dr. IE (Emilie) Wientjes

Current position

• 2015 - present      Assistant Professor Biophysics and Photosynthesis - Laboratory of Biophysics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Previous positions

• 2014 - 2015         FOM Postdoctoral Fellow Biophysics and Plasmonics - hosted by the Laboratory of Biophysics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Herbert van Amerongen
• 2012 - 2014         Postdoctoral Fellow Biophysics and Plasmonics, Molecular Nanophotonics, Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona, Spain. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Niek van Hulst
• 2011 - 2012         Postdoctoral Fellow Biophysics and Photosynthesis - Biophysics group, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Roberta Croce

Education

• 2007 - 2011         PhD (Cum Laude, top 5%) - Molecular Photobiology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Title: Revealing the light-harvesting properties of Photosystem I - From single antenna to supercomplex. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Roberta Croce
• 2002 - 2007         MSc Molecular Sciences (Cum Laude, top 5%), Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Fellowships, grants and awards

• 2019                   Vidi fellowship awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), 5 years research fellowship 
• 2015                   Veni fellowship awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), three year research fellowship
• 2015                    Marie Sklodowska Currie Individual Fellowship awarded by the European Commission, two years research fellowship
• 2014                    FOM/v Fellowship, upto three years research fellowship
• 2012                    Marie Curie International Fellowship COFUND and ICFOnest program, two years research fellowship

Publications

• 30 publications in refereed journals
• > 1300 citations (Web of Science), > 1800 (Google Scholar)
• h-index: 18 (Web of Science), 20 (Google Scholar)