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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