Bert Poolman | |
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Born | Bert Poolman 8 May 1959 |
Nationality | Dutch |
Alma mater | University of Groningen |
Known for | Membrane biology, bioenergetics, membrane transport |
Spouse | Heleen Stevenson |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry, biophysics, microbiology, synthetic biology |
Institutions | University of Groningen, 1989–present |
Thesis | Energy transducing processes in growing and starving lactic acid streptococcci (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Wil Konings and Hans Veldkamp |
Website | www |
Berend (Bert) Poolman is a Dutch biochemist, as specialist in bioenergetics of microorganisms and membrane transport. He is a professor of Biochemistry at the University of Groningen[1] and an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 2009.[2] Poolman is a pioneer in the field of bottom-up synthetic biology, that is, the construction from molecular building blocks of functional metabolic networks and autonomously operating functional systems, which are typical of living cells. Poolman is a lecturer in membrane biology and synthetic biology.