Dr. Geerten W. Vuister, groupleader
After obtaining his Masters degree in Chemistry from
the University of Groningen with Profs. R. Kaptein and
H.J.C Berendsen, Dr. Vuister was awarded in 1988 the DSM
Prize for Chemistry and Technology. He pursued his academic
career at the University of Utrecht with Profs. R. Kaptein
and R. Boelens and obtained his Doctorate degree
cum
laude in 1991 on “Homonuclear Three-Dimensional
NMR Spectroscopy of Biomolecules”. In 1991 he
received an NWO research stipend and from 1991 until 1994
he went for a postdoctoral position to the Laboratory of
Chemical Physics of the National Institute of Diabetes,
Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of
Health in Bethesda, MD, USA working under the supervision
of Dr. A. Bax. Subsequently, Dr. Vuister returned to the
Netherlands and was appointed as Assistant Professor in the
Department of NMR spectroscopy at the University of Utrecht
(1994-1997) and was in that period recipient a Research
stipend of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences (KNAW). In 1997 Dr. Vuister became Associate
professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry, IMM at
the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2005, he received the
prestigious VICI grant of the
Dutch Science Foundation. In 2007,
his newly formed group "Protein Biophysics" moved to
the NCMLS research building.
Last revised: November 2007
