Post Doctoral Fellows
Klazina Kooiman, PhD
Visiting Scholar, UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute
Klazina Kooiman studied Bio-pharmaceutical Sciences at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and obtained her M.Sc. degree cum laude specializing in pharmaceutical technology. From 2005 to 2010, she was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Thorax Centre, Erasmus MC, the Netherlands. On January 19, 2011, she obtained her Ph.D. degree on the topic of ultrasound contrast agents for therapy. She currently holds a postdoctoral position in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Thorax Centre, Erasmus MC, focusing on the application of ultrasound contrast agents for drug delivery and molecular imaging. She was awarded the ICIN Fellowship 2012 and because of this fellowship, she became a visiting scholar in the Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics. She studied lipid behavior on microbubbles during ultrasound excitation using ultra-high speed fluorescence microscopy using the UPMC Cam.
Dr. Kooiman is now Assistant Professor at the Thorax Centre, Erasmus MC, the Netherlands.
