Succesfully defended my Ph.D.!

Every journey has an end. This one took over 5 years, countless hours in front of the screens and (if I estimated correctly) one thousand litters of coffee. This would not be possible if not for the help and support of supervisors, colleagues, friends, and family. I thank you all for your support for all these years! Thank you!

The thesis is open access and can be downloaded from the repository of Delft University of Technology:
Molecular Modeling of Supramolecular Structures
and consist of four chapters:

1. Lessons learned from molecular dynamics of trifold hydrogen bonded fibers with different force-fields (I hope we will publish it)
2. Fiber formation seen through the high resolution computational microscope (submitted)
3. Nucleation mechanisms of self-assembled physisorbed monolayers on graphite (published, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 123, 28, 17510-17520)
4. Mechanism of Ostwald Ripening in 2D physisorbed assemblies at molecular time- and length-scales by Molecular Dynamics simulations (published, J. Phys. Chem. C,2018, 122, 42, 24380-24385)

I had privilege that a couple of amazing people deeply read and review my thesis, which I am grateful and which resulted in exciting discussions during the defense. From left top row: Prof. S.J. Picken, Prof. R. Oda, Prof. T. Tuttle , Prof. X.Y. Liu, Prof. ir. T.J.H. Vlugt
From left bottom row: prof. C. Witteveen, Prof. J. H. van Esch, Dr. Q. Liu, me, Dr. S. Mytnyk, Dr. A. H. de Vries, the beadle

Thank you for all who support me during all these years and help me in finishing this amazing adventure!