Cornelis Storm. Theory of Biological Soft Matter: Proteins, Polymers, Membranes, Fibrous Networks, Tissues.

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Cornelis

Storm

Personal Data

Place and Date of Birth: Groenlo, The Netherlands | May 23 1973

Address: Department of Applied Physics Theory of Polymers and Soft Matter P.O.Box 513, NL-5600MB Eindhoven The Netherlands

Phone: +31-(0)40-247 4117

email: c.storm@tue.nl

Research Interest

Theory of Biological Soft Matter: Proteins, Polymers, Membranes, Fibrous Networks, Tissues.

Employment

Dec 2009-Present Assistant Professor (tenured)

Dept. of Applied Physics and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems Eindhoven University of Technology

Leading the group ”Function and Soft Mechanics of Biomaterials” Dec 2007-Nov 2009 Assistant Professor (tenure track)

Dept. of Applied Physics and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems Eindhoven University of Technology

Sep 2004-Nov 2007 Research Fellow

Free University of Amsterdam & Leiden University With Fred MacKintosh & Helmut Schiessel

Sep 2003-Aug 2004 Post-Doctoral Fellow

Institut Curie (Paris, France)

Supervisors: Jean-François Joanny & Jacques Prost Sep 2001-Aug 2003 Post-Doctoral Fellow

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia PA, U.S.A.) Supervisors: Phil Nelson, Tom Lubensky

Education

Jun2001 Doctorate inTheoretical Physics,Leiden University, The Netherlands

Thesis: “Dynamics and interactions of coherent structures in nonlinear systems”

Advisor: Wimvan Saarloos

May1997 Master of Science inTheoretical Physics,Leiden University, The Netherlands Thesis: “Analytical and numerical studies of amplitude equations”

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Current Group & Alumni

(Oct 2010): Current group size: 2 B.Sc students, 1 M.Sc student, 5 Ph.D students, 2 Postdocs.

Postdocs dr. Francisco Fontenele Araujo (Dec 2010 - present) dr. Wouter Ellenbroek (Oct 2010 - present)

Ph.D Students Hamed Mortazavi, M.Sc (Nov 2010 - present) Elizaveta Novikova, M.Sc (Sep 2010 - present) Adrian Cioroianu, M.Sc (Aug 2009 - present) Henry Amuasi, M.Sc (Feb 2008 - present) drs. Liesbeth Huisman (Sep 2007 - present)

dr. Stefan Semrau (defendedcum laudeOct 29 2009)

Current position: Postdoc, van Oudenaarden group at M.I.T.

dr. Timon Idema (defended Nov 19 2009)

Current position: Postdoc, Liu group at the University of Pennsylvania M.Sc. Students ing. Jonathan de Vries (Sep 2009 - present)

B.Sc. Students Li’ao Wang (May 2010 - present) Ralph Klaasse (May 2010 - present)

Teaching

Ph.D level: Statistical Physics of Biological Polymers and Membranes

Lecture series for the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics

Postgraduate School on Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter

M.Sc level: Theory of Polymers (500 level course) Advanced Biophysics (500 level course)

B.Sc level: The Age of Complexity (200 level course)

Advanced Electricity and Magnetism (200 level course - problem class) Physics of Life (300 level course)

Introduction to Polymer Physics (300 level course)

Funding

2010-2014: FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) Programme ”Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction by Cells” (MMC), 313Kd.

2010-2014: Eindhoven University High Potential Grant, 250Kd.

2010-2012: High Tech Systems and Materials (Government) Grant, 230Kd.

2009-2013: FOM/Dutch Polymer Institute/Top Institute for Food and Nutrition Industrial Partnership Program Grant, 250K_d.

2009-2009: Eindhoven University of Technology Excellence Fund Award, 50K_d.

2005-2009: FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) Programme ”Material Properties of Biological Assemblies” (MPBA), 210K_d. Total funding obtained in competition: 1.253.000d. Other earnings: 50.000d.

