Rate My Professor Cees Dekker

Since shifting to nanobiology around 2000, Dekker's research has centered on single-molecule biophysics, including DNA translocation through solid-state nanopores, chromatin organization via loop extrusion by condensin and cohesin complexes, bacterial cell division on chips, nuclear pore complexes, and bottom-up construction of synthetic cells. He has published over 300 papers, achieving an h-index of 122 and over 85,000 citations. Notable publications include "Real-time imaging of DNA loop extrusion by condensin" (Science, 2018), "DNA-loop extruding condensin complexes can traverse one another" (Nature, 2020), "Paving the Way to Single-Molecule Protein Sequencing" (Nature Nanotechnology, 2018), and "Solid-state nanopores, a new single-molecule tool for biophysics and biotechnology" (Nature Nanotechnology, 2007). His contributions have earned major awards such as the 2003 Spinoza Prize, 2001 Agilent Europhysics Prize, 2012 ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize, 2017 NanoSmat Prize, three ERC Advanced Grants (2009, 2015, 2020), and knighthood as Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2014. Dekker is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Institute of Physics.