Photodynamics of Light Harvesting Systems
Ruijter, Ward Piet Frans de
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Ruijter, W. P. F. de. (2005, November 7). Photodynamics of Light Harvesting
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Ward de Ruijter was born on April 5th 1977 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In 1995 he graduated from
secondary education at the Utrechts Stedelijk Gymnasium. In august of that year he started his stud-ies in Physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. As part of his studstud-ies, he participated in a project on fluorescence lifetime imaging in the department of Biophysics at Utrecht University and a project on two-photon excitation microscopy at Philips Research in Eindhoven. He performed the work for his masters thesis at the University of Florida, USA. There, he worked on the growth of smooth layers of antimony and germanium on silicon. In january 2001 he received his MSc degree. From 2001 through 2005 he was a PhD student at the Biophysics Section of the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION), Leiden University. Under the supervision of T.J. Aartsma he carried out the re-search that is presented in this thesis. He presented results of this work in oral presentations at the 13th International Congress of Photosynthesis (Montréal, Canada) and at the conference on
Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors in Photosynthetic Organisms (Passau, Germany), as well as by numer-ous poster presentations at international conferences and workshops. He has attended a spring school on Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Single Objects (Les Houches, France). His teaching activities included a physics laboratory course for first year students.