Invited Lectures

Leiden, Bayreuth, UVA Amsterdam, Utrecht, UC San Diego, U. of Arizona, U. of Penn., Rutgers U., Penn IME, Temple U., Willams College, VU Amsterdam, Austin, Harvard U., San Feliu de Guixols, ESPCI Paris, Delft U. AMOLF Amsterdam, CNRS Dinard, FOM meeting Lunteren, FOM meeting Veldhoven, Los Angeles, Leiden U. Medical Center, APS March meeting Baltimore, Cambridge Bioengineering, AMOLF Grand Colloquium Amsterdam, Cambridge DAMTP, Bu-dapest, NYU New York, Castro-Urdiales Spain, Eindhoven, Twente, Cornell U., Van der Waals Colloquium UVA Amsterdam, Theory Colloquium ITP Utrecht, MMM Freiburg.

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Misc. & Outreach

• (2004-2007) Guest lecturer at high schools for the University of Leiden’s ”aansluitingpro-gramma vwo-wo”, an outreach program aimed at introducing interested high school students to modern science.

• Introductory lectures for prospective students at Leiden University’s ”Open Day” • Spokesperson for the young researchers of the European ”Training and Mobility of

Researchers” network PHYNECS.

• (2005-2007) Organizer, Complex Fluids and Biophysics seminar, Leiden University. • Member, Ph.D. committee of Gerbrand Koster (Dogterom group at Amolf, Amsterdam). • Member, Ph.D. committee of Javier Loaiza (Woerdman Quantum Optics group, Leiden) • Member, Ph.D. committee of Nienke Valkhoff (Doelman Applied Mathematics group,

University of Amsterdam)

• Member, Ph.D. committee of Paul Becherer (van Saarloos group, Leiden)

• Member, Ph.D. committee of Paige Shaklee (Dogterom/Schmidt groups, Amolf and Lei-den)

• Member, Ph.D. committee of Jan-Willem van de Meent (van Saarloos group, Leiden) • co-promotor, Ph.D. committee of Timon Idema (Leiden)

• co-promotor, Ph.D. committee of Stefan Semrau (Leiden)

• Organizer of the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics’ Postgraduate School on Statistical Physics and Theory of Condensed Matter (2009,2010,2011).

• Several Master’s committees in Leiden, Eindhoven and Delft.

• Referee for Phys. Rev. Lett, Biophysical Journal, Phys. Rev. E., Europhysics Letters, Journal of Biomechanics, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Acta Mat., and FOM (Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter).

• (2010-Present) Member, Colloquium Committee, Eindhoven University Dept. of Applied Physics.

• (2009-Present) Lecturer at the ”Beta Black Belt” series - introducing current research to high school physics teachers.

• (2010-2011) Chairman, ”Trends in Theory” scientiﬁc program committee (the annual meeting of the Dutch Research School of Theoretical Physics).

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Research Publications

(Nov 2010): 27 published papers, 679 citations, h-index=11. Stars (⋆) mark personal key publi-cations.

Submitted/in preparation:

2010 T. Idema and C. Storm: Analytical expressions for the shape of axisymmetric membranes with multiple domains, Phys. Rev. E., submitted.

2010 C. Storm: Normal stresses in elastic ﬁbrous networks, in preparation.

2010 C. Storm: A nonlinear constitutive equation for semiﬂexible networks, in preparation.

Published/accepted:

2010 E.M. Huisman, C. Storm and G.T. Barkema: Dynamical simulation of biopolymer networks: A non-affine to affine transition leading to network stiffening

Phys. Rev. E., in press.

⋆2010 H.E. Amuasi and C. Storm: Off-lattice Monte Carlo simulation of supramolecular polymer architectures, Phys. Rev. Lett, in press.

2010 E.M. Huisman, C. Heussinger, C. Storm and G.T. Barkema: Semiﬂexible ﬁlamentous composites, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 118101 (2010)

2010 H.E. Amuasi and C. Storm: Mechanics of biopolymer materials: Single chains to bulk properties, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Freiburg, (2010)

2010 T. Idema, S. Semrau, C. Storm and T. Schmidt: Membrane mediated sorting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 198102 (2010).

2009 T. Idema, J.M.J. van Leeuwen and C. Storm: Phase coexistence and line tension in ternary lipid systems, Phys. Rev. E80, 041924 (2009).

