Gerald De Haan MSc, PhD

Gerald de Haan received his MSc (1990) and Ph.D. (1995) from the University of Groningen. As a graduate student, he was employed by the University of Cologne, working on the regulation of blood cell production by growth factors. He became a postdoc at the University of Kentucky with Gary Van Zant where he worked on stem cell aging and returned to the Netherlands as a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He established his own lab at the Department of Cell Biology, where he was appointed full professor in 2005. He was awarded a VICI grant by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research in 2007. From October 2016 Gerald holds the position of Scientific Director of the European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing.