CV

EXPERIENCE

 

1993 

Laurea in Chemistry, University of Padova (Italy)

1998

PhD Plant Biology (biochemistry and biophysics), University of Milan (Italy)

1998-2000

Post-doc Max Planck Institute Mulheim a.d. Ruhr (Germany)

2001-2006

Researcher, CNR,  Institute of Biophysics, Milano/Trento (Italy)

2006-2008

Assistant professor, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

2008-2011

Associate professor, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

2011- present

Full Professor/Head of the group Biophysics of Photosynthesis and Energy, Vrije  Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES, SUPERVISION

 

>190 Publications in peer-reviewed journals (for the full publication list see orcid.org/0000-0003-3469-834X or https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6co_5sgAAAAJ&hl=en)

 

H Index: 65 (WoS), 72 (Google Scholar)

Total citations > 12000 (ISI), >16000 (Google Scholar)

Invited lectures in the last 5 years > 40

Supervision activity as PI: PhD students: 20; Post-docs: 21

 

 

MAJOR PERSONAL GRANTS

Vidi (2006), Vici (2010) ,TOP (2018) and GROOT (2021) from the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research; ERC Consolidator grant (2011); ERC Advanced grant (2024)  

 

 

SELECTED ACTIVITIES & HONOURS

 


Since 2023

Elected president of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR)


Since 2022 

Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)


2016 

Chair (with H. van Amerongen) of the 17th International Conference of Photosynthesis Maastricht 7-12 August 2016


Since 2014 

Member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of SCIENCE magazine


Since 2013 

Member of Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW)