Gijsje Koenderink

Gijsberta Hendrika (Gijsje) Koenderink (born 1974)[1] is a Dutch biophysicist whose research investigates the biomechanics of cells and their substructures, and the use of lipids in nanobiotechnology.

She is a professor in the Bionanoscience Department in the Delft University of Technology.

[2] Koenderink earned a master's degree in physical chemistry at Utrecht University in 1998, and completed her Ph.D. there in 2003.

After postdoctoral study at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Harvard University, she worked for AMOLF, a research institute in Amsterdam, from 2006 to 2019, heading the Biological Soft Matter group and (beginning in 2014) the Living Matter Department there.

[2][3] In 2021, TU Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems gave Koenderink their Dresden Physics Prize.