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Dr. Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts Postdoctoral Researcher Biological and Soft Matter FOM Institute AMOLF Phone: +31 (0) 623687236 Email: [email protected] Web: amolf.nl/people/Anders-Aufderhorst-Roberts Personal Details Date and place of birth: 02-07-1984, Glasgow (UK) Nationality: British/German Dual Nationality Family status: Married Academic Appointments Current Postdoctoral Researcher Biological and Soft Matter . Research group of Professor Gijsje Koenderink FOM Institute AMOLF The Netherlands . Characterisation of nonlinear mechanics of vimentin intermediate filament networks . Funded through FOM collaborative grant: “Marginal Soft Matter: Leveraging the Mechanics of Responsive Networks” 2013-2015 Research Associate Molecular and Nanoscale . Research group of Dr. Simon Connell University of . Characterisation of phase separation in lipid bilayers UK through atomic force microscopy . Funded through EPSRC large-scale collaborative grant: “Curvature Asymmetry and Patterning Integrated through all Length Scales” (CAPITALS) . Active research collaborations with University of Leeds (Soft Matter Physics, Chemistry), () and Sao Paulo State University (Bioscience) . Responsible for training, lab maintenance and supervision of students Education 2008-2012 PhD in Physics of Biological and Soft Matter . Research group of Professor Dame University of UK . Microrheological Characterisation of Fmoc Derivative Hydrogels . EPSRC CASE studentship award with Unilever R&D 2003-2008 M.Sci in Physics Molecular and Nanoscale . Upper Second Class Honours (2:1) Physics University of Leeds . Final Year Dissertation Topic: An Optical Analogy of the Aharonov-Bohm Effect . Summer Projects: Pattern Formation of Self-Assembling Colloids, (2007) FTIR Spectroscopic Microscopy of MSG crystals, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2005) FTIR Spectroscopic Microscopy of Brain Tumours in Mice, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2004) . Participated in Scottish Enterprise global entrepreneurs programme involving team-based consultancy and business start-up proposal, 2006 2003 Pre-University Gap Year Kristin School, Auckland . Classroom assistant in mathematics, physics and New Zealand performing arts Awards and Prizes 2016 Finalist, Biotechnology With co-authors. Result will be announced in November 2016 Category, IChemE Global Awards 2015 1st Place Poster Prize Scanning Probe Microscopy, UK Microscience Microscopy Congress 2011 Best Outreach Exhibit “Physics at Work” outreach event, (team-based) 2011 EPSRC/ Parliamentary Highly competitive award for 3-month secondment to UK Office of Science and Parliament: researching and writing a briefing on science Technology Fellowship education 2003 1st Place Speakers Prize Cavendish Laboratory Student Conference 2010 2nd Place Poster Prize Institute of Physics Liquids & Complex Fluids Winter School 2006 Best Business Plan Scottish Enterprise, Encouraging Dynamic Global Entrepeneurs (team-based) 2001 & 2002 German Language Prize

Peer-Reviewed Publications . Baker, D, Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Foster, R, Richardson, P, Cayre, O, Wyss, H, Connell, S.D, Mattsson, K.J.L, "The mechanics of single pNIPAM microgel particles" - Target Journal: Soft Matter (In preparation . Aufderhorst-Roberts, A and Connell, S.D. “Atomic Force Microscopy of Planar Lipid Membranes”, Molecular Membrane Biology (invited review, in preparation) . Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Baker, D, Mattsson, K.J.L and Connell, S.D, “High Resolution Mechanical Structure of Thermoresponsive Microgels”, Target Journal: Nanoscale (in preparation) . Lane, J.S, Bramble, J, Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Richens, J.L, Mather, M, Connell, S and O’Shea, P, “Regulation of membrane microdomain formation via modulation of lipid head group interactions by targeting specific non-covalent molecular forces” (under revision) . Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Chandran, U. and Connell, S.D, “Three Phase Coexistence in Lipid Membranes”, Biophysical Journal (submitted) . Leite, N.B, Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Palma, M.S, Connell, S.D, Ruggiero Neto, J, Beales, P.A, “PE and PS Lipids Synergistically Enhance Membrane Poration by a Peptide with Anticancer Properties”, Biophysical Journal, 109 (5), 936-947, 2015 ★ Selected for Biophysical Journal’s “Best of 2015” . Frith, W.J, Donald, A.M, Adams, D.J and Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, “Gels formed from amino-acid derivatives, their novel rheology as probed by bulk and particle tracking rheological methods”, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 102, 104-111, 2015 . Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Frith, W. J. and Donald A.M, “A microrheological study of hydrogel kinetics and micro-heterogeneity”, The European Physical Journal E, 37 (5), 1-11, 2014 . Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Frith, W. J. and Donald A.M, “Microrheology and Microstructure of Fmoc- Derivative Hydrogels’, Langmuir, 30 (15), 4483-4492, 2014 . Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Charlton, V and Nath C, “STEM education for 14-19 year olds”, POSTnotes, 430, 2013 . Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Frith, W. J. and Donald A.M, “Micro-scale kinetics and heterogeneity of a pH triggered hydrogel”, Soft Matter, 8, pp. 5940-5946, 2012 . Faraday Discussion 143: Soft Nanotechnology, 2009 (oral/written contributions to published discussions) I also write regularly about my own research, that of others and on science policy for popular science magazines, including Infocus Magazine, Laboratory News, and the Cambridge magazine Bluesci. I have also published online articles for Education: Student Voices and Naked Scientists. Conference Contributions “Quantitative Mechanical Characterisation of PNIPAm Microgel Particles” Talk Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Baker, D, Mattsson, K.J.L and Connell, S.D, The Physics of Soft and Biological Matter, Cambridge, UK, 2016 “Force Microscopy of Three-Phase Phospholipid Bilayers” Poster Quantitative Bioimaging, Delft, the Netherlands, 2016 “AFM Characterisation of Structure, Mechanics and Growth Dynamics of Three-Phase Talk Phospholipid Bilayers” SoftComp/ESMI Annual Meeting, Ancona, Italy, 2015 “AFM Reveals Mechanics, Structure and Growth of Three Coexisting Lipid Phases” Poster Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Connell, S.D, Physics of Structural and Dynamical Hierarchy in Soft Matter, Tokyo, Japan, 2015 “AFM Reveals Evidence of Three-Phase Coexistence in Ternary Phospholipid Mixtures” Poster Aufderhorst- Roberts, A, Connell, S.D, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA, 2015 “Physics of Self-Assembling Peptides” Talk Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Frith, W. J. and Donald A.M, Nanopeptide 2012: Peptides as Nanomaterials and Biomaterials, , UK, 2012 “Rheology of Hydrogelation at Different Length Scales” Talk Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Frith, W. J. and Donald A.M, Polymeric and Self-Assembled Hydrogels, London, UK, 2012 “Micron Scale Gelation Kinetics and Heterogeneity of a pH Triggered Hydrogel” Poster Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Frith, W. J. and Donald A.M, Bionanotechnology III: from biomolecular assembly to applications, Cambridge, UK, 2012 “Particle Tracking Microrheology of pH Triggered Peptide Self-Assembly” Poster Aufderhorst-Roberts, A and Donald A.M, Soft Matter and Innovation: WeitzFest 2011, Harvard, USA, 2011 “Particle Tracking Microrheology of Self-Assembling Peptides” Talk Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Frith, W. J. and Donald A.M, British Society of Rheology Midwinter Meeting, Nottingham, UK, 2010 “Microrheology of Low Molecular Weight Hydrogelators” Poster Aufderhorst-Roberts, A and Donald A.M, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2010 “Particle Tracking Microrheology of FMOC Amino Acid Hydrogels” Poster Aufderhorst-Roberts, A and Donald A.M, Polymeric and Self-Assembling Hydrogels, Manchester, UK 2009 “Passive Microrheology of Fibrillar Peptide and Polypeptide Networks” Poster Aufderhorst-Roberts, A, Corrigan, A.M and Donald A.M, Biological and Soft Matter, Warwick, UK 2009

