Sijbren Otto
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-0259-5637
Brief curriculum vitae
Sijbren (born 1971) received his M.Sc. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees cum laude from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He worked on physical organic chemistry in aqueous solutions in the group of Prof. Jan B. F. N. Engberts. In 1998 he moved to the United States for a year as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Steven L. Regen (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) investigating synthetic systems mediating ion transport through lipid bilayers. In 1999 he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to the University of Cambridge where he worked for two years with Prof. Jeremy K. M. Sanders on dynamic combinatorial libraries.
Sijbren started his independent research career in 2001 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the UK and accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011 and Full Professor in 2016. He directed the Chemistry MSc degree program at the University of Groningen from 2014-2019.
Sijbren was awarded ERC starting (2010) and advanced (2017) grants from the EU and a VICI grant from NWO in the Netherlands and is one of six main applicants of the prestigious national gravitation program on Functional Molecular Systems (FMS). He is joint editor-in-chief of the re-launched Journal of Systems Chemistry and Chaired COST Action CM1304 on the subject of Systems Chemistry uniting more than 95 European research groups. He is the chair of the 2020 Gordon Research Conference on Systems Chemistry.
Honors and awards
1994 M.Sc. Cum laude
1998 Ph.D. Cum laude
1999 Marie Curie Fellowship, University of Cambridge, UK
2000 Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK
2001 Royal Society University Research Fellowship, University of Cambridge, UK
2005 Royal Society Merit Increment
2011 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
2013 NWO VICI grant
2013 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2013 Visiting Professor, University of Strasbourg, France
2017 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant
2018 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Supramolecular Chemistry Award (link)
Extended curriculum vitae (PDF)
For a list of Sijbren Otto's publications, you may visit the Publications page.
Contact details
Sijbren Otto
Professor of Systems Chemistry
University of Groningen
Centre for Systems Chemistry
Stratingh Institute
Nijenborgh 4
9747 AG Groningen
The Netherlands
room 51.15.213
tel +31 (0)50 363 8639
tel +31 (0)50 363 8569 (direct) / 6933 (secretary)
fax +31 (0)50 363 4296
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