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Volkert van Steijn

Dr. ir. at Delft University of Technology

Areas of expertise

  • - Transport phenomena
  • - Fluid dynamics
  • - Lab-on-a-chip and organs-on-chip

About me

Volkert van Steijn works as an associate professor and leads a research group that has the ambition to contribute to solving problems in the area of health and life sciences through the development of lab/organ-on-a-chip technology. His group hereby builds on a sound expertise in fluid dynamics and transport phenomena at the micro-scale. Before joining the Department of Chemical Engineering, at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at TU Delft, Volkert worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard.

Volkert currently is the director of the bachelor program Molecular Science and Technology. This program between TU Delft and Leiden University provides students with a broad base in chemistry by marrying the molecular concepts by chemists and the technological concepts by chemical engineers. Through this combination, graduates are prepared for a working life on a planet on which solutions to the grand societal challenges in energy, health, and so on, clearly require a profound understanding of chemistry and chemical engineering.

The most rewarding aspect of my working life, by far, is to see a student grow, as a scholar, and especially as a person. I feel proud of being part of an environment in which our students are facilitated and stimulated to grow and rise above themselves. I am excited about this Pre-University Chemistry MOOC and hope it inspires you to further grow into the area of chemical sciences!