Nico Sommerdijk#
| Membership Number: | 5523 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/people/nico-sommerdijk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8956-195X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Professor of Bone Biochemistry, Radboud Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, RadboudUMC Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2014 - 2019 Chair Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 2014 - 2019 Professor in Bio-inspired and Multiscale Materials, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 2008 - 2014 Associate Professor in Interfacial Materials Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 2000 - 2008 Assistant Professor in Biomimetic Materials Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 1999 - 2000 Research Fellow with E.W. Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 1997 - 1999 Research Fellow with R.J.M. Nolte, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 1995 - 1997 Human Capital and Mobility Research Fellow with J.D Wright, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Biomineralization
- Advanced electron microscopy
- Biomimetic Materials
- Bioinspired Materials
- Crystallization
- Selfassembly
Honours and Awards
- 2018 ERC Advanced Grant: “A “Google Earth” Approach to Understanding Collagen Mineralization” - 3500k euro
- 2016 TOP-PUNT Grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research - 1750k euro
- 2015 Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award
- 2015 “Leaders of the Field” program Royal Society of Chemistry
- Nomination “Golden Lecturer of the Year 2013” Royal Netherlands Chemical Society
- 2010 NWO VICI Award “Understanding Bio(mimetic) Mineralization - 1500k euro
- TU/e Excellence Fund Award (2009)
- 2006 NWO VIDI Award “Biomimetic Synthesis of CaCO3 Biomaterials” - 600k euro
- March/April 1999 Unilever Visiting Fellowship “Biomimetic Mineralization” at Keele University, UK
