Nico Sommerdijk#


Nico Sommerdijk
Membership Number:5523
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CHEMICAL SCIENCES
Elected:2020
Main Country of Residence:THE NETHERLANDS
Homepage(s):https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/people/nico-sommerdijk
ORCID:0000-0002-8956-195X





Present and Previous Positions

  • 2019 - present Professor of Bone Biochemistry, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, RadboudUMC Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • 2014 - 2019 Chair Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 2014 - 2019 Professor in Bio-inspired and Multiscale Materials, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 2008 - 2014 Associate Professor in Interfacial Materials Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 2000 - 2008 Assistant Professor in Biomimetic Materials Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 1999 - 2000 Research Fellow with E.W. Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • 1997 - 1999 Research Fellow with R.J.M. Nolte, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • 1995 - 1997 Human Capital and Mobility Research Fellow with J.D Wright, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Fields of Scholarship
  • Biomineralization
  • Advanced electron microscopy
  • Biomimetic Materials
  • Bioinspired Materials
  • Crystallization
  • Selfassembly

Honours and Awards
  • 2018 ERC Advanced Grant: “A “Google Earth” Approach to Understanding Collagen Mineralization” - 3500k euro
  • 2016 TOP-PUNT Grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - 1750k euro
  • 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award
  • 2015 “Leaders of the Field” program Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Nomination “Golden Lecturer of the Year 2013” Royal Netherlands Chemical Society
  • 2010 NWO VICI Award “Understanding Bio(mimetic) Mineralization - 1500k euro
  • TU/e Excellence Fund Award (2009)
  • 2006 NWO VIDI Award “Biomimetic Synthesis of CaCO3 Biomaterials” - 600k euro
  • March/April 1999 Unilever Visiting Fellowship “Biomimetic Mineralization” at Keele University, UK

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