CV Liedewij Laan
Education
| 05/2005 - 06/2009 | PhD cum laude in Physics (highest distinction, top 1-3%) from Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands |
| 09/1999 - 05/2005 | Bachelor/Master met lof in Applied Physics (highest distinction, top 10%), Twente University, Enschede, Netherlands |
Research experience
| 04/2019 - present | Associate professor at the Bionanoscience department at Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands |
| 10/2014 - 03/2019 | Assistant professor at the Bionanoscience department at Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands |
| 01/2010 - 09/2014 | Post-doc at the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University, in the group of prof. dr. Andrew Murray, Cambridge, US |
| 06/2009 - 01/2010 | Post-doc at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), in the group of prof. dr. Marileen Dogterom, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 05/2005 - 06/2009 | PhD student at AMOLF, in the group of prof. dr. Marileen Dogterom, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 02/2009 - 03/2009 | Visitor invited via the Global Center of Excellence program, Nagoya University School of Medicine, in the group of prof. dr. Kozo Kaibuchi, Nagoya, Japan |
| 10/2008 - 11/2008 | Visitor at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS), in the group of prof. dr. Frank Jülicher, Dresden, Germany |
| 10/2005 - 12/2006 | Visitor at European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in the group of dr. Thomas Surrey, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 04/2004 - 04/2005 | Master student at AMOLF in the group of prof. dr. Marileen Dogterom |
Dr. ir. Liedewij Laan
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Building 58, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, Room F1.290
Awards and fellowships
| 2017 - 2022 | Recipient of a Starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) |
| 2017 - 2022 | Recipient of VIDI personal grant from NWO-ALW |
| 2014 - 2019 | Delft Technology Fellowship |
| 2011 | Honorary mention for the Christiaan Huygens Prize for Physics 2011 |
| 2010 - 2013 | HFSP Cross Disciplinary Fellowship |
| 2010 | European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) long term fellowship (declined) |
| 2010 | Rubicon fellowship from the Dutch Research Foundation (NWO) |
| 2009 | FASEB Young Investigators travel award, at the FASEB summer research conference: Spindle Assembly and Function, Lucca, Italy (2009) |
| 2009 | Award from the Global Center of Excellence Program funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (2009) |
| 2008 | One of four Dutch representatives (selected by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences) at the 58th Nobel Laureates meeting : Physics, in Lindau |
Invited talks
- Cellular Dynamics & Models meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, US (2019)
- Cell Biophysics symposium, 2019 Biophysical Society meeting, Baltimore, US (2019)
- Lecturer for the biophysics course: Multiscale Integration in Biological Systems: Institute Curie, Paris, France (2018)
- EMBO conference: Physics of Cells: From Biochemical to Mechanical, Harrogate, UK (2018)
- Kavli Institute Community Symposium: Cutting-edge science from around the world, Oslo (2018)
- EMBO workshop: “Cell and developmental systems, Arolla, Switserland (2018)
- International Symposium on “Synthetic Biology III”, Munich, Germany (2018)
- Seminar at the Physics Department at Zagreb University, Croatia (2018)
- Seminar at the Living Systems Institute at Exeter, UK (2018)
- Seminar at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal (2018)
- Seminar (invited by the students) at the Biochemistry Department at Oxford University, UK (2017)
- 21st Evolutionary Biology Meeting, Marseilles, France (2017)
- Physics of Living Systems Conference, Cambridge, UK (2017)
- International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics meeting, Edinburg, UK (2017)
- Seminar at MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen, Germany (2016)
- Gordon Research Conference for Molecular and Cellular Fungal Biology, USA (2016)
- Lorentz workshop: Anisotropy and Shape in Biological Materials, Leiden, Netherlands (2016)
- CAS conference for Synthetic Biology II, Munich, Germany (2015)
- Quantitative Biosciences lecture in Munich (invited by the students), Germany (2015)
- Seminar at Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics group, Utrecht University, Netherlands (2015)
- Nanofront retreat, Courchevel, France (2015)
- Experimental Evolution using yeast and other model systems meeting, Heidelberg, Germany (2014)
- Walk and talk at the nanoscale, CENS meeting, Venice, Italy (2014)
- Synthetic Cell Symposium, FOM Institute AMOLF, the Netherlands (2014)
- Seminar at SUNY Brook, Brooklyn, NY, US (2014)
- Seminar at the EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (2013)
- Seminar at Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden, the Netherlands (2013)
- Cellular Dynamics Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US (2013)
- BN seminar, Delft University, the Netherlands (2012)
- Microbial Evolution meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US (2012)
- American Society for Cell Biology meeting, San Diego, CA, US (2009)
- Meeting on Microtubules and Motors, Utrecht, the Netherlands (2009)
- Global retreat of Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan (2009)
- Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008)
Theses
Liedewij Laan (2009)
Force Generation by Microtubule Ends: An in vitro approach to cortical interactions.
Liedewij Laan (2005)
Force-generation by microtubule bundels: Many hands make light work.