Mr Thomas Kock
RESEARCH:
Thomas Kock is a PhD student at the LUMC and the Supramolecular and Biomaterials Chemistry (SBC) group at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, where he is working on the further development of the use of graphene in cryo-EM and liquid phase electron microscopy (LP-EM) for the study of biological systems. His interests lie in structural biology and nanotechnology and the projects he is working on combine these two fields. They entail the CVD growth of graphene, the development of techniques for more reproducible graphene liquid cell fabrication and using this platform to answer biological questions with cryo- and LP-EM.
CURRICULUM VITAE:
Thomas studied Life Science & Technology at Delft University of Technology and Leiden University and obtained a Master’s degree in Life Science & Technology from Leiden University. For his first master’s project, Thomas interned in the Macromolecular Biochemistry group of Marcellus Ubbink, where he studied two paramagnetic probes, which can be used for the study of proteins using NMR. With this project, Thomas contributed to a publication in Angewandte Chemie. His second project was in the Schneider lab, where he studied the noise characteristics of silicon based nanoporous membranes. In 2020, he started his PhD in the SBC Group at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, supervised by Grégory Schneider, Alexander Kros and Thomas Sharp.
Groups:
Sharp Lab / BioNanoPatterning
