At the start of 2022 Frauke Swieringa joined the Synapse Research Institute team as a Research Project Leader. She specializes in the complexity of platelet (dys)functions in thrombosis and haemostasis using novel microscopy-based platelet phenotyping and platelet proteomics. She has developed a microfluidics platform that can approximate platelet thrombotic responses under physiological conditions. Her aim is to develop a diagnostic and predictive platform for platelet-related disorders based on the combined characterization of platelet function and proteomics. As part of a large team with multiple research lines in the field of thrombosis and haemostasis, Frauke delights in working together in both fundamental and clinical research.
Frauke graduated from the bachelor study Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Maastricht (UM), after which she specialised in Clinical Molecular Sciences. She carried out her graduate internship, on blood platelet-reactive sites in collagen, at the Department of Biochemistry at UM and at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. After obtaining her (cum laude) diploma in 2010, she caried out her PhD research “Platelets and coagulation: partners in haemostasis” at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM, UM). After being awarded a Humboldt research Fellowship in 2016 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences in Dortmund, Germany, focussing on platelet proteomics in disease. In 2018 she returned as a postdoctoral researcher to the Biochemistry department (UM) where she continued her work on platelets and coagulation.
