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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.

Renske M. van der Veen

Principal Investigator - renske@illinois.edu, renske.vanderveen@helmholtz-berlin.de

Since June 2021

2015-2021

 

 

2013-2015

 

 

 

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

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

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2021-present

2019-2021

2014-2018

2010-2012

2007-2010

Tenure-track research scientist, Helmholtz Center Berlin, BESSY II

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D. in Photonics, ​Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

M.S. in Material Science, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

B.S. in Chemistry, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Graduate Students

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Rachel Wallick

6th Year Graduate Student (shared with Josh Vura-Weis and Liviu Mirica)

wallick3@illinois.edu

2018-Today

 

 

2012-2016

Ph.D. Student in Physical Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

B.S. in Chemistry and B.A. in Spanish, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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Jack Burke

5th Year Graduate Student (shared with Josh Vura-Weis)

jhburke2@illinois.edu

2019-Today

 

 

2014-2018

Ph.D. Student in Physical Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.S. in Chemistry with minors in Mathematics and Physics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

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