Ronald van Rij#
| Membership Number: | 5763 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.vanrijlab.org |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0221-4689 |
| Twitter: | @VanRijLab |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-van-rij-b8675062 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Professor of Experimental Virology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- 2012 - present head Laboratory of Experimental Virology, dept. Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center
- 2018 Guest Professor, University of Pavia, Italy
- 2014 - 2019 Associate Professor, Radboud University Medical Center
- 2010 - 2014 Assistant Professor, Radboud University Medical Center
- 2008 - 2010 Tenure-track Fellow, Radboud University Medical Center
- 2006 - 2007 Post-doctoral fellow, Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology & Stem Cell Research, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- 2002 - 2006 Post-doctoral fellow, EMBO fellowship, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), dept. Microbiology and Immunology, San Francisco, CA, USA
- 1997 - 2002 PhD student, Sanquin Research and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Antiviral research
- piRNA pathway
- Insect viruses
- Aedes aegypti
- Drosophila melanogaster
- RNA interference
- Virus-host interactions
- Insect immunity
- Arboviruses
- Vector competence
Honours and Awards
- 2020 European Research Council (ERC), Proof of Concept Grant
- 2020 Board member, Section Virology, Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (KNVM)
- 2019 Lecturer of the year, MSc program Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Radboud University Medical Center
- 2014 - 2018 Board member, study group Nucleic Acids, Chemical Sciences division, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).
- 2017 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), VICI award
- 2017 Human Frontiers Science Program Program, Research Grant
- 2017 PhD supervisor of the year, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences (RIMLS)
- 2014 European Research Council (ERC), Consolidator Grant
- 2010 Kluyver Award, Royal Dutch Society for Microbiology (KNVM)
- 2008 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), VIDI award
- 2002 EMBO Long Term Fellowship
- 2002 Distinction Cum Laude (top 5%) for PhD degree, University of Amsterdam
