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The realization of the work presented in this thesis was only possible thanks to invaluable contributions and support of many people.
First of all, I would like to express my gratitude towards Frank for giving me the opportunity to work in his group and providing this extremely pleasant and creative environment. Your ideas and stimulating discussions were fundamental for this project. Also much appreciated that thanks to you I could do part of my work in collaboration with Xeltis, allowing me to keep one foot in the industry during the PhD studies.
Big thanks to Anita for your invaluable support and guidance. Also for reminding me time to time to focus towards finishing the thesis, rather than diving into new ideas. Same holds for Carlijn and Cees, special thanks for your mentoring during the last phase of my thesis.
I would like to thank all the members of my Doctoral committee. Frans van de Vosse, thanks for spontaneously agreeing to be a committee member. Gerrit, working and discussions with you were always a pleasure. Simon, in 2003 you and your group were the first “customer” of my sca olds. And Natalie, it goes unsaid I wouldn’t be able to achieve this without you. Thanks mucho for all your support, wisdom and the chances you created for me, right from the start in Georgies.
I would like to express my gratitude to a few more key persons who laid the fundamentals towards this thesis. Han Meijer, thanks for bringing some of my electrospun tubular sca olds from my time in Zürich to Franks group. Their performance and your assistance helped tremendously with my start in Frank’s group. Paul Smith, you have been at -or even the- origin of this thesis. Thanks for basically fire and hire me as well as organize the next steps leading to today, within a beers length in Georgies. Another crucial beer was with Theo Kreouzis in Queen Marry University. Theo, you were instrumental to my Master Degree in London.
None of the work presented would have been possible without the help of all the collaborators. Thank you for the fruitful collaborations, assistance, discussions etc.
Also to my colleagues at IME Technologies, your patience, understanding and giving me space and time to finish this thesis is much appreciated.
Big thanks goes to the people helping me writing this thesis. Lieke thanks a lot for proofreading my thesis. Bart, happy that I could teach you some Dutch with my Dutch summary, but I very much appreciate it that you made it a masterpiece. Vero, Manu, Andrea and the organization Lia Rumantscha, I’m deeply grateful for the time you put in translating the summary into
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