Hennie Valkenier
@hennievalkenier.bsky.social
Supramolecular Chemist in Brussels, transporting ions across membranes using synthetic compounds.
📣Job opportunities in Brussels from Jan 2026 🇧🇪 Join our team to help develop new ANION RECEPTORS for phosphate and other oxoanions ➡️ Sensing and transmembrane transport for Environment & Health applications. PhD students: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383323, PostDoc: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383310
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
📣Job opportunities in Brussels from Jan 2026 🇧🇪 Join our team to help develop new ANION RECEPTORS for phosphate and other oxoanions ➡️ Sensing and transmembrane transport for Environment & Health applications. PhD students: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383323, PostDoc: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/383310
Many great scientists are currently present at the 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry in Brussels. It was a pleasure to listen to the discussions on the advances and future of Chemical Complexity and Emerging Synthetic Methodologies. #SolvayInstitutes #chemsky
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Many great scientists are currently present at the 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry in Brussels. It was a pleasure to listen to the discussions on the advances and future of Chemical Complexity and Emerging Synthetic Methodologies. #SolvayInstitutes #chemsky
The 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry has just been opened by Prof. Ben Feringa (2016 Nobel prize laureate), and this mornings session will be chaired by Prof. Omar Yaghi, who was awarded the Nobel prize yesterday! 🎉 What a privilege to have the Solvay Institutes in Brussels 😃 #chemsky
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The 27th Solvay Conference on Chemistry has just been opened by Prof. Ben Feringa (2016 Nobel prize laureate), and this mornings session will be chaired by Prof. Omar Yaghi, who was awarded the Nobel prize yesterday! 🎉 What a privilege to have the Solvay Institutes in Brussels 😃 #chemsky
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🚨Would you like to learn how small volumes can have big implications? 🚨Check out our latest paper 📃on compartmentalised liposome-based nanoreactors that engineered the self-assembly of hybrid materials. @hennievalkenier.bsky.social. Now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/anie...
Spatiotemporal Control of the Formation of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes in Liposome‐Based Nanoreactors
Synthetic ion transporters enable precise control over carboxylate transport across liposome membranes that are preloaded with Ln3+ ions. This process triggers the spatiotemporal formation of lumines...
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September 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
🚨Would you like to learn how small volumes can have big implications? 🚨Check out our latest paper 📃on compartmentalised liposome-based nanoreactors that engineered the self-assembly of hybrid materials. @hennievalkenier.bsky.social. Now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/anie...
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Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2025! 🎉@ERC_Research Grateful to all who made this possible: @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social, Rob Ameloot, @hennievalkenier.bsky.social , Excited to establish the Velasquez & Torres Group@KU Leuven. 🚀 #ERCStG #ERC
September 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Thrilled to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant 2025! 🎉@ERC_Research Grateful to all who made this possible: @aarontorreshuerta.bsky.social, Rob Ameloot, @hennievalkenier.bsky.social , Excited to establish the Velasquez & Torres Group@KU Leuven. 🚀 #ERCStG #ERC
Inspired by Amar Flood's cyanostars, former PhD student Lau Halgreen designed these small cyanostilbene compounds. Anurag Singh took over and found them to be great synthetic chloride transporters. Also a big thanks to the other contributors. Read the story in Chem. Eur. J.
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
Cyanostilbenes as Selective Chloride Carriers Relying on CH‐anion Interactions
This manuscript presents a series of eight small compounds based on the α-cyanostilbene motif and with different substituents. Three of these compounds show good rates of chloride transport, as well ...
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Inspired by Amar Flood's cyanostars, former PhD student Lau Halgreen designed these small cyanostilbene compounds. Anurag Singh took over and found them to be great synthetic chloride transporters. Also a big thanks to the other contributors. Read the story in Chem. Eur. J.
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
doi.org/10.1002/chem...
