Prof. Michel W.F. Nielen, PhD
Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR),
part of Wageningen University & Research
P.O. Box 230
6700 AE Wageningen
THE NETHERLANDS
Email: michel.nielen@wur.nl
Michel Nielen obtained his PhD at the VU university (Amsterdam, NL) in 1986. After a career at TNO and in chemical industry at AkzoNobel, he became program manager veterinary drugs at RIKILT Wageningen University & Research. In 2007 he also became extraordinary professor at Wageningen University, focusing on research and development of bioactivity-related multimethods for the detection of chemical contaminants in the food chain. Since 2012, he is principal scientist at Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) and holds a part-time Special Chair on Analytical Chemistry at Wageningen University. He is former president of the Dutch Society for Mass Spectrometry and former scientific director of TI-COAST, the Dutch public-private partnership on analytical science and technology. Since January 2017 he is the coordinator of the EU Marie Curie Innovative Training Network FoodSmartphone which aims for the development of smartphone analyzers for on-site testing of food quality and safety. Nielen (co-)authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters (>8800 citations, H-index 53) covering a wide range of analytical technologies, including mass spectrometry, chromatography, capillary electrophoresis and biosensors.
