Peter Zijlstra
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Peter Zijlstra is an associate professor of Molecular Plasmonics in the research group for Molecular Biosensing for Medical Diagnostics, a joint group of the TU/e departments of Applied Physics and Biomedical Engineering. He develops approaches for single-molecule sensing with the aim to study individual biomolecules in complex environments. In particular, his research focuses on single-molecule detection using plasmonic and fluorescent approaches. His research group combines concepts from single-molecule microscopy, plasmonics, super-resolution miicroscopy and modelling to develop novel sensing concepts and study biomolecular interactions.
Visit the group website (www.molecular-plasmonics.nl) and the Marie Curie ITN SuperCol (www.supercol.eu) for more information.
I push the limits of sensitivity and resolution, to make the invisible visible.”
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Peter Zijlstra studied Applied Physics at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands), where he obtained his MSc degree in 2005. In 2009, he received his PhD from Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia), where he studied the photothermal properties of single plasmonic nanoparticles with applications in optical data storage. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Prof. Michel Orrit at Leiden University (The Netherlands) he moved to Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, The Netherlands). He is currently an associate professor in the research group Molecular Biosensing at the department of Applied Physics. He is a core member of the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems at TU/e, wherein groups from different disciplines (chemistry, physics, biomedical engineering, mathematics) collaborate on multidisciplinary research topics.
Recent Publications
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Swayandipta Dey,Mathias Dolci,Peter Zijlstra
Single-Molecule Optical Biosensing
ACS Physical Chemistry Au (2023) -
Annelies Dillen,Claudia Scarpellini,Woud Daenen,Seppe Driesen,Peter Zijlstra,Jeroen Lammertyn
Integrated Signal Amplification on a Fiber Optic SPR Sensor Using Duplexed Aptamers
ACS Sensors (2023) -
Roger Riera Brillas,Emmanouil Archontakis,Glenn A.O. Cremers,Tom F.A. de Greef,Peter Zijlstra,Lorenzo Albertazzi
Precision and accuracy of receptor quantification on synthetic and biological surfaces using DNA-PAINT
ACS Sensors (2023) -
Emmanouil Archontakis,Linlin Deng,Peter Zijlstra,Anja R.A. Palmans,Lorenzo Albertazzi
Spectrally PAINTing a Single Chain Polymeric Nanoparticle at Super-Resolution
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022) -
Yuyang Wang,Paul E.D. Soto Rodriguez,Laura Woythe,Samuel Sánchez,Josep Samitier,Peter Zijlstra,Lorenzo Albertazzi
Multicolor Super-Resolution Microscopy of Protein Corona on Single Nanoparticles
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2022)
Ancillary Activities
- associate editor npj Biosensing, Springer Nature
- consultancy, Progenika Biopharma S.A.