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Martin Jonikas: “Having a Diversity of Backgrounds Makes Us More Creative and Productive”
Martin Jonikas grew up in France and in California, the child of a geophysics professor and a computer programmer. He notes that he had “always been just curious about how things work from an engineering perspective,” and from a young age his parents encouraged him to explore these curiosities. He credits his parents for nurturing his interest in engineering by providing him with educational toys, tools, and mentors to help him explore his passion for machines and how they move.
The most amazing machines on the Earth are living organisms.
Martin’s passion for the physical properties of the world and machines compelled him to found a robotics team when he was in high school, and to pursue an undergraduate degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in aerospace engineering. But he credits a microbiology course, required for him to graduate, with changing the shape of his career.
“I was forced to take a molecular biology class, which was taught by a really inspiring professor named JoAnne Stubbe,” Martin said. “She opened my eyes to the reality that the most amazing machines on the Earth are living organisms. That inspired me to change my path and pursue a PhD in molec
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Laureate of the Heineken Prizes
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Trijntje van AltenaT+The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences to Professor Jaap Sinninghe Damsté, head of department at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Professor of Organic Geochemistry at Utrecht University (Netherlands).
Professor Sinninghe Damsté received the prize for his tremendous contributions to the discovery and development of ‘chemical fossiles’, which help us reconstruct the history of the earth’s biosphere.
Researcher
Jaap Sinninghe Damsté was born in Baarn (Netherlands) on 1 January He commenced a study in Chemical Engineering at the Technical University Delft (Netherlands), but gradually became more interested in fields like biology and geology.
His Ph.D. research brought all of these fields together. In he graduated in Delft on a geochemical study into the origins of organic sulfur present in crude oil.
Sinninghe Damsté became a researcher for the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) in Den Burg (Netherlands). Using a ‘Pioneer’ grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), he initiated a programme called ‘Molecular paleontology of marine sediments’