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Maarten Danial Polymers Laboratory BSc, MSc birth date: 04.01.1982 nationality: Dutch web site: http://lp.epfl.ch BIOGRAPHY October 2006-present PhD student, Polymers Lab (LP), Materials Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland under the supervision of Prof. Harm-Anton Klok. September 2006 Master of Science graduation in molecular sciences with specialization physical chemistry (cum laude) March 2006-August 2006 Internship at the Polymers Lab, Lausanne, Switzerland. August 2005-February 2006 Master thesis in Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen, The Netherlands. August 2005-November 2005 Research assistant Agrotechnology and Food Innovations bv, Wageningen, The Netherlands. November 2005-May 2006 Master thesis in Biochemistry, Wageningen, The Netherlands PUBLICATIONS M. Danial, H.-A. Klok, W. Norde, M. A. Cohen Stuart. Complex Coacervate Core Micelles with a Lysozyme-Modified Corona. (2007) Langmuir 23, 8003-8009. B. Apostolovic, M. Danial, H.-A. Klok. Coiled coils: Attractive protein folding motifs for the fabrication of self-assembled, responsive and bioactive materials. (2010), Chem. Soc. Rev. 39, 3541-3575. M. I. Gibson, M. Danial, H.-A. Klok. Sequentially Modified, Polymer-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticle Libraries: Convergent Synthesis and Aggregation Behavior. (2011), ACS Comb. Sci. 13, 286–297. N. K. Singha, M. I. Gibson, B. P. Koiry, M. Danial, and H.-A. Klok. Side-Chain Peptide-Synthetic Polymer Conjugates via Tandem “Ester-Amide/Thiol–Ene” Post-Polymerization Modification of Poly(pentafluorophenyl methacrylate) Obtained Using ATRP. (2011), Biomacromolecules, 12, 2908–2913. M. Danial. Combating HIV Type 1 with Peptide - Synthetic Polymer Conjugates. PhD thesis, Lausanne, 2011.

Skills Polymerizations by free radical and reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) mechanisms Microwave-assisted Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis Preparative and analytical reverse phase high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) Circular dichroism Differential scanning calorimetry on protein solutions Steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy Fluorescence (cross-)correlation spectroscopy Dynamic and static light scattering on protein and polymer solutions Photography