prof. dr. D.J. (Dirk-Jan) Scheffers

SCIENTIFIC CAREER:

2001: Ph.D. University of Groningen, the Netherlands; thesis: Polymerization of the bacterial cell division protein FtsZ

2001 – 2004: Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK

2004 – 2008: VENI Postdoctoral fellow, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2007: Visiting scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden (3 months).

2008 – 2010: Investigador auxiliar (PI), Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

2010 – 2015: Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Groningen, the Netherlands; VIDI fellowship NWO

2015 - 2023: Associate Professor of Bacterial Cell Biology (tenured)

2023 - present: Professor of Bacterial Cell Biology