🎉Congratulations to Dr Matus Chvojka👨🎓 for passing his PhD defence (co-supervised by Vladimir Sindelar at Masaryk University) and for winning the 2nd Jean-Marie Lehn prize (awarded by the French embassy in Prague and IOCB Tech Foundation for excellent Czech and Slovak Chemistry PhD students) #Chemsky
July 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🎉Congratulations to Dr Matus Chvojka👨🎓 for passing his PhD defence (co-supervised by Vladimir Sindelar at Masaryk University) and for winning the 2nd Jean-Marie Lehn prize (awarded by the French embassy in Prague and IOCB Tech Foundation for excellent Czech and Slovak Chemistry PhD students) #Chemsky
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Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out...
...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵
...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵
May 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Welcome & please follow to get updates on International Symposium on Macrocyclic & Supramolecular Chemistry 2026 at Bordeaux 🇨🇵 and don't hesitate to reach out...
...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵
...but first lets enjoy the excellent programme at ISMSC2025 in Kyoto 🇯🇵
Thank you very much to all speakers, co-organisers, and participants of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels for the 3 days of great discussions! And thanks a lot to the International Solvay Institutes for allowing us to organise this workshop.
April 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Thank you very much to all speakers, co-organisers, and participants of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels for the 3 days of great discussions! And thanks a lot to the International Solvay Institutes for allowing us to organise this workshop.
After a great first day of scientific discussions, we're getting ready for day 2 of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels.
April 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
After a great first day of scientific discussions, we're getting ready for day 2 of the #SolvayInstitutes workshop on "The Interplay of Molecules and Membranes" in Brussels.
Read all about the anion transport by bambusuril macrocycles in our new OBC paper. Years of hard work by Matus Chvojka and with Vladimir Sindelar have led to this story that explores 8 types of fluorinated substituents, leading to very different anion transport rates. doi.org/10.1039/D5OB...
April 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Read all about the anion transport by bambusuril macrocycles in our new OBC paper. Years of hard work by Matus Chvojka and with Vladimir Sindelar have led to this story that explores 8 types of fluorinated substituents, leading to very different anion transport rates. doi.org/10.1039/D5OB...
We were happy to learn that our article about the Lucigenin assay to study anion transport in liposomes (doi.org/10.1002/anse...) is among the top 10 most-cited papers published in 2023 in Analysis&Sensing from @chemistryeurope.bsky.social. #TopCitedArticle
March 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
We were happy to learn that our article about the Lucigenin assay to study anion transport in liposomes (doi.org/10.1002/anse...) is among the top 10 most-cited papers published in 2023 in Analysis&Sensing from @chemistryeurope.bsky.social. #TopCitedArticle
The International Solvay Institutes are hosting an interdisciplinary discussion workshop on the "The Interplay between Molecules and Membranes" from 28-30 April 2025 in Brussels.
We still have some spaces available. More information and registration at www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/worksh...
We still have some spaces available. More information and registration at www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/worksh...
March 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The International Solvay Institutes are hosting an interdisciplinary discussion workshop on the "The Interplay between Molecules and Membranes" from 28-30 April 2025 in Brussels.
We still have some spaces available. More information and registration at www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/worksh...
We still have some spaces available. More information and registration at www.solvayinstitutes.be/event/worksh...
Read all about the transport of inorganic phosphate and phosphate esters by synthetic anion receptors in our article in ChemistryEurope (#OpenAccess @chemistryeurope.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1002/ceur...
🟰 key results from our project funded by @erc.europa.eu and #FNRS at @ulbrecherche.bsky.social.
🟰 key results from our project funded by @erc.europa.eu and #FNRS at @ulbrecherche.bsky.social.
March 14, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Read all about the transport of inorganic phosphate and phosphate esters by synthetic anion receptors in our article in ChemistryEurope (#OpenAccess @chemistryeurope.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1002/ceur...
🟰 key results from our project funded by @erc.europa.eu and #FNRS at @ulbrecherche.bsky.social.
🟰 key results from our project funded by @erc.europa.eu and #FNRS at @ulbrecherche.bsky.social.
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“Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines” by Hennie Valkenier et al. pubs.rsc.org/doi/d4s...
Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines
Stimuli-responsive transmembrane ion transport has become a prominent area of research due to its fundamental importance in cellular processes and potential therapeutic applications. Commonly used stimuli include pH, light, and reduction or oxidation agents. This paper presents the use of dynamic covalent ch
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February 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
“Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines” by Hennie Valkenier et al. pubs.rsc.org/doi/d4s...