Blog posts

It is out!! …

Can two parents with a family pursue both a career in research? That is the question we have pondered with my wife in her nice blog post about our path through research posted on LinedIn and on Czexpats blog (Google Translate makes quite a good job in turning it into your language). …

It is already a big challenge to caputre functional conformations of proteins. And it is even a greater challenge to capture the conformations of multimeric proteins! …

The weather in February was as Dutch is it could get — so high variance! …

I am excited to announce that after about 7 years my work with antennae in fluorescent proteins is (finally!) published! 🥳 …

It does not look like that today, but in the past few days it was possible to walk on some of the frozen canals! Kids loved it, we parents were a little terrified about the sound of cracking ice at the canal edges (we calmed ourselves by saying that the canal is very very shallow) and some ducks seemed a bit confused about their new skill walking on water 🦆🧊😃 …

The Monday after the Christmas break has hit our daily routines hard, right in the morning. …

(PhD student, thinking…) …

I have just handed four copies of my doctoral thesis with the title ‘Simulation of processes in cellular membranes’ to the faculty. From today’s point of view, it was not such an easy task as it had looked like in the beginning. Collecting your work from the whole PhD study and summarize it in a compact and comprehensive way – easy, right? To me, the most complicated part was weaving it together so that it makes a single solid story. You can check yourself how much I have succeeded in that – the thesis is available here. …