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Gert studied biochemistry at the university of Utrecht, The Netherlands and got his PhD in 1983 at the agricultural university of Wageningen, The Netherlands. His PhD project was the study of the assembly process of plant virusses using NMR, EPR, etc. He post-doc-ed in Purdue, Indiana, USA on the Xray structure of the common cold virus, and in Groningen, The Netherlands where he worked on several structures while starting the WHAT IF project. Since 1989 he works at the EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany, where he continued working on (and with) the WHAT IF program.
In the summer of 1999 he took up a position at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands where he continued the projects started at the EMBL, and added several new projects, mainly in the area of data-mining, and the application of bioinformatics in biomedical research.
In 2007 he moved his entire department from the science faculty to the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. This brought him closer to the main users of bioinformatics in the twenty first century: the biomedical life science researchers.
Six years later the bureaucrazy of the medical centre got under his skin and Gert will therefore retire and move to a tropical island in 2018.
His main topics of present interest are: