Karel Proesmans

Novo Nordisk Foundation Assistant Professor, Biophysics

NBI personal page
karel.proesmans@nbi.ku.dk

Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen
Building B, room Bc8

Karel Proesmans joined the NBIA as an assistant professor in October 2021. After obtaining his PhD in 2017 at Hasselt University in Belgium, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Canada and Luxembourg. During this time, he worked on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, with particular focus on the development of a general framework, known as stochastic thermodynamics, to study the thermodynamics of mesoscopic systems. Currently, his main research interest is on how thermodynamics puts constraints on biological processes. More specifically, his focus is on questions such as to what extend are biological processes, such as DNA replication, and what are the thermodynamic constraints necessary to create non-equilibrium phenomena motility-induced phase-separation.