Contact

email: felix.hol AT radboudumc.nl
Vector Biology
Dept. of Medical Microbiology
Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences
Radboud University Medical Center
Geert Grooteplein 28
6525 GA Nijmegen
The Netherlands

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Academic Bio

After a MSc. in ‘Physics of life’ at VU Amsterdam, I received a PhD in Biophysics from Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) using microfabrication to study spatial aspects of bacterial cooperation, colonization, and competition working with Cees Dekker and Juan Keymer. After defending my PhD, I did a short postdoc joint between the labs of George Whitesides (Harvard University) and Cees Dekker (Delft). Next, I changed my focus from bacteria to mosquitoes and moved to Stanford University to work with Manu Prakash on several problems related to mosquito ecology and viral evolution, first as a Rubicon fellow and later as a BWF CASI fellow. In 2019, I moved to Paris as a Marie Curie fellow at the Insect-Virus Interactions Unit at Institut Pasteur collaborating with Louis Lambrechts, and a long-term fellow leading a research team at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (Bites, Blood, and Behavior team at CRI-paris). After being recruited by the CNRS I became a permanent researcher at Institut Pasteur. Supported by a Hypatia fellowship and an NWO Vidi grant I joined the Radboud University Medical Center in the fall of 2022 to set up a vector biology research group. At RUMC we develop new technologies to study mosquito biology and leverage these tools to understand the internal and external drivers of mosquito behaviors that are relevant to pathogen transmission.