The next RED School will be March 16-22, 2025
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Here’s the team of teachers in charge of this year’s courses, with whom you’ll have the opportunity to interact
Systems, chemistry , de-novo life, self-replication, coacervates, proto-metabolism, darwinian evolution, emergence
Sijbren Otto received his M.Sc. and Ph.D.degrees cum laude from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He worked on physical organic chemistry with Prof. Jan B. F. N. Engberts. In 1998 he moved to the United States for a year as a postdoctoral researcher to work with Prof. Steven L. Regen at Lehigh University investigating synthetic systems mediating ion transport through lipid bilayers. In 1999 he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to the University of Cambridge, UK, where he worked for two years with Prof. Jeremy K. M. Sanders on dynamic combinatorial libraries. Sijbren started his independent research career in 2001 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the UK and moved to the University of Groningen in 2009 where he is currently Full Professor. Sijbren was awarded ERC Starting, Advanced and Synergy grants and a VICI grant from NWO in the Netherlands. He co-founded the series of Gordon conferences on Systems Chemistry and chaired COST Action CM1304 on the subject of Systems Chemistry, uniting more than 95 European research groups. He is currently coordinator of the DarChemDN Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network on the topic of Darwinian Chemistry.