Ans Rekers

Ans Rekers works at the Career Advice Centre of the University of Amsterdam (www.uva.nl/promovendi). She works mainly with PhD students. This work includes individual coaching and training. The PhD training have may different topics. Part of the training is of course the Career training. She has worked with many PhD students from different research institutes.

Jan van Maarseveen

Jan van Maarseveen was born in Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1963. He studied chemistry at theUniversity of Nijmegen and received his PhD at this university with Prof. Binne Zwanenburg and Dr. Hans W. Scheeren in 1994. In the same year, he joined Solvay-Pharmaceuticals (Weesp, The Netherlands) as a group leader in the Medicinal Chemistry Department. He was appointed at the University of Amsterdam in 1999 where he is now associate professor. In 2004 he briefly joined the group of Prof. Rheza Ghadiri at The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, USA) to develop new methods for cyclic peptide synthesis using click chemistry. His current research interests are the development of novel synthetic methodology to enable difficult peptide cyclizations, homogeneous catalysis and the combination of organic synthesis and biology. He is also heavily involved in teaching in both the chemistry and life sciences curriculae and in giving tailor-made courses in the chemical industry.