AMOLF postdoc Mirjam Leunissen receives Minerva prize from FOM

The FOM foundation has decided to award the Minerva prize 2010 to dr. Mirjam Leunissen for her publication about controlled self-organisation of small particles by means of special DNA structures.

The FOm/v advisory board unanimously chose the article 'Switchable self-protected attractions in DNA-functionalized colloids' from 19 entries. Leunissen published her article during her postdoc research at the New York University. The Minerva prize rewards the best scientific publication by a female researcher about a physics subject in the past two years. On January 19th, 2010, the Minerva prize will be awarded to Leunissen at Physics@FOM in Veldhoven.

Leunissen has worked as a postdoc at AMOLF and the University of Cambridge since September 2009. She works on computer simulations and processing the results of computer models in prof. dr. Daan Frenkel research group 'Computational Chemistry'