Simone Wielders

Technical staff

Simone Wielders has been working as technician at the Department of Biochemistry of Maastricht University since 1988.

The first 10 years she was involved in the development of the automatic measurement of thrombin generation in plasma at the group of Prof. Coen Hemker. The next 10 years she developed and performed analysis on the blood-material interface and investigated the interaction between blood platelet activation and the coagulation system at the group of Dr. Theo Lindhout. For 4 years she worked at the group of Dr. Gerry Nicolaes on expression and characterization of recombinant variants of coagulation proteins. At the group of Dr. Elisabetta Castoldi she studied for 4 years coagulation Factor V deficiency and the interaction between FV and TFPIa. The next 4 years she worked at the laboratory for clinical thrombosis and hemostasis of Prof. Hugo ten Cate and was involved in clinical oriented studies. Since 2020 Simone has been working at the group of Prof. Judith Cosemans investigating the role of platelets under pathologic circumstances.

Furthermore, Simone performs education and management tasks. She is also prevention officer of the Biochemistry department.