Dirk K F Meijer
Short Curriculum Vitae of Prof. dr. Dirk K. F. Meijer
Dirk Klaas Fokke Meijer (Dick) was born in 1940 in Soest, The Netherlands. After finishing High school, (2nd Chr. HBS) in Groningen, he started his study in Pharmacy In 1959 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. After his masters in 1967, he was PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine and defended his doctoral thesis in Pharmacology in 1972.
He is married to Geke Severs. They have two children (Wouter and Marleen) and presently also three grandchildren (Steijn, Menthe and Diede)
Following his PhD studies, he worked at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York (1973-1974) as research associate and subsequently became lecturer at the Groningen University. In 1980, he was nominated to full professor in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacotherapy at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
He is, at present, author/ co-author of 650 scientific publications, including 26 chapters in international journals and textbooks, on the subject of Drug Kinetics, Drug Targeting, Membrane Transport and, more recently, on Science Philosophy and Information Science. He was on the scientific board of various international journals and was member of European Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
From 1978 to 2006, he coached in total 60 PhD students during their PhD studies in the Faculties of Medical Sciences and/or Natural Sciences.
He was co-founder and scientific director of the Drug Research Institute GUIDE of the University of Groningen. He was also the founding chairman of the Dutch Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences (NVFW) and that of the Federation for Innovative Drug Research in the Netherlands (FIGON). He was, in this context, co-founder of the Dutch National Drug Research Institute (TI Pharma).
Present Research Gate score: 50.05 Hirsch index: 64
Research Gate link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dirk_Meijer4
Linkedin link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dick-dirk-k-f-meijer-ab314038
In 2004, he received the “Saal van Zwanenberg” prize for his contributions to the design and development of novel drugs and drug formulations as well as the organization of Drug Research in the Netherlands. In 2006 he retired as professor and was appointed “Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion”. In 2007/2008 he worked on a partnership of universities, colleges and industries in the field of Life Sciences in the Northern Netherlands.
Current Activities:
- His current activities concern, among others, research and lectures for the Senior Academy Faculty of the Groningen University on biophysics of brain function and consciousness
- In addition, he enjoys his sports mountain hiking, and tennis and is performing member of a folk music group (vocals and guitar).
- Organization of scientific courses for elderly people at Senior Academy Faculty of the Groningen University from January 2009 till the present.
- Chairman of Discussion groups on Science Philosophy, including courses on “Consciousness and Brain Function”, “The Future of Mankind”, “The Role of Language and Information in Biological and Cultural Evolution”, “The Human Reward Brain System, Heaven or Hell?”, “Science Revolutions, on paradigm changes in Art and Science” as well as on “Quantum Physics in Relation to the Fabric of Reality”.
Dirk Klaas Fokke Meijer (Dick) was born in 1940 in Soest, The Netherlands. After finishing High school, (2nd Chr. HBS) in Groningen, he started his study in Pharmacy In 1959 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. After his masters in 1967, he was PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine and defended his doctoral thesis in Pharmacology in 1972.
He is married to Geke Severs. They have two children (Wouter and Marleen) and presently also three grandchildren (Steijn, Menthe and Diede)
Following his PhD studies, he worked at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York (1973-1974) as research associate and subsequently became lecturer at the Groningen University. In 1980, he was nominated to full professor in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacotherapy at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
He is, at present, author/ co-author of 650 scientific publications, including 26 chapters in international journals and textbooks, on the subject of Drug Kinetics, Drug Targeting, Membrane Transport and, more recently, on Science Philosophy and Information Science. He was on the scientific board of various international journals and was member of European Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
From 1978 to 2006, he coached in total 60 PhD students during their PhD studies in the Faculties of Medical Sciences and/or Natural Sciences.
He was co-founder and scientific director of the Drug Research Institute GUIDE of the University of Groningen. He was also the founding chairman of the Dutch Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences (NVFW) and that of the Federation for Innovative Drug Research in the Netherlands (FIGON). He was, in this context, co-founder of the Dutch National Drug Research Institute (TI Pharma).
Present Research Gate score: 50.05 Hirsch index: 64
Research Gate link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dirk_Meijer4
Linkedin link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dick-dirk-k-f-meijer-ab314038
In 2004, he received the “Saal van Zwanenberg” prize for his contributions to the design and development of novel drugs and drug formulations as well as the organization of Drug Research in the Netherlands. In 2006 he retired as professor and was appointed “Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion”. In 2007/2008 he worked on a partnership of universities, colleges and industries in the field of Life Sciences in the Northern Netherlands.
Current Activities:
- His current activities concern, among others, research and lectures for the Senior Academy Faculty of the Groningen University on biophysics of brain function and consciousness
- In addition, he enjoys his sports mountain hiking, and tennis and is performing member of a folk music group (vocals and guitar).
- Organization of scientific courses for elderly people at Senior Academy Faculty of the Groningen University from January 2009 till the present.
- Chairman of Discussion groups on Science Philosophy, including courses on “Consciousness and Brain Function”, “The Future of Mankind”, “The Role of Language and Information in Biological and Cultural Evolution”, “The Human Reward Brain System, Heaven or Hell?”, “Science Revolutions, on paradigm changes in Art and Science” as well as on “Quantum Physics in Relation to the Fabric of Reality”.
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as such, I walked exactly that path prematurely as an adolescent. The path of un-becoming fascinated
me. I desperately wanted to know the truth and I sensed that I would have to radically say
goodbye to my mental content. Perhaps it helped me greatly that I found out that my previously accumulated
mental content was essentially illusory. One of us previously postulated the concept of the
holographic “Event Horizon Brain”, that opened the way for studying Mystical Experience from a
cosmic point of view. By postulating this model, including a 4-dimensional workspace, he revealed
that our brain can serve for communication with a universal field of knowledge. In this framework
phenomena of NDE, clairvoyance and other PSI-experiences can be approached in quantum
physical mechanisms. This may also invite further studies into Mystical experiences in current
science.
It makes clear that our brain is not a “stand alone” information processing organ: it acts as a
central part of our integral nervous system with recurrent information exchange with the entire
organism, but also from the entire cosmos. In his study, the brain is conceived to be embedded
in a holographic structured field that interacts with resonant sensitive structures in the various
cell types in our body.
The presence of this field-receptive resonant workspace, associated with, but not reducible
to, our brain, may provide an interpretation framework for widely reported, but poorly
understood, transpersonal conscious states. It also points out the deep connection of mankind
with the cosmos and our major responsibility for the future of our planet.