Wigard Kloosterman's Biography

Wigard Kloosterman, Assistant Professor, University Medical Center Utrecht

Wigard Kloosterman received his MSc in Biotechnology from the University of Groningen (1998). In 2003, he started his PhD in the lab of Dr. Ronald Plasterk at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht), where he studied the expression and function of microRNAs in embryonic development. After completing his PhD, he worked for two years as a scientist at the DSM Biotechnology Centre in Delft. Currently, he has a position as assistant professor at the Medical Genetics Department of the University Medical Center Utrecht (NL). His main research focus concerns the functional consequences and mechanisms of formation of structural variation in the human genome. He was the first to show that chromothripsis can drive constitutional genomic rearrangements.