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Research experience and degrees 01.10.2021-now - NIZO, Team leader Advanced Analytics and project manager 01.03.11 - now - University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands), assistant professor (until Nov 2016), associate professor 01.2018 - 07.2018 - sabbatical at UC Berkeley, California, USA, laboratory of Randy Schekman, funded by Fulbright and Alzheimer Nederland. 01.10.08 - 28.02.11 - Switch Laboratory, VIB, Free University of Brussels (VUB) (Brussels, Belgium), professor/team leader biophysics for neurodegenerative diseases. 02.10.07 - 30.09.08 - Switch Laboratory, VIB, Free University of Brussels (VUB) (Brussels, Belgium), postdoctoral research fellow 03.10.05 - 01.10.07: MRC - LMB (UK), postdoctoral research fellow, Neurobiology 15.12.00 - 23.09.05: University of Wageningen (NL), PhD, Protein Biophysics 15.04.00 - 13.12.00: University of York (UK), Researcher microscopy, structure of polymer gels 01.10.98 - 14.04.00: United Biscuits R&D (UK), Food Technologist 01.09.97 - 16.09.98: University of Huddersfield (UK), MSc Nutrition and Food Management 01.09.93 - 20.08.97: Hogeschool van Amsterdam (NL), BSc Nutrition and Dietetics Doctoral Thesis Broersen K (2005) Fundamentals of unfolding, refolding and aggregation of food proteins Patent de Jongh HHJ, Broersen K (23/12/2005) Controlled gelation of protein mixture. Patent no. 05112947.6 - European Patent Office Specialties: Biophysics, neurodegenerative diseases, protein (mis)folding, aggregation, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease.