Jörg MatysikPrinciple investigator and assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at the Leiden University. His research group aims to understand functional principles of highly optimized systems found in nature. To this end, the group develops and applies optical solid-state NMR methods. | |  | | Jörg Matysik is born in 1964 in Essen (Germany). Initially, Matysik went for vocational training as Chemielaborant in the Bergbau-Forschung (Institute for Coal Mining Research) in Essen-Kray before he studied Chemistry at the Universität-Gesamthochschule in Essen where he obtained his Chemie-Diplom (1992) in the group of Prof. Bernhard Schrader, working with Fourier-Transform (FT) Raman spectroscopy on tetrapyrroles. For his PhD (1995), he investigated phytochrome with FT-Raman spectroscopy at the Max-Planck-Institut für Stahlenchemie in Mülheim an der Ruhr in the group of Prof. Peter Hildebrandt in the department headed by Prof. Kurt Schaffner. As JSPS and Humboldt fellow he worked with Raman spectroscopy on heme proteins in Prof. Teizo Kitagawa’s group at the Insitute for Molecular Sciences in Okazaki (Japan). Since 1997 he is at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry, first as Marie-Curie fellow and Casimir-Ziegler awardee in the solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) group of Prof. Huub de Groot. In the meanwhile, he built up his own research group on optical NMR. He is a recipient of the Jonge Chemici award (2001), the Vidi award (2003) of the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). Matysik is member of the International Spin-Chemistry Committee and of the Advisory Board of Applied Magnetic Resonance. He is vice-chair of COST action TD1103 on hyperpolarization techniques. |
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