Thomas Hermans

Group leader in Systems Chemistry & Ferrohydrodynamics. Co-founder of Qfluidics (2019) and CelliXio (2025). Young Scientist at World Economic Forum (2019).

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

Thomas M. Hermans (TMH) is Senior Research Professor at IMDEA Nanociencia (Madrid, Spain) since December 2023. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering with Prof. E. "Bert" W. Meijer (TU/e, Netherlands, 2006-2010). After a postdoc with Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski at Northwestern University (USA, 2010-2013), he started his independent group in 2013 at the I.S.I.S. Institute of Supramolecular Chemistry and Engineering (France, 2013-2023). Selected honors include: Prix Guy Ourrison (2018), ERC Starting grant (2018), World Economic Forum (elected “among the brightest 21 researchers world wide” 2019)[1], IUPAC Periodic Table of Younger Chemists: elected as element “Francium” (2019), Prix Forscheurs Jean-Marie Lehn (2022), Prix Christiane Dietrich-Buchecker (2022), Institut Universitaire de France – Junior chair (2022), ERC Consolidator grant (2023), The Netherlands Scholar Award for Supramolecular Chemistry (2023), Spanish ATRAE grant (2023). [1] https://www.weforum.org/press/2019/06/unveiled-the-brightest-young-scientific-minds-in-the-world/

Experience

  • Senior Research Professor at IMDEA Nanociencia
    Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Co-Founder at Qfluidics
    Sep 2018 - Apr 2026 · 7 yrs 8 mos

    www.qfluidics.com

  • Co-Founder at CELLIXIO
    May 2025 - Jan 2026 · 9 mos

    www.cellixio.com

  • Directeur laboratoire de systèmes complexes hors équilibre at Université de Strasbourg
    Mar 2013 - Dec 2023 · 10 yrs 10 mos

    See www.hermanslab.com for more info.

  • HFSP Postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University
    Jul 2010 - Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Working on cancerous cell motility, microfluidics and out of equilibrium self-assembly.