Edwin van der Pol's Biography

Edwin van der Pol, Assistant Professor, Amsterdam University Medical Center

Edwin van der Pol (www.edwinvanderpol.com) is an assistant professor at the Vesicle Observation Center in the Amsterdam University Medical Centers in The Netherlands. He studied applied physics with a specialization in optics and biophysics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. In 2009, he graduated in the Complex Photonic Systems group and at the institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics on addressing single optical resonances in micropillar cavities. In 2015, he received his PhD cum laude on the topic of extracellular vesicle detection, for which he received the PhD thesis award from the Dutch Society for Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering and the Andreas Bonn medal from the Dutch Society for the Advancement of Science, Medicine and Surgery. Edwin his current work focuses on the development of new hardware and software and standardization (www.metves.eu) in order to take extracellular vesicle diagnostics to the clinic. To make part of his inventions available to other vesicle researchers, Edwin co-founded the company Exometry (www.exometry.com).