Michiel Vermeulen performed his doctoral work in the laboratory of Henk Stunnenberg at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. In 2005 he joined the lab of Matthias Mann in Munich, Germany as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2009 he was appointed as assistant professor and in 2013 as associate professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht in The Netherlands. In February 2014 he was appointed as full professor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Since February 2023 he also holds a part-time position as senior group leader at the Dutch Cancer Institute. The group currently consists of 8 PhD students, 5 post-docs and 3 technicians. Awarded grants include NWO-VIDI (2009), an ERC Starting Grant (2012), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2017) and an NWO-VICI (2021). He was elected as member of Academia Europeae in 2019 and an a member of EMBO in 2022.

• 2008: Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry Junior Research Award.

• 2000: Van Nieuwenhoven award for best undergraduate student in biology, University of Nijmegen

1. Kliza KW, Liu Q, Roosenboom LWM, Jansen PWTC, Filippov DV, Vermeulen M. (2021) Reading ADP-ribosylation using chemical biology and interaction proteomics. Molecular cell, 81(21), 4552-4567.

2. Santos-Barriopedro I, van Mierlo G, Vermeulen M (2021). Off-the-shelf proximity biotinylation for interaction proteomics. Nature Communications, 12(1):5015.

3. Edupuganti RR, Geiger S, Lindeboom RGH, Shi H, Hsu PJ, Lu Z, Wang SY, Baltissen MPA, Jansen PWTC, Rossa M, Müller M, Stunnenberg HG, He C, Carell T, Vermeulen M. (2017) N⁶-methyladenosine (m⁶A) recruits and repels proteins to regulate mRNA homeostasis. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 24(10):870-878.

4. Zhang, X., Smits, A. H., van Tilburg, G. B., Jansen, P. W., Makowski, M. M., Ovaa, H., & Vermeulen, M. (2017). An interaction landscape of ubiquitin signaling. Molecular cell, 65(5), 941-955.

5. Spruijt, C. G., Gnerlich, F., Smits, A. H., Pfaffeneder, T., Jansen, P. W., Bauer, C., ... & Eberl, H. C. (2013). Dynamic readers for 5-(hydroxy) methylcytosine and its oxidized derivatives. Cell, 152(5), 1146-1159.