2009 S. Semrau, T. Idema, T. Schmidt and C. Storm: Membrane mediated interactions measured using membrane domains, Biophys. J.96, 4906-4915 (2009)

2009 C.P. Broedersz, C. Storm and F.C. MacKintosh: Effective medium approach for stiff polymer networks with ﬂexible cross-links, Phys. Rev. E79,061914 (2009)

⋆2008 E.M. Huisman, C. Storm and G.T. Barkema: Monte Carlo study of multiply crosslinked semiﬂexible polymer networks, Phys. Rev. E78051801 (Nov 2008) 2008 C.P. Broedersz, C. Storm and F.C. MacKintosh: Nonlinear elasticity of composite

networks of stiff biopolymers with ﬂexible linkers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 118103 (2008) 2008 P.M. Shaklee, T. Idema, G. Koster, C. Storm, T. Schmidt and M. Dogterom:

Bidirectional membrane tube dynamics driven by nonprocessive motors

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA105, 7993-7997 (2008)

⋆2008 S. Semrau, T. Idema, L. Holtzer, T. Schmidt and C. Storm: Accurate determination of membrane elastic parameters, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 088101, (2008)

2008 R. Zondervan, T. Xia, H. van der Meer, C. Storm, F. Kulzer, W. van Saarloos and M. Orrit: Soft glassy rheology of supercooled molecular liquids,

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,105, 4993-4998, (2008)

⋆2005 C. Storm, J. Pastore, F.C. MacKintosh, T.C. Lubensky and P.A. Janmey:

Nonlinear elasticity in biological gels, Nature435191-194 (May 12, 2005) 2004 A.J. Storm, C. Storm, J. Chen, H. Zandbergen, J.-F. Joanny and C. Dekker:

Fast DNA translocation through a solid-state nanopore, Nano Lett. 5, 1193-1197 (2005) (artwork selected for cover image)

2004 C. Storm and P. Nelson: Reply to Comment on ”Theory of high-force DNA stretching and overstretching”, Phys. Rev. E70, 013902 (July 2, 2004)

2004 J.-M. Allain, C. Storm, A. Roux, M. Ben Amar and J.-F. Joanny:

Fission of a multiphase membrane tube, Phys. Rev. Lett93, 158104 (2004) 2004 B. Meulenbroek, C. Storm and W. van Saarloos: Weakly nonlinear subcritical

instability of visco-elastic Poiseuille ﬂow, J. Non Newt. Fluid Mech. 116235-268 (Jan 10, 2004)

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2003 C. Storm and P. Nelson: The bend stiffness of S-DNA, Europhys. Lett. 62, 760-766 (Jun 2003)

⋆2003 C. Storm and P. Nelson: Theory of high-force DNA stretching and overstretching

Phys. Rev. E.67, 051906 (May 2003)

2003 V. Bertola, B. Meulenbroek, C. Wagner, C. Storm, W. van Saarloos and D. Bonn:

Experimental evidence for an intrinsic route to polymer melt fracture phenomena: A nonlinear instability of visco-elastic Poiseuille ﬂow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 114502 (March 21, 2003)

2003 L. Pastur, M.-T. Westra, W. van de Water, M. van Hecke, C. Storm

and W. van Saarloos: Sources and holes in a one-dimensional traveling wave experiment

Phys. Rev E67036305 (March 2003)

2003 B. Meulenbroek, C. Storm, V. Bertola, C. Wagner, D. Bonn, and

W. van Saarloos: Intrinsic route to melt fracture in polymer extrusion: a weakly nonlinear subcritical instability of viscoelastic Poiseuille ﬂow,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 024502 (Jan 17, 2003)

2003 J. Kockelkoren, C. Storm and W. van Saarloos: Evidence for slow velocity relaxation in front propagation in Rayleigh-Bénard convection,Physica D174168-175 (Jan 1, 2003) 2001 M.V. Berry, C. Storm and W. van Saarloos: Theory of unstable laser modes: edge waves

and fractality, Opt. Commun. 197, 393-402 (Oct 1, 2001)

2000 C. Storm, W. Spruijt, U. Ebert and W. van Saarloos: Universal algebraic relaxation of velocity and phase in pulled fronts generating periodic or chaotic states

Phys. Rev. E61, R6063-R6066 (June 2000)

1999 M. van Hecke, C. Storm and W. van Saarloos: Sources, sinks and wavenumber selection in coupled CGL equations and experimental implications for traveling wave systems, Physica D1341-47 (Oct 1, 1999)

Academic:

2001 Ph.D. thesis: Dynamics and interactions of coherent structures in nonlinear systems

Leiden University

1997 M.Sc. thesis: Analytical and numerical studies of amplitude equations

Leiden University