Manager of the R&D department at Bruker AXS in Delft
The Hague Area, Netherlands
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- Manager R&D at Bruker AXS
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- Application software engineer at Nonius BV
- Postdoc at European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
- PhD student (AIO) at Utrecht University
- Education
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- Universiteit Utrecht
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Gregorius lagere school (hieronimusplantsoen)
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Rob Hooft’s Summary
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.
Rob Hooft’s Specialties:
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.
Rob Hooft’s Experience
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Manager R&D
Bruker AXS
(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.
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Application software engineer
Nonius BV
(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.
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Postdoc
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
July 1993 — August 1997 (4 years 2 months)
Validation of protein structures, WHAT IF programming.
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PhD student (AIO)
Utrecht University
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 1989 — June 1993 (4 years)
Rob Hooft’s Education
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Universiteit Utrecht
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.
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Universiteit Utrecht
Master, Chemistry, 1985 — 1989
Studied the Maximum Entropy method in X-ray crystallography.
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Gregorius lagere school (hieronimusplantsoen)
Additional Information
Rob Hooft’s Websites:
Rob Hooft’s Interests:
Becoming an effective manager, Keeping track of new technology, Crystallography, (physical) Chemistry, Computing, Python Wikipedia bot framework (pywikipedia, original author)
Rob Hooft’s Groups:
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
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Manager-Tools Amsterdam Conference Alumni member
