Group Photo Spring 2018. From left to right: Omid Zandi, Eric Thornburg, Cecilia Gentle, Henry Wang, Allan Sykes, Alexandra "Sasha" Lamtyugina, Ryan Cornelius, Renske van der Veen (with Oscar), Conner Dykstra, and the Tyler Haddock.
Principal Investigator
Renske M. van der Veen
Principal Investigator - renske@illinois.edu, renske.vanderveen@helmholtz-berlin.de
Since June 2021
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2015-2021
2013-2015
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2011-2013
2006-2010
2005-2006
2002-2005
Department head at the Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy in Berlin, and Professor at the Technical University of Berlin
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Project group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, affiliated with the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, Germany
Postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Ph.D. in Chemistry, EPFL, Switzerland
M.S. in Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
B.S. in Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Postdoctoral Scholars
Thomas Rossi
2021-present
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2019-2021
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2014-2018
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2010-2012
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2007-2010
Tenure-track research scientist, Helmholtz Center Berlin, BESSY II
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Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Ph.D. in Photonics, ​Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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M.S. in Material Science, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
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B.S. in Chemistry, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
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Graduate Students
2019-Today
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Ph.D. Student in Physical Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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B.S. in Chemistry with minors in Mathematics and Physics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
2014-2018
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