Hendrik was an MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program) student in the Biophysics program at the University of Chicago and a medical student in the Pritzker School of Medicine. He was jointly advised by Tobin Sosnick, and studied stress-induced biomolecular condensation of mRNAs and proteins from the biophysical behavior of individual transcripts to whole-transcriptome regulatory phenomena. He successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in July 2023, and is now continuing his medical studies.