People

Roelfes and Mayer groups at Zhi's farewell dinner, July 2021. First post-covid group dinner, even though not all members could attend.

Gerard Roelfes
Gerard Roelfes obtained his MSc and PhD (2000) from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His PhD research (supervisor Prof. Ben L. Feringa) was on synthetic models for non-heme iron oxygenases, which was a joint project with Unilever Research (Dr. R. Hage) and the group of Prof. Lawrence Que Jr. (Univ. Minnesota), in whose lab he carried out part of the work. After his PhD he went for a post-doc with Prof. Donald Hilvert in the Laboratorium fur Organische Chemie of the ETH-Zurich (Switzerland), where he worked on synthetic strategies towards seleno-proteins, using a combination of chemical and biological methods. In 2003 he returned to the University of Groningen as a junior research group leader. He became Assistant Professor in 2006, Associate Professor in 2010 and since 2015 is Full Professor of Biomolecular Chemistry & Catalysis.

Group members

Annabelle Neri
MSc student
Bart Brouwer
PhD student
Claudia da Settimo Passetti
PhD student
Fabrizio Casilli
PhD student
Franco della Felice
Postdoc
Friso Aalbers
Postdoc
Lars Longwitz
Postdoc
Linda Ofori Atta
PhD student
Marta Fernández
MSc student
Mathijs Veen
PhD student
Michela Vargiu
PhD student
Renger Dijkstra
MSc student
Reuben Leveson-Gower
PhD student
Ru Jiang
Postdoc
Tanja Böllersen
PhD student
Former PhD students

Dowine de Bruijn

Reinder de Vries

Shreyans Chordia

Rik Megens

Lorina Gjonaj

Jeffrey Bos

Jens Oelerich

Ivana Drienovská

Arjan Geersing

Fiora Rosati

Manuela Bersellini

Tieme van der Berg

Arnold Boersma

Qian Li

Núria Sancho Oltra

Ewold Dijk

Ruben Maaskant

Hugo van Oosterhout

Liliana Cozzoli

Cora Gutiérrez de Souza

Roos van Lier

Former postdocs

Almudena García Fernàndez

Lara Villarino Palmaz

Ana Rioz Martínez

David Coquière

Nathalie Ségaud

Eswar Reddem

Clemens Mayer

Sara Hernández Mejías

Zhi Zhou

Lur Alonso Cotchico

Daniel Sauer