Background
Alexander van Oudenaarden was born 19 March 1970, in Zuidland, a small town in the Dutch province of South Holland.
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Alexander Oudenaarden
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Education
He studied at the Delft University of Technology, where he obtained a Masters of Science in Materials Science and Engineering (cum laude) and a Masters of Science in Physics in 1993, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (cum laude) in 1998 in experimental condensed matter physics, under the supervision of Professor J.E. Mooij.
Career
He is a leading researcher in systems biology and synthetic biology, specialising in stochasticity in gene networks and actin dynamics. In 1998 he moved to Stanford, where he was a postdoctoral researcher in the departments of Biochemistry and of Microbiology & Immunology, working on force generation of polymerising actin filaments in the Theriot lab and a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Chemistry, working on Micropatterning of supported phospholipid bi-layers in the Boxer laboratory In 2000 he joined the department of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor, was tenured in 2004 and is now a full professor
In 2012 Alexander became the director of the Hubrecht Institute as the successor of Hans Clevers.
Achievements
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In 2012 he started as director of the Hubrecht Institute and was awarded an European Research Council Advanced Investigator award and New World Order VICI award. In 2014 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He received the Andries Miedema Award (best Doctor of Philosophy-research in the field of condensed matter physics in the Netherlands) for his thesis on "Quantum vortices and quantum interference effects in circuits of small tunnel junctions". In 2001 he received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, and was both an Alfred Sloan Research Fellow and the Keck Career Development Career Development Professor in Biomedical Engineering.
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Nationality
Netherlands