Biophysics
Biophysicists provide and apply physical techniques and try to understand life processes and structures in terms of underlying physical laws and principles. The distinction between the “live” (biology) and “dead” (physics) world is disappearing more and more.
Our research
- Photosynthetic light harvesting: dynamics and acclimation
- NMR/MRI in soft matter and food science
- Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Applied to Foods
- Single-molecule Biophysics
- Acclimation responses in photosynthetic organisms
- Nanodynamics of biomolecules
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News
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Dogma-breaking photosynthesis research wins Thesis Award 2022
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Sonja Schmid wins Steinhofer Award for protein dynamics research
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Competitive 3Mio grant for nanopore consortium involving Sonja Schmid at BIP
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Donny Merkx receives the C.J. Gorter NMR-DG Award
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Special Issue in Food Structure – Multiscale simulations and experimental characterization of structured foods
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Breaking the photobleaching limit in single-molecule FRET with DyeCycling
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Special Issue in Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry – Multiscale Food Structures and FoodOmics
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First international blind study on single-molecule FRET kinetics
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Contribution to book “Photosynthesis in Action”
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Science illustration covered in the Volkskrant
Our latest publications
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Mechanistic kinetic modelling of lipid oxidation in vegetable oils to estimate shelf-life
Food Chemistry (2024), Volume: 433 - ISSN 0308-8146 -
Interlaboratory study on lipid oxidation during accelerated storage trials with rapeseed and sunflower oil analyzed by conjugated dienes as primary oxidation products
European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology (2023) - ISSN 1438-7697 -
A compact permanent magnet for microflow NMR relaxometry
Journal of Magnetic Resonance (2023), Volume: 347 - ISSN 1090-7807 -
An external speed control for nanopore reads
Nature Nanotechnology (2023) - ISSN 1748-3387 -
Editorial: Photosynthesis under fluctuating light
Frontiers in Plant Science (2023), Volume: 14 - ISSN 1664-462X