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Dirk Aarts studied chemistry at the University of Utrecht and completed his PhD in 2005 at the Van’t Hoff Laboratory for Physical Colloidal Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Henk Lekkerkerker. He subsequently moved to the Ecole Normale Supérieure as a Marie Curie Fellow, joining the group of Professor Daniel Bonn. In 2007, he took a lectureship in the Physical Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, also combining it with a Studentship at Christ Church. He became a full professor in 2013. Between 2015 and 2018, he served as the coordinator of the European Innovative Training Network (ITN-ETN) called ‘DiStruc’, which coordinated 5 academic and 4 industrial nodes with a total of 15 PhD students. Dirk Aarts has won several prizes and awards, including the Andries Miedema prize, the IOP Liquids and Complex Fluids Group Young Scientist Award, and the Martinus van Marum award from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences. He is currently taking an administrative role at Christ Church.
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