Short CV

Dirk-Jan Scheffers

23 september 1972

Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Academic career

2008                Ciência 2007 Research Fellow, Bacterial Membrane Proteomics, ITQB, Portugal

2007                EMBO short term fellowship (3 months), Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,                                                        University of Stockholm, Sweden - lab of Jan Willem de Gier

2004 - 2008    VENI research fellow, Department of Molecular Microbiology, VU University of Amsterdam,                                                 the Netherlands, lab of Joen Luirink

2001 - 2004    Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of                                                            Oxford, UK, lab of Jeff Errington (now at University of Newcastle)

1996 -  2001   Ph.D. student, Department of Molecular Microbiology, University of Groningen, the                                                              Netherlands. Ph.D. supervisor: Arnold Driessen

Esteem indicators

2008      Member of editorial advisory board of Molecular Microbiology

2007      EMBO short term fellowship (also awarded FEBS short term fellowship)

2003      VENI research fellowship, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

              EU/Marie Curie Reintegration grant

2001      EU/Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellowship (also awarded EMBO long term fellowship)

2001      Van Swinderen Prize (best popular scientific summary of a Ph.D. thesis in the faculties of                                                 Mathematics, Natural sciences and Medicine at the University of Groningen)