“No one can predict the future, which is a good thing, since if the future were predictable, that would mean we couldn’t change it.” — CORY DOCTOROW
Hi and welcome! My name is Martin, and I am a scientist and an engineer who spends most of his time thinking about how to make biology easier and safer to analyze, manipulate, and deploy.
I have a PhD in biophysics from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience and TU Delft, where I developed microfluidics-based platform for studying protein-DNA interactions in the group of Cees Dekker. During my PhD, I co-founded Nucleate Netherlands, received an EMBO Fellowship to extend my work into synthetic genomics in the group of Patrick Cai, and published on citizen science and biosecurity. Currently, I am based in Zurich and building a nanopore-based technology for proteomics at UNOMR.
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“The highest result of education is tolerance.” — HELEN KELLER
“If you really believed in the sacredness of the present moment, you would not want to waste it chasing phantoms.” — GEORGE SAUNDERS
