Prof. Daniela A. Wilson

Prof. Dr. Daniela A. Wilson received her Ph.D. degree in 2007 with "summa cum laude" distinction from "Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania in the field of liquid crystalline materials. During her PhD research, she obtained two fellowships to continue her studies abroad in Japan at the Hyogo University in Himeji and in the UK at the University of Hull. She then moved to the US at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in the group of prof. V. Percec for her postdoctoral studies where she worked on several topics in the field of supramolecular chemistry (dendrimers, Janus dendrimers, dendrons, and dendronized polymers), polymer chemistry, and catalysis. In Philadelphia she contributed to the discovery of dendrimersomes, self-assembling vesicles formed from amphiphilic dendrimers. In 2012 she was awarded the prestigious ERC StG to start her independent academic career on self-assembled stomatocyte nanomotors. She developed further synthetic motile systems for biomedical applications. She is currently full professor holding the chair of Systems Chemistry Department at the Institute for Molecules and Materials, Nijmegen the Netherlands and theme leader of Nanomedicine in the Radboud Institute for Life Science (RIMLS) Nijmegen, The Netherlands, a university-wide role spanning from chemistry through translation research into the hospital. Her research interests focus on the design of intelligent, self-propelled, and self-guided supramolecular assemblies and their communication and interaction as next-generation nanoengineered delivery systems.