In Angewandte Chemie
December, 2023
Check out Jorn's paper on the photocontrol of anion-templated pseudorotaxane formation in ACIE
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Thesis Defense David
December, 2023
David successfully defended his thesis entitled "pyrrole-based photoswitchable anion receptors"
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3 Poster Prizes
November, 2023
Indigo's poster received the jury award, audience award, and the Master students' first choice award at the HRSMC annual symposium
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Publication in JACS
September, 2023
Nol's work on unique protonation-controlled isomerization of hemi-indigo has now been published
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New publication out
July, 2023
David and Jasper's collaborative project on photocontrol of anion transport activity - independent of affnity - has been published in JOC
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Fay joins the group
July, 2023
We welcome Fay van Belkum for her Master internship project
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Highlight in C2W
July, 2023
David's Chem. Commun. paper has been highlighted in C2W Magazine
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ERC Conference
July, 2023
Sander gave a lecture in Edinburgh and Indigo won the poster prize!
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New group member
July, 2023
We welcome Abhishek Mondal from India as a new postdoctoral fellow
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Manuscripts published
June, 2023
An overview of stimulus-controlled anion binding and transport is now available in Chemical Reviews and our latest addition is in ChemComm
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SupraChemDays 2023
June, 2023
Sander is giving a talk at the Supramolecular Chemistry Days for Young Researchers in Cagliari
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New BSc students
April, 2023
Felix and Youri join the group for their Bachelor internship projects
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Lecture by Indigo
March, 2023
Indigo gives a vMASC seminar about her research on signal transduction leading to folding
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Foresight Lecture
March, 2023
Sander talks about molecular machines in the lipid bilayer
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Julia wins MSCA Grant
February, 2023
Julia Villalva has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant
Best Poster Awards
November, 2022
Two prizes! Both David and Jorn received an award for their poster presentation at the RSC-MASC meeting in Nottingham, Congrats!
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Sander promoted
November, 2022
Sander has been promoted to Associate Professor and thanks all the past and current co-workers!
New group members
October, 2022
We welcome postdoc David Lozano moving in from Southampton and PhD student Lin Xu from Shandong
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Fresh off the press
September, 2022
Stefan's work on polymer actuation has been published in ACS-AMI and a review on photoswitchable tweezers is out now in ChemComm
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Jorn talks at Chains
September, 2022
Jorn talks about photoresponsive pseudorotaxanes at the annual Dutch Chemistry Conference
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Sofiia joins the group
September, 2022
Sofiia left Moscow to join our group as a PhD student, the best of luck!
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Invited lectures
June, 2022
Sander visits Telluride and the ICNI in Strasbourg to present our work
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New group member
June, 2022
We welcome Julia Villalva, who exchanged Madrid for Leiden to join us as a postdoctoral fellow
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Symposium in Leiden
May, 2022
We are organizing the 1st edition of the Kroese-Duijsters Symposium which will take place on 30-31 May
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HRSMC Lecture David
March, 2021
David gives a talk at the HRSMC annual symposium about his switchable calix[4]pyrrole work
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Manuscript in JACS
December, 2021
Our collaborative work with the group of Phil Gale (Sydney) on photocontrolled transmembrane transport has been published
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NWO-M1 grant awarded
December, 2021
We are very grateful to the Dutch Science Foundation for funding our exploration of light-switchable receptors in ion-pair extractions
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Lectures at Pacifichem
December, 2021
Sander gives two (virtual) lectures at the Pacifichem Meeting in Hawaii
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Jasper talks at Chains
December, 2021
Jasper gives a (virtual) talk about photoswitchable anion transport
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Manuscript Accepted
September, 2021
David's just accepted manuscript on push-pull stiff-stilbene is online
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Talk at ACS Atlanta
August, 2021
Sander gives a (virtual) talk about photoswitchable anion receptors at the ACS Fall Meeting in Atlanta
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Sabine joins the group
August, 2021
A warm welcome to our new PhD student Sabine, the best of luck!
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Nol joins the group
March, 2021
We welcome new PhD student Nol Duindam and wish him all the best!
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Edge Article Accepted
January, 2021
David's work on a photoswitchable calix[4]pyrrole receptor has been published in Chemical Science
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Stefan Mommer joins
January, 2021
A big welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow Stefan!
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David at Chains
December, 2020
David gives a talk at the CHAINS Dutch Chemistry Conference about his switchable calix[4]pyrrole work
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New article in JACS
November, 2020
The work from our collaboration with Jon Beves on "controlled diffusion of photoswitchable receptors" has been published
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Article published
October, 2020
Check out our latest paper on "supramolecularly induced rotary motion" in Org. Chem. Front.
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New Group Members
September, 2020
We welcome Suchismita Saha as a new postdoctoral fellow and Guido Brugman who will do his MSc research project with us. Success!
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NWO-XS Grant Awarded
August, 2020
We are delighted to receive funding from the NWO Domain Science for "Developing synthetic foldamers into membrane channels".
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Nature Chemistry
June, 2020
Have a look at our new paper on "porosity modulation by light in a covalent-organic framework".
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New Highlight Review
May, 2020
Invited highlight review on "light-switchable metal-organic cages" has been published in Chemistry Letters and featured on the cover.
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Minireview Published
March, 2020
Check out David's minireview on "stiff-stilbene photoswitches" published in Angewandte Chemie.
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Indigo joins the group
March, 2020
We welcome Indigo Bekaert as a new PhD student and wish her all the best for the coming years!
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Sander new YAE Fellow
January, 2020
Sander becomes a member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and looks forward to help shaping EU science and science policy.
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Sander at RSC MASC
December, 2019
Sander gives a talk at the RSC Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Meeting in Canterbury.
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The group visits chains
December, 2019
David, Jorn and Jasper present posters at the annual CHAINS Dutch Chemistry Conference.
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