September 18, 2006.
Mikas Vengris. Biological photoreactions explored by multi-pulse ultrafast spectroscopy. February 1, 2005.
Miguel Palacios. Excitonic interactions and energy transfer in the light-harvesting complex II of plants. February 24, 2005.
Elena G. Andrizhiyevskaya. Energy transfer and trapping in photosynthetic complexes with variable antenna size. March 1, 2005.
Sofia Georgakopoulou. Circular dichroism and ring structures. March 17, 2005.
Dmitrij Frolov. B-branch electron transfer in bacterial reaction centers. November 11, 2005.
E.Papagiannakis. Shedding light on the dark states of carotenoids. June 3, 2004.
Jante M. Salverda. Interacting pigments in light-harvesting complexes studied with nonlinear spectroscopy. January 17, 2003.
Anjali Pandit. Folding and oligomerization of membrane proteins. Spectroscopic studies of bee-venom peptide and a bacterial light-harvesting complex. February 4, 2003.
Frank L. de Weerd. A spectroscopic investigation of chlorophylls and ?-carotenes in photosystems I and II. April 15, 2003.
Olaf F.A. Larsen. Ultrafast dynamics of DNA and a tryptophan-containing peptide. October 3, 2002.
Bas Gobets. The life and times of Photosystem I. Excitation energy transfer and trapping unravelled. October 15, 2002.
Markus Wendling. Spectroscopy on bacterial photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes. An in vitro and in silico study. November 11, 2002.
Raoul. N. Frese. Symmetry in photosynthesis and the role of charge-transfer states in reaction centers and light-harvesting complexes. November 20, 2002.
Claudiu C. Gradinaru. Ultrafast dynamics of chlorophylls and carotenoids in antenna complexes from plants and bacteria. Linking energy transfer kinetics to structural properties. March 1, 2001
Stefania S. Lampoura. Dynamics in biological samples and J-aggregates explored by linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy. October 18, 2001.
Marion E. van Brederode. New pathways for ultrafast electron transfer in photosynthetic reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. July 1, 1999.
Foske J. Kleima. Light harvesting and excitation energy transfer in oxygenic photosynthesis. October 21, 1999.
Corline Koolhaas. The relation between the structure and the spectroscopy of a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex. January 27, 1999.
René Monshouwer. The nature and dynamics of excitations in photosynthetic light-harvesting. March 30, 1998.
Erwin J.G. Peterman. Chlorophylls and carotenoids in oxygenic photosynthesis. Light absorption, excitation transfer, fluorescence, and triplet quenching. February 5, 1998.
Camiel Eyckelhoff. The photosystem 2 reaction center. Biochemical and biophysical aspects of photosynthesis in green plants. March 13, 1997.
Marie-Louise Groot. Primary processes in the reaction center of Photosystem II. Transfer, trapping and thermodynamics. January 22, 1997.
Lucas M.P. Beekman. A structural and functional characterization study of the bacterial photosynthetic apparatus: mutants, charge separation and electric field effects. January 9, 1997.
Matthieu Visser. Energy- and electron transfer in photosynthesis studied by sub-picosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. June 11, 1996.
Oscar Somsen. Excitonic interaction in photosynthesis. Migration and spectroscopy. June, 1995.
Martin Kooyman. Type-II intermediate filament proteins: Structure, assembly and interaction with nucleic acids. June, 1995.
Bart van Haeringen. Transient electric birefringence studies on complex protein systems. May, 1994.
Stefan L. S. Kwa. Plant solar cells under illumination: A spectroscopic study of photosystem II. November, 1993.
Frank van Mourik. Spectral inhomogeneity of the bacterial light-harvesting antennae: Causes and consequences. Maart, 1993
Theo A. Roelofs. Excited state dynamics in Photosysteem II: measuring and modelling picosecond fluorescence kinetics. December, 1991.
Geurt Deinum. Excitation migration in photosynthetic antenna systems. September, 1991.
Maxim E. Kuil. Dynamical and structural aspects of DNA-protein interactions. December, 1989.
Herbert van Amerongen. DNA-protein complexes studied with polarized light spectroscopy. June, 1989.
