My research interests have focused on protein folding, misfolding, and conformational dynamics studied using a wide range of advanced biophysical probing and imaging tools, which my team often also designed, engineered and developed. We have also explored using nanophotonic tools to manipulate photophysics of visible fluorescent proteins in collaboration with Willem Vos. Our research has been funded generously by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Dutch funding agencies FOM and STW, national nanotechnology programs NanoNed and NanoNextNL, the European Union, and other institutions. Before I chose to focus on creating an inspiring academic environment where others could develop themselves to their fullest potential, I had the privilege of supervising ~ 33 PhD students and 18 postdoctoral fellows. My academic publications can be found on my ORCID page. If you’re interested in things like bibliometrics, you can visit my Google Scholar page with quite respectable numbers, although I’d argue that the true impact comes from educating and training students and scholars.