Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB  EINDHOVEN
The Netherlands

Office: HeO 4.47
Telephone: +31 40 247 3104
E-mail: f.a.helmich@remove-this.tue.nl

Biography
Ir. Floris Helmich (1981) graduated cum laude from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2007. In his master\'s program on Chemical Reactor Engineering, he performed his research project in the group of prof. dr.ir. J.C. (Jaap) Schouten on the development of ruthenium and tin promoted platinum catalysts supported on mesoporous silica films. The work on these catalytically active coatings for micro-reactors was partly conducted in the group of prof. B.F.G. (Brian) Johnson at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (UK). This graduation project was awarded with the ‘Unilever price 2008\' and nominated for the ‘TU/e afstudeerprijs 2008\'. After his internship at PURAC biochem, Floris took up a PhD position with dr. A.P.H.J. (Albert) Schenning and prof. dr. E.W. ("Bert") Meijer in the Molecular Science and Technology (MST) group and the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His current PhD activities focus on the multicomponent self-assembly of porphyrinoids, which encompasses stimuli-responsive behaviour, thermodynamic modelling, chirality and kinetic phenomena of supramolecular porphyrin systems.

Publications

• Helmich, F.A.; Lee, C. C.; Nieuwenhuizen, M. M. L.; Gielen, J. C.; Christianen,
  P.C. M.; Larsen, A.; Fytas, G.; Leclere, P.; Schenning, A.; Meijer, E. W., Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 3939-3942.
• Van der Mee, L.H.T.; Helmich, F.A.; de Bruijn, R.; Vekemans, J.A.J.M.; Palmans, A.R.A.; Meijer, E. W., Macromolecules, 2006, 39, 5021-5027.