Sven Hennig

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Experience

• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Organic Chemistry (9 yrs 3 mos)
  • Associate Professor & Head of Crystallography
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

    - managing scientific projects in the area of transcription modulations & protein engineering - supervision of students (Ba.S., Ma.S., PhDs) & PostDocs - teaching at the VU - building and managing the VU crystallography unit - managing internal and external structural biology projects - structure determination for small molecules, proteins, complexes

  • Assistant Professor & Head of Crystallography
    May 2017 - Sep 2023 · 6 yrs 5 mos

• Co-Founder at incircular
  Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Group Leader at Chemical Genomics Centre of the Max Planck Society
  May 2012 - Apr 2017 · 5 yrs

  - budget and personal responsibility - scientific project management - supervision graduate and undergraduate students - teaching within the Technical University of Dortmund "Chemical Biology"

• PostDoc & DAAD Fellow at Western Australian Institute for Medical Research - WAIMR
  Apr 2010 - Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  - Laboratory Management & Organization - Project Management for my own project - budget responsibility of a "Young Investigator Grant" - supervision of undergraduate students

• PostDoc at Chemical Genomics Centre
  Apr 2009 - Apr 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

  - High Throughout Screening in collaboration with Screening Facilities (organization & execution of different screening projects) - Validation of initial screening hit compunds (running and maintenance of the Biacore equipment) - establishment of a homogenous fluorescent screening assay for bimolecular stabilization applicable for usage in industry