Graphene – a one atom thin material – has the potential to act as a sensor, primarily the surface and the edges of graphene. Gregory Schneider aims at exploring new chemical and biological sensing routes by exploiting the unique surface and edge chemistry of graphene.

More information about Grégory Schneider

Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Nationality:   French
Date of birth:   3 May 1978

Education / Work experience

2019 - now      Associate professor of chemical nanoscience with ius promovendi as from February 2020
2013 - 2019     Tenure-track assistant professor of chemistry and principal investigator at Leiden University, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Department of Supramolecular and Biomaterial chemistry since December 2013
2009 - 2013     Postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Department of Bionanoscience in the group of Prof. Dekker
2006 - 2009     Postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the group of Prof. Whitesides
2002 - 2006     Graduate student in chemistry at the University of Strasbourg (formerly University Louis Pasteur), CNRS UPR22, Institute Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France in the group of Prof. Decher
2000 - 2002     Master's diploma in Chemistry and Physics of Polymers and Surfaces at the University of Strasbourg, Institute Charles Sadron
1997 - 2000     Bachelor of Science, Physical chemistry at the University of Strasbourg

Funding

2025  Open Competition Domain Science M-2 NWO, Functionalized graphene as a H+ permeable membrane (main applicant and coordinator, with Dr. Dennis Hetterscheid, 800 k€; Schneider 400 k€)
2025  Open Technology Program NWO, Single molecule sequencing with nanojunctions at the edge of graphene (SIMONedge, main applicant and coordinator, with Prof. Jan van Ruitenbeek, total grant 1,245 k€; Schneider 830 k€)
2024  ERC-Synergy, Ultrathin two-dimensional polymer heterostructure membranes enabling unidirectional ion transport (Poly2DMembrane, co-PI, total grant 10,000 k€; Schneider 3,000 k€)
2024  Gravitation program Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands coordinated by Prof. Marc Koper (ANION, co-PI, total grant 23,600 k€, Schneider 200 k€)
2021  NWO Investment GROOT Liquid phase electron microscopy coordinated by Prof. Nico Sommerdijk (BIOMATEM, co-PI, total grant for the purchase of a microscope in Nijmegen 2,500 k€)
2019  OTP-TTW-STW, Controllable graphene nanogaps for single-molecule recognition, co-main applicant with Prof. dr. J. van Ruitenbeek (co-PI, total grant 978 k€, Schneider 489 k€)
2017  NWA Meten en Detecteren (co-PI, 2,200 k€; 105 k€ Schneider)
2017  ERC-Proof-of-Concept grant, NANOPORE (main applicant, total grant 150 k€, Schneider 150 k€)
2014  VIDI grant NWO SDS-PAGE at the nanoscale (main applicant, total grant 800 k€, Schneider 800 k€)
2013  ERC-Starting grant from the European Research Council (BIOGRAPHENE, main applicant, total grant 1,500 k€, Schneider 1,500 k€)
2013  EU-KBBE Development of Cost efficient Advanced DNA-based methods for specific Traceability issues and High Level On-site applications (DECATHLON, co-PI, total grant 2,700 k€, Schneider 110 k€)

Contribution to teaching and supervision

• Course for MSc Chemistry/Life Science and Technology at Leiden University: Bionanotechnology
• Course for BSc Sustainable Biotechnology and Chemistry: Chemical energy transition: From Nanoscience to Technology

Since 2013 Grégory Schneider has been the thesis supervisor of seven PhD students and is currently (November 2024) thesis supervisor of eleven graduate students. Dr. Bellunato (2019), Dr. Lima (2019), Dr. Belyaeva (2019), Dr. Jiang (2020), Dr. van Geest (2021), Dr. van der Ham (2022), Dr. Zhang (2023). University teaching qualification (BKO, 2019).

