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Tom Shimizu received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2003, working on biophysical problems of intracellular signaling using stochastic methods. He subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, where he developed Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments in live bacteria. In 2009, he joined the faculty of AMOLF as a Group Leader, and since 2015 also holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research group develops biophysical experiments, theoretical models, and data analysis methods to bridge dynamics at the scale of molecules, cells and whole organisms.