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Brief curriculum vitae. |
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. From 1989-1999 he worked 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 built-up the CMBI. At the CMBI Gert continued working on fundamental and applied aspects of protein structure (homology modelling, structure quality, visualization, molecular dynamics, ligand interactions) and of information technology (data-mining, information systems). The 2007 move of the CMBI from the science faculty to the Medical Centre of the Radboud University allowed for more emphasis on the application of bioinformatics in biomedical research; this resulted in the design and implementation of a series of widely used products like:
Many of Gert's students have used software developed in the CMBI to start their own companies. Elmar Krieger runs YASARA GmbH; Henk-Jan Joosten runs Bio-Prodict BV; Chris Spronk runs several companies on NMR consultancy, on educational video design, etc.
In 2005-2012 Gert was deeply involved in several European projects directed toward bioinformatics data and software interoperability. The concepts worked out in these EU projects are deeply embedded in most of his recent software products.
In 2013 the Radboudumc bureaucrazy caught up with Gert and he decided to finish all on-going projects and retire. The latter will happen in 2018 after which he will move to a tropical island (from where he will maintain WHAT IF, WHAT_CHECK, and the PDB-facilities).
Gert is the author of more than 250 refereed articles of which dozens have been cited more than a hundred times. He has been coordinator of a series of EU grants, most recently of the EMBRACE NoE for software and data interoperability in bioinformatics. He has been a teacher in a series of UNIDO, EMBO, EMBL and EMBnet courses, and he gives about a dozen invited seminars each year.
In 2017 Gert made this document that overviews his publication record.
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