Other responsibilities since 2013

• Member (since 2022) and chair (2024) of the Programme Committee of the MSc Chemistry at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry
• Member of review panels for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the French Research Agency (ANR), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), and the European Research Council
• Reviewer for scientific journals

Publication record including five recent representative publications

>70 papers with >10.000 citations, H-index 32 (Web of Science, October 2024)
Full publication record: Grégory Schneider - Leiden University, Grégory F. Schneider - Google Scholar

• Can, B.S., Blümel, N.V., van Geest, E.P., Makurat, M., van Ruitenbeek, J.M., Schneider, G.F., A Perspective on graphene junctions for recognition tunneling. Applied Physics Letters 2024, 124, 210501. DOI: 10.1063/5.0203315
• Zhang, W., van Dijk, B., Wu, L., Maheu, C., Tudor, V., Hofmann, J.P., Jiang, L., Hetterscheid, D., Schneider, G.F., Role of vacancy defects and nitrogen dopants for the reduction of oxygen on graphene. ACS Catalysis 2024, 14(14), 11065-11075. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c01713
• Liu, X., He, M., Calvani, D., Qi, H., Sankar Gupta, K.B.S., de Groot, H.J.M., Sevink, G.J.A., Buda, F., Kaiser, U., Schneider, G.F., Power generation by reverse electrodialysis in a single-layer nanoporous membrane made from core–rim polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Nature Nanotechnology 2020, 15(4), 307-312. DOI: 10.1038/s41565-020-0641-5
• Belyaeva, L.A., van Deursen, P.M.G., Barbetsea, K.I., Schneider, G.F., Hydrophilicity of graphene in water through transparency to polar and dispersive interactions, Advanced Materials 2018, 30, 1703274. DOI: 
• 10.1002/adma.201703274
• Arjmandi-Tash, H., Bellunato, A., Wen, C., Olsthoorn, R.C., Scheicher, R.H., Zhang, S.L., Schneider, G.F., A zero-depth nanopore capillary for the analysis of translocating biomolecules, Advanced Materials 2018, 30, 1703602. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703602

Presentations including five presentations at international conferences

• 2011: March, EU Commission, Graphene 2020, Invited by Marcin Sadowski, Graphene nanopores for DNA sequencing; May, TU Delft, Department of Chemical Engineering, Invited by Prof. Michiel Kreutzer, Graphene bionanoscience and engineering: Toward single molecule DNA sequencing; July, NT11 graphene satellite meeting on graphene applications, Invited by the Nobel Laureate of Physics 2010, Prof. Kostya Novoselov, Toward single molecule DNA sequencing with graphene; 2011, September, Utrecht University, Invited by Prof. Albert Philipse, Opportunities for graphene in colloidal chemistry
• 2012: June, Graphene week, Invited by LMK Vandersypen, Graphene bionanoscience: towards the detection of single-stranded DNA in crystalline graphene nanopore; September, GraphEL conference, Mykonos, GR (plenary, conference opening), Invited by Prof. Costas Galiolis, Graphene bionanoscience and engineering: detecting DNA with graphene; October, University of Mons, BE, Invited by Prof. Carla Bittencourt, Chemistry and graphene: what are the new opportunities?
• 2014: April, NanoTP conference, Nantes, FR, Invited by Prof. Chris Ewels, Graphene nanopores and biointerfaces: Sequencing biomolecules with graphene?; June, Graphene week, Gottenburg, SE (contributing), Tailoring the hydrophobicity of graphene; September, GRD-I Graphene nanotubes, Strasbourg, FR, Invited by Prof. Annick Loiseau, Graphene sensors: chemistry matters; October, IUMRS, Haikou, CN (keynote), Invited by Prof. Wang, Single molecule detection with graphene: Nanopore and beyond
• 2015: May, Noordwijk, RME Rapid methods, Invited by Dr. Kok, Graphene a next generation sequencing material?; October: NanoBioMed, Barcelona, SP, Invited by Prof. Correia, Single molecule graphene biosensors: chemistry matters; November: Science meets business, Leiden, NL, Next generation sequencing with graphene; November, TechTalks Biomaterials, Leiden, NL, Is graphene a biomaterial? November, RAFA conference, Prague, CZ, Focus session on DNA analysis; December, GRDI Graphene and carbon nanotubes, Grenoble, FR, Invited by Prof. Bouchiat Sensing with graphene beyond the Debye screening length
• 2016: October, ICLON, Leiden, “Quantum chemistry in water”; November, Rapid Methods Europe (RME), Amsterdam, NL, Invited by Dr. Kok, Zero depth pore nanocapillary: thinner than graphene; November, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes RTC 2016, Chemical nanotechnology in Leiden: DNA sequencing with graphene, invited by Prof. Noiret; December, 2nd global conference on Nanotechnology, Las Vegas, USA, Opportunities in nanopore technologies for DNA sequencing applications, Invited by Dr. Sekha

Publications