Leonardus P.A.van Houte. An optical-spectroscopic study on the conformation of the covalent complex of DNA and 2-aminofluorene. November, 1988.
Marcel Vos. Pigment organization and energy transfer in photosynthetic antenna systems. Studies by means of excitation annihilation. June, 1987.
Hendrik N. van der Wal. The function of cytochromes in photosynthetic electron transport of purple bacteria. January, 1987.
Martin A. Scheerhagen. The structure of nucleic acids in the complex with the helix destabilizing protein of bacteriophage T4. April, 1986.
Postdoctoral fellows
Juan Manuel Artes Vivancos 1-10-2015
Magdalena Marszalek 1-09-2015
Marco Ferretti 14-10-2015
Elisabet Romero 01-10-2010 – 01-06-2016
Sheela Ramanan 3-10-2011- 1-09-2014
Bart van Oort 1-12-2008
Maxime Alexandre 15-10-2009 - 1-3-2012
Natalia Pawlowicz 1-04-2008 - 15-08-2010
Tjaart Krueger 1-10-2010 - 1-03-2013
Md Wahadoszamen 15-12-2009 – 1-02-2012
Luchao Du 1-09-2013 – 1-09-2014
Michal Gwizdala 01-12-2012 – 1-11-2015
Fei Ma 1-03-2013 – 15-03-2016
Chris Duffy (GB, 2008-2009) Postdoctoral fellow, VU Universit,y Amsterdam, NL
Cristian Ilioaia (Rum., 2007-present) Postdoctoral fellow, VU University, Amsterdam, NL
Rudi Berera (It., 2007-2008). Postdoctoral fellow (Rubicon), CEA-CNRS, Saclay, France.
Marie-Angela Di Donata (It. 2005-present). Postdoctoral fellow, VU University, Amsterdam, NL
Alexander Doust (GB, 2005-2007) Scientist DSM
Krzysztof Gibasiewicz (PL, 2004-2005)Associate Professor of Biophysics, Adam Mickiewicz Un, Poznan, Poland
Janne Ihalainen (Finn. 2003-2006). Professor of NanoBiophysics, Un. Of Jyväskylä, Finland
Elena Andrizhiyevskaya (BR, 2005-2006) Scientist, ASML, NL
Manolis Papagiannakis (Gr., 2005-2007)Assistant Professor, Un. Of Crete, Greece
John T.M. Kennis (NL, 2002-2005). Assistant Professor of Biophysics, VU University, Amsterdam, NL
C.T. Aravindakumar (2003) Professor of Physical Chemistry, Un. of Kottayam, India
Raoul. N. Frese (NL, 2004) Postdoctoral fellow, Un.of Leiden, NL
Jennifer L. Herek (USA, 2002). Professor of Optical Sciences, Twente University, NL
Marie-Louise Groot (NL, 2001-2004). Professor of Biophysics, VU University, Amsterdam, NL
Andy Pascal (GB, 2002). Scientist, CNRS, Saclay, France
Lavanya Premvardhan (USA, 2001-2004). Scientist, CNRS, Paris, France
Delmar S.Larsen (USA, 2002-2004). Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry, UC Davis, USA
Virgis Barzda (Lith, 1997-1990 Associate Professor of Biophysics, Un. Of Toronto, Canada
Vladimir Novoderezhkin (Russ.,1998-1999) Professor of Physics, Dept of Physics, Moscow State University, Russia
Brent Krueger (USA) (1999). Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, USA
Greg Scholes (Audtralian) (1997). Professor of Physical Chemistry, Un of Toronto, Canada
Tonu Pullerits (Estonian) (1995-1996). Associate.Professor of Chemical Physics, Un of Lund, Sweden
Frank van Mourik (1994-1998). Professor of Physical Chemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Michael Bloemendal (NL, 1992-1995) Professor of Chemistry, Hebrew Un., Jerusalem, Israel.
Herbert van Amerongen (NL, 1988-1989). Professor of Biophysics, Wageningen University, NL.
Kees J. Visscher (NL, 1987-1988). Clinical Physicist, NL
William R. Newell (GB, 1988-1990). Computer Scientist, Birmingham, UKen om te bewerken.