
Manager of the R&D department at Bruker AXS in Delft
The Hague Area, Netherlands

Manager of the R&D department at Bruker AXS in Delft
The Hague Area, Netherlands
Physical chemist with ample experience in X-ray crystallography (single crystal X-ray diffraction). Application programmer and software architecture designer for X-ray crystallographic instruments and 3D visualization of molecules. Department manager of a research group.
Taking seriously all management tasks that enhance the productivity of a diverse group of professionals.
Functioning as secretary of the workers counsel, active member of international product line management team as well as local management team. Acquire funding for research through subsidies. Maintaining a network with University research groups.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BRKR; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
April 2001 — Present (7 years 2 months)
Providing guidance to a diverse group of professionals in the development of single-crystal X-ray diffraction systems.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
September 1997 — March 2001 (3 years 7 months)
Even in my position as manager of the R&D department, writing application software is still one of my tasks. The merger of Nonius with Bruker AXS provides an easy but artificial date to split this into two jobs.
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
July 1993 — August 1997 (4 years 2 months)
Validation of protein structures, WHAT IF programming.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 1989 — June 1993 (4 years)
PhD, Chemistry, 1989 — 1993
Research on the mechanism of sweet taste. Developed new molecular mechanics methods and molecular dynamics methods. Solved a number of crystal structures.
Master, Chemistry, 1985 — 1989
Studied the Maximum Entropy method in X-ray crystallography.
Becoming an effective manager, Keeping track of new technology, Crystallography, (physical) Chemistry, Computing, Python Wikipedia bot framework (pywikipedia, original author)
KNCV,
Nederlandse vereniging voor Kristallografie,
American Crystallographic Association,
European Crystallographic Association,
Manager Tools,
Cyttron Cellular microscope project,
Wikipedia (editor, bot programmer), 2K Kennis & Kunde management training