Mark van der Giezen

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Mark van der Giezen is Professor of Biological Chemistry, Centre for Organelle Research, University of Stavanger, Norway. He holds Dutch nationality and is married with three children.^[1]

Early life and education

Van der Giezen was born on 24 May 1968. His primary and secondary education was in Assen, The Netherlands. He studied biology, with graduate-level molecular genetics and immunology, at the University of Groningen, remaining to obtain a PhD in 1997 in mathematical and natural sciences, supervised by Rudolf Prins, in the Department of Microbiology. His PhD thesis was entitled The evolutionary origin of fungal hydrogenosomes.^[2]

Career

From October 1997 to March 2002, van der Giezen was an EMBO Fellow in the group of Martin Embley at the Department of Zoology of the Natural History Museum of London, UK.

From April 2002 to October 2004, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Jorge Tovar at the School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

In November 2004 van der Giezen became lecturer in microbiology in the School of Biological Sciences,

In September 2007 he moved to the University of Exeter, UK, as senior lecturer in evolutionary biochemistry, becoming associate professor of evolutionary biochemistry in January 2019.

In August 2019 van der Giezen moved to Norway, and to the post of Professor of Biological Chemistry in the University of Stavanger.

Scientific achievements

Van der Giezen has published extensively in his field of research^[3] and made over 50 contributions as external seminars and lectures at international scientific meetings.

Van der Giezen investigates adaptations of microbial

Van der Giezen's research has demonstrated that several unusual organelles are in fact mitochondria.

• 2018 Senior Fellow of the
  Higher Education Academy
  .
• 2014 Elected Fellow of
  the Linnean Society of London
  .
• 2009 Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Protein Research, University of Osaka, Japan.
• 2002 – present. Seven publications selected by the
  Faculty of 1000
  with an average score above ‘exceptional’.
• 1998 Fellow of the
  European Molecular Biology Organisation
  .

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