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Huub de Groot, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC), Leiden University, Netherlands
Huub de Groot is professor of Biophysical Organic Chemistry at Leiden University. His multidisciplinary research group uses biological solid state NMR, membrane protein biochemistry and expression, chemical synthesis and multiscale biomodeling. He investigates energy conversion and cofactor-protein interactions in photosynthetic membrane complexes, and the translation of principles from photosynthesis into “artificial leaves”. He coordinated an EU consortium that ignited a revolution in the solid state NMR research and obtained in 2000 the first ultra high field solids NMR spectrometer for membrane protein research, which is installed in Leiden.
In 1987 and 1988 he performed his research at MIT, Cambridge. Mass. U.S.A. He received a Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences fellowship in 1988, followed by a NWO PIONIER award in 1996. In 1995 he received a Shell Award. He is a member of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen and serves on the standing committee for earth and life sciences of the Royal Academy of Sciences. He recently became the interim scientific director of the Towards BioSolar Cells consortium, a recent initiative of the ministry of agriculture, nature and food safety, where 6 universities and 3 top institutes combine their efforts for harnessing solar energy for the production of clean fuel.
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