Kerensa Broersen-Nutma
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Biography
Dr. Broersen completed her doctorate in the field of protein aggregation at Wageningen University in The Netherlands in 2005. After her postdoctoral study at the MRC-LMB in the UK, she joined the Free University of Brussels (VUB)/Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) in 2007. Here she headed a research team that studied the molecular mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease. This led to the discovery of molecular pathways of a number of risk factors that affect Alzheimer’s disease pathobiology. Subsequently, she joined the Nanobiophysics Group at the University of Twente/MIRA Institute in The Netherlands as an assistant professor investigating further the impact of protein structures on human health with her team.