Huck Group

How do molecules create life? That is the very essence of what the diverse group of researchers in the Huck Group is about to discover. *Student-run account*

[Nikita M Ivanov🟥 @ChemNIvanov]

Proud to share the last publication from my PhD - recently out in Chem&Bio Eng. (open access! https://t.co/N5L68gJ8J0). It is a dive into how immobilization chemistry affects enzymes' pH-activity profiles. We show an easy potential way to gain in activity! @Huckgroup

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

Our recent @NatureChemistry paper demonstrates how resource competition can endow enzymatic reaction networks with reservoir computing capabilities to perform complex information processing tasks!
https://t.co/eWPRTRmEeJ

Congrats to all the authors🎉🎉

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

On 16 September 2025, Melde Witmond successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "To signal or not to signal" and became the 31st Dr. in the Huck group. Congratulations, Dr Melde!! We wish you all the best with your future career! 🥂📷

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

On 22 September 2025, Mathieu Baltussen successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Thinking in Molecules" and became the 32nd Dr. in the Huck group. Not only did he obtain his PhD but he did so in style by being awarded the PhD cum laude! Congratulations, Mathieu!! 👏🎉🥂

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

Yesterday, we had a Huck group outing! The afternoon began with a Titanic-themed escape room on a boat, where teamwork, timing, and tenacity were put to the test. Whereafter we played games in Kronenburger park, before closing the day with conversation and cuisine at Werf. 😎

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

On 2 July, 2025, Mart Bartelds successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Cell-free characterization of post-transcriptional regulators for the development of dynamic gene circuits". Congratulations, Mart!! We wish you all the best with your future career! 🥂🎉

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

Our esteemed enzymologist, Nikita Ivanov (@ChemNIvanov ) successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Emergent phenomena in artificial enzymatic reaction networks” on Friday 2 May, 2025. Nikita became 29th Dr. in the Huck group!

Big congratulations, Nikita!! 🥳🎉

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

On 17th December, 2024, Peer van Duppen (@Peerofficial2) successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "The Formose Reaction Prebiotic Soup or Recipe for Life?". Big congratulations, Peer!! You deserved it! All the best to your future career! 🥳🎉

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

Secret Sock Santa once again visited POC department! Our annual tradition - to become Secret Santa and gift beautiful socks and create poems for each other! There were no limits in creativity and everyone was happy to receive warm words and guess who was their Secret Santa🎅🎁

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

Last Friday we had Physical Organic Chemistry (POC) department outing! We started off in the morning with a Lab Safety and Organisational meeting, which was followed up by lunch and a #graffiti workshop! See our team result in Picture 2! @Radboud_Uni @radboudscience @Waalhalla_

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

On 30 October 2025 the 6th CORENET general Assembly took place. This time hosted in Copenhagen by our partners from the @UniSouthDenmark . It was a great to catch up with all our collaborators and see everyone’s progress towards creating chemical reservoir computers.

[Angewandte Chemie @angew_chem]

A Urease-Based pH Photoswitch: A General Route to Light-to-pH Transduction (Wilhelm T. S. Huck and co-workers) @radboudscience @Huckgroup @ChemNIvanov #openaccess https://t.co/mCo7dDXPUn

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

Yesterday, Wilhelm gave a talk titled "The Robots Are Coming" for the Huygens Colloquium (organized by the Faculty of Science @Radboud_Uni) discussing how a self-driving RobotLab using AI and chemistry aims to replace toxic chemicals with biocompatible alternatives.

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

Last Friday, our post-doc Bob gave his last presentation, where an overview of his projects was presented. Best of luck for his future position.

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

Photo credit: @ChemNIvanov

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

On October 14-15, we attended a memorial symposium dedicated to Prof. Roeland Nolte, organized by Wilhelm, @Dr_Bernhard , Bert Meijer & @FeringaLab . Many professors, former PhD students and family members gathered to share heartfelt memories, along with engaging research talks.

[Feringa Lab @FeringaLab]

In memory of a great supramolecular chemist and dear friend, the memorial symposium for Professor Roeland Nolte was held at @Radboud_Uni, Nijmegen.
A heartfelt thanks to the organizers @Huckgroup, @Dr_Bernhard, and Bert Meijer for honoring his legacy.

[CORENET @CORENET_EU]

💻Prof. Wilhelm Huck (@Huckgroup) will be presenting an online lecture on 4th October, via @iCANX_Talks (https://t.co/NjnsPYGct5) hosted in Beijing and titled: 'Neuromorphic computing in chemical reaction networks - towards intelligent materials'✨

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

The Memorial Symposium dedicated to Professor Roeland Nolte will take place on October 14-15 in Nijmegen.
🔗If you would like attend, please register using the link below until October 6 the latest.
https://t.co/KZlyjf8vJC
photo credit: Dick van Aalst

[Huck Group @Huckgroup]

New publication on "A urease-based pH photoswitch: a general route to light-to-pH transduction" is out in @angew_chem !
Big congratulations to all authors! 🥳📷
@ChemNIvanov , Alex Slivkov and Prof. Wilhelm Huck
Click to read!
https://t.co/urBm3ST0ds

[Nikita M Ivanov🟥 @ChemNIvanov]

Our new paper is out in @angew_chem showing how photoswitch-mediated control over an enzyme can time-program pH changes, relevant for regulation of life-like materials.
https://t.co/cTsSpQbHrO
Grateful to co-authors Alex Slivkov and Prof. Wilhelm Huck.
@Huckgroup @radboudscience