Work experience 

Present position:

May 2022 – now: Interim head of the Translational Metabolic Laboratory – TML; Department of Human Genetics, Radboudumc Nijmegen, the Netherlands. TML is a mixed function lab (research – innovation – diagnostics) with enzyme-, metabolite and DNA-sections related to Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

January 2010 – now: Registered as a Clinical Laboratory Geneticist; Translational Metabolic Laboratory (TML), department of Laboratory Medicine / Human Genetics, Radboudumc Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Responsible for the metabolite diagnostics of inborn errors of metabolism and the introduction of (untargeted) metabolomics in the diagnostic process.

Previous positions:

• 2005-2010: Clinical Laboratory Geneticist in training; Radboudumc Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• 2000-2005: Postdoctoral Researcher; Radboudumc Nijmegen, the Netherlands
• 1998-2000: Postdoctoral Researcher; Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA

  Education

• 1993-1998: PhD Thesis: Molecular genetic analysis in hyperhomocysteinemia; Radboudumc Nijmegen.
• 1990-1993: M.Sc. in Biology; University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• 1986-1990: B.Sc. in Biochemistry; Higher Laboratory Education; Enschede, the Netherlands.

Summarized scientific track record – March 2025

Leo Kluijtmans has published ~140 peer-reviewed paper in international journals as author and co-author. As of March 2025, his H-index is 44 and the number of citations amounts to ~11,000 (Web of Science).