{"id":25982831,"date":"2025-03-09T20:22:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chill.nu\/?page_id=25982831"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:41:15","slug":"werken-bij-chill-maxima-op-bezoek-als-bonus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chill.nu\/en\/interviews\/werken-bij-chill-maxima-op-bezoek-als-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Working at CHILL: Maxima visiting as a bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to CHILL, where we facilitate talent development for a sustainable world in chemistry, materials and biotech. How we do that? By making education and business work together effortlessly.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Working at CHILL: Maxima visiting as a bonus<\/h1>\n

All the students are on vacation, so it's quiet at the CHILL Lab on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen. As a junior researcher, Sam's task for this academic year is over. Well, almost then. His students have all graduated, but he is making sure everything at the lab is in order for next year. That, too, is part of his work for CHILL. In this series the word: young talent at CHILL. For this interview, we speak with\u00a0<\/span>Sam Castermans, junior researcher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Sam Castermans is 26 years old, junior researcher at CHILL and responsible for the Synthesis Lab. He graduated last year from Radboud University in Nijmegen with a specialization in Molecular Chemistry and has been working for CHILL since September 2023. About that choice, he says, \"In the beginning it took some getting used to, that transition from 'pure' research to supervising students. It really is a completely different branch of sport.' In the process, he also has to make sure the lab is in order, and that is, at times, quite a lot.<\/p>\n

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'You see the students grow tremendously in the 20 weeks they are here. The problem-solving ability really skyrockets'<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Next academic year, he will fortunately have a colleague who will take over the lab's facilities management. Then Sam can focus on what he enjoys most about his job: guiding students. 'You see the students grow enormously in the 20 weeks they are here. The problem-solving skills really skyrocket,\" he says. 'When my students walk out with an eight, or maybe even a nine, part of that feels like my accomplishment, too.'<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Personalia<\/h3>\n
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