Invited Seminars “Structure, Dynamics and Mechanics of Three-Phase Lipid Bilayers”, Group Seminar, Ando Group, Kanazawa University, Japan, 2015 “Structure, Dynamics and Mechanics of Three-Phase Lipid Bilayers”, Group Seminar, Dufresne Group, Yale University, USA, 2015 “AFM Studies of Bilayer Dynamics, Structure and Growth in the Three-Phase Region”, Group Seminar, Olmsted Group, Georgetown University, USA, 2015 “Microrheology of Self-Assembling Hydrogels - Viscoelasticity, Kinetics and Heterogeneity on the Micron Scale”, Group Seminar, Egelhaaf Group, Heinrich Heine University, Germany, 2013 “Hydrogel Kinetics and Heterogeneity on the Micron Scale”, Woolfson Group Mega Meeting 2011, , UK, 2011 “Elephants and Blind Men–What Does a Physicist Know About Gels and Gelation?”, Group Seminar, Ulijn Group, University of Strathclyde, UK, 2010

Teaching and Outreach . Supervision of undergraduate research student, AMOLF, 2016-present . Lecturer at Leeds Nanotechnology Winter School, University of Leeds, 2015 . Supervision of summer project student, University of Leeds, 2014 . Secondary supervision to final year and summer project students in AFM, University of Leeds 2013-2015 . Laboratory Demonstrator at “Physics at Work”, University of Cambridge, 2011 . Visitor Guide to Cavendish Laboratory Museum, 2010-2012 . Training and support for microrheology in Biological and Soft Systems research sector, 2010-2012 . Undergraduate supervisor for 4th year “Soft Condensed Matter”, University of Cambridge, 2010 . Undergraduate supervisor for 4th year “Thermal and Statistical Physics”, University of Cambridge, 2009

Academic Profile . Member of interview panel for President of Wolfson College, Cambridge, 2010 . Member of governing body, Wolfson College Cambridge, 2009–2010 . Conference secretary, Self-Assembly and Self–Organisation at Surfaces and Interfaces, Selwyn College, Cambridge, 2008 . UK National Representative, Erasmus Student Network, coordinating international meetings/activities, 2007 . Student assessor, governing body of the University of Glasgow, 2006–2007 . Panel member on two internal departmental review panels, University of Glasgow, 2007–2008 . Membership of various University of Glasgow working groups and committees including University Senate, 2004–2008 . Ad hoc referee for Langmuir and Journal of Materials Chemistry B Languages and IT Skills Languages: Fluent in English and German, intermediate French, basic knowledge of Russian and Polish, currently learning Dutch. IT Skills: Expertise in Matlab and Labview for coding of analysis and data collection; regular use of Microsoft Office, LATEX and various graphic design packages Professional Memberships . Cambridge Philosophical Society, Fellow, 2010– . British Society of Rheology, Member, 2010– . Royal Society of Chemistry, Affiliate Member, 2008- . Institute of Physics, Member, 2003– (full membership 2013-) IOP Liquids and Complex Fluids Group, 2009–