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2025

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83
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19703
World Ranking
3015
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70

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Jan P. Dekker is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and engineering.

Their work encompasses a variety of subfields including molecular biology, biomedical engineering, economics and econometrics, occupational therapy, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. These areas underline a multidisciplinary approach combining biological sciences with applied engineering and social science perspectives.

Main topics covered in their research include:

  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Safe Handling of Antineoplastic Drugs
  • Intravenous Infusion Technology and Safety
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques

Jan P. Dekker has contributed to several recent publications across diverse journals. Notable papers are:

  • "A kaleidoscope of photosynthetic antenna proteins and their emerging roles," 2022, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "Automated Non-Sterile Pharmacy Compounding: A Multi-Site Study in European Hospital and Community Pharmacies with Pediatric Immediate Release Propranolol Hydrochloride Tablets," 2024, Pharmaceutics
  • "NANOSPRESSO: toward personalized, locally produced nucleic acid nanomedicines," 2025, Frontiers in Science
  • "Operational and path dependencies impede the feasibility of hospital-based production of individually engineered drugs," 2025, Drug Discovery Today

The individual often collaborates with several coauthors, notably:

  • Maarten J. IJzerman
  • Niklas Sandler Topelius
  • Farnaz Shokraneh
  • Mahsa Bahman
  • Julius Lahtinen

Their publications appear frequently in journals such as Pharmaceutics, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Frontiers in Science, and Drug Discovery Today, reflecting an engagement with both life sciences and applied biomedical research communities.

Best Publications

  • Energy transfer and trapping in photosynthesis

    Rienk van Grondelle;Jan P. Dekker;Tomas Gillbro;Villy Sundstrom

  • Yttrium and lanthanum hydride films with switchable optical properties

    J. N. Huiberts;R. Griessen;J. H. Rector;R. J. Wijngaarden

  • Supramolecular organization of thylakoid membrane proteins in green plants.

    Jan P. Dekker;Egbert J. Boekema

  • Perfectly Conformal TiN and Al2O3 Films Deposited by Atomic Layer Deposition

    Mikko Ritala;Markku Leskelä;Jan-Pieter Dekker;Cees Mutsaers

  • Structure, function and regulation of plant photosystem I.

    Poul Erik Jensen;Roberto Bassi;Egbert J. Boekema;Jan P. Dekker

  • Optical characterization of Photosystem II electron donors

    Jan P. Dekker;Hans J. Van Gorkom;Martin Brok;Luberthus Ouwehand

  • Rapid and simple isolation of pure photosystem II core and reaction center particles from spinach.

    Peter J. van Leeuwen;Maaike C. Nieveen;Erik Jan van de Meent;Jan P. Dekker

  • A multimer model for P680, the primary electron donor of photosystem II.

    J. R. Durrant;D. R. Klug;S. L. S. Kwa;R. Van Grondelle

  • Supramolecular organization of photosystem II in green plants

    Roman Kouřil;Jan P. Dekker;Egbert J. Boekema

  • Supramolecular organization of photosystem II and its light-harvesting antenna in partially solubilized photosystem II membranes.

    Egbert J. Boekema;Henny van Roon;Jan F. L. van Breemen;Jan P. Dekker

  • Time-resolved fluorescence emission measurements of photosystem I particles of various cyanobacteria: a unified compartmental model.

    Bas Gobets;Ivo H.M. van Stokkum;Matthias Rögner;Jochen Kruip

  • Multiple Types of Association of Photosystem II and Its Light-Harvesting Antenna in Partially Solubilized Photosystem II Membranes

    E J Boekema;H van Roon;F Calkoen;R Bassi

  • Arrangement of photosystem II supercomplexes in crystalline macrodomains within the thylakoid membrane of green plant chloroplasts

    Egbert Boekema;Jfl van Breemen;H van Roon;JP Dekker

  • Kinetics of manganese redox transitions in the oxygen-evolving apparatus of photosynthesis

    Jan P. Dekker;Johan J. Plijter;Luberthus Ouwehand;Hans J. Van Gorkom

  • Primary charge separation in Photosystem II.

    J. P. Dekker;R. van Grondelle

  • Mixing of exciton and charge-transfer states in Photosystem II reaction centers: Modeling of stark spectra with modified redfield theory

    Vladimir I. Novoderezhkin;Jan P. Dekker;Rienk van Grondelle

  • Evidence for a trimeric organization of the photosystem I complex from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp.

    Egbert Boekema;J.P. Dekker;M.G. van Heel;M. Rögner

  • Spectroscopic properties of LHC-II, the main light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein complex from chloroplast membranes

    Petra W. Hemelrijk;Stefan L.S. Kwa;Rienk van Grondelle;Jan P. Dekker

  • Absorbance difference spectra of the successive redox states of the oxygen-evolving apparatus of photosynthesis

    Jan P. Dekker;Hans J. Van Gorkom;Jan Wensink;Luberthus Ouwehand

  • Plants lacking the main light-harvesting complex retain photosystem II macro-organization

    A. V. Ruban;M. Wentworth;A. E. Yakushevska;Jenny Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Rienk van Grondelle
Rienk van Grondelle Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Egbert J. Boekema
Egbert J. Boekema University of Groningen
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum
Ivo H. M. van Stokkum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ad A.M. Masclee
Ad A.M. Masclee Maastricht University
Roberto Bassi
Roberto Bassi University of Verona
Eberhard Schlodder
Eberhard Schlodder Technical University of Berlin
Poul Erik Jensen
Poul Erik Jensen University of Copenhagen
Charles F. Yocum
Charles F. Yocum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Roberta Croce
Roberta Croce Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jerry M. Wells
Jerry M. Wells Wageningen University & Research

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