Daniela Kraft MA, PhD

Daniela Kraft is a full professor of soft and biological matter at the Huygens-Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She obtained her Ph.D. cum laude from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Willem Kegel. Supported by a Rubicon grant, she then joined the Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2013, she moved to Leiden, where she established her own group. Her research focuses on self-assembly in biological and soft matter systems, ranging from anisotropic colloidal particles to lipid membranes, emulsions, and viruses. Dr. Kraft has been awarded a VENI and VIDI fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, an ERC starting grant, the Paper of the Year Award 2017 from Biophysical Journal, and the 2021 Emerging Leader Award of the Journal of Physics: Materials.