Marileen Dogterom

Marileen Dogterom (2019)

Aletta Maria "Marileen" Dogterom (born November 20, 1967 in Utrecht ) is a Dutch biophysicist (bionanosciences).

Dogterom received her diploma in theoretical physics from the University of Groningen , was at Princeton University and received her doctorate in 1994 from the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay (Dissertation: Aspects physiques de l'assemblage des microtubules et du fuseau mitotique. Physical aspects of microtubule growth and mitotic spindle formation ). As a post-doctoral student , she was at Bell Laboratories . In 1997 she became a project manager at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam, which is operated by the NWO . She was head of department there from 2003 to 2013. In 2000 she became an associate professor at the University of Leiden , where she received a full professorship in 2010. In 2014 she became a professor at the TU Delft and is there at the Kavli Nanolab. In 2016 she became Medical Delta Professor with professorships in both Leiden and Delft.

She is concerned with the cytoskeleton , which she tries to recreate in the laboratory and thus also quantitatively understand its effect. She plans to work with other teams to build the first artificial cell, with her group working on the cytoskeleton.

She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (2016). In 2018 she received the most important Dutch science award , the Spinoza Prize .

In 2013 she received an ERC Synergy Grant with Anna Akhmanova . In 2015 she received the Dutch Physics Prize (awarded annually by the Dutch Physical Society). In 2013 she became a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and in 2015 a member of the Academie Europaea.

Web links

• Dogterom Lab
• Website at the KNAW