International expert group
All projects other than feasibility studies and technology transfer projects are evaluated by an international expert group. It is a great pleasure to have some of the world-leading experts in the program TOP NANO 21.
Dr. Praveen Chaudhari
Praveen Chaudhari received his doctoral degree from M.I.T. in 1966. He joined IBM the same year. He was appointed Director in 1981, Vice-president, Science in 1982. In this capacity he was responsible for science programs at the IBM Research laboratories grew significantly and also IBM scientists were awarded Nobel Prizes for two consecutive years (1986, 1987). In 1989 Chaudhari became a member of the Corporate Technical Committee and in 1990 he returned to the Research Division as a Research Staff Member.
Prof. Dr. Hermann E. Gaub
Prof. Dr. Hermann E. Gaub, since 1995 Ordinarius, Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Physik LMU. Received 1984 his degree at the TU-München, post-doc in Santa Barbara and Stanford, 1991 visiting professor at Stanford, 1992 Extraordinarius TU-München. Was awarded 1986 German Biophysics Award, 1992 Heisenberg-Fellowship, 1993 Max-Planck Research Award. Developed of AFM-related techniques in biosciences, pioneered nano-mechanics with individual biomolecules.
Comment concerning the program TOP NANO 21:
So far the program is dominated by Physics and Material Sciences. However, innovative Nanosciences are hardly possible without Biotechnology and Life Sciences. The scope of the program needs to be opened in these directions, key researchers need to be encouraged to participate. An open and friendly discussion with the aim to help the colleagues of the other disciplines to understand the urgent problems and open questions needs to be established. Else the program is excellent.
Prof. Dr. Calvin F. Quate
Calvin F. Quate, Ph.D. is the Leland T. Edwards Professor (Research) of Engineering, Professor (Research) of Electrical Engineering and Professor (Research) of Applied Physics by Courtesy. His research interests revolve around the scanning probe microscopes.
B.S. 1944, University of Utah. Ph.D. 1950, Stanford University.
He is a former member of the Defense Science Board. He serves on the scientific advisory board of Affymetrix, Santa Clara, and Zyomyx, Hayward, Center for Nanoscience and Technology at Rice University in Houston, Center for Nanotechnology at University of Kentucky in Louisville, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland and as a Council member at ATI in Tokyo. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of Park Scientific Instruments, 1989-1994, and Tencor Instruments, 1989-97.
Comment concerning the program TOP NANO 21:
I found the meeting on TOP NANO 21 to be most interesting. I think the procedures you have established for transferring technology are innovative and effective. Getting the proper people together to review the proposed arrangements and then setting up a means of monitoring the progress strikes me as the right course to get this job done.
Prof. Dr. Lars Samuelson
Ph.D. in Physics 1977 at Lund University. Post-doc at IBM Research Laboratories, San Jose 1977-78. Docent in Lund 1981. Professor at CTH Göteborg 1986. Professor in Lund 1987. Research on fabrication and studies of quantum phenomena in nm-structures.
Director of the Nanometer Structure and the Nano-Science Consortia.
Comment concerning the program TOP NANO 21:
I find the research program of TOP NANO 21 very interesting to follow because of the very strong tradition in Switzerland of nanometer-scale science and technology and for the challenges and opportunities in the bold mixing of basic science and industrial applications into one program.
Prof. Dr. George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides was born August 3, 1939 in Louisville, Ky. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (with J.D. Roberts) in 1964. He was a member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1963 to 1982. He joined the Department of Chemistry of Harvard University in 1982, and was Department Chairman 1986-1989. He is now Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University.
He has served on advisory groups to the National Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Commerce.
Present research interests include materials science, biochemistry, surface chemistry, drug design, optics, and self-assembly.
Comment concerning the program TOP NANO 21:
Nanotechnology is clearly an area of enormous promise globally, and it fits well with Switzerland's competencies. TOP NANO 21 is one good way of building a national-level program.
Dr. Peter Pfluger
Peter Pfluger (born in 1953) obtained his degree in physics at the ETH in Zurich. He wrote his dissertation on the use of microprocessors in physical metrology at the Institute for Technical Physics at the ETHZ. Between 1977-1980 Pfluger acted as assistant to Prof Dr. H.J. Güntherodt at the Institute for Physics at the University of Basle, where he completed his doctorate as Dr. Phil. Nat. in February. After a number of posts in research including at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, USA, he joined ABB as a scientist at its research centre where he was subsequently appointed to management positions. In 1990 Pfluger relocated to Neuchâtel as Director of the CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA. In 1994 he was appointed as honorary professor of EPF Lausanne at its Département de Microtechnique. As a member he also plays an active role in the Commission for Technology and Innovation of the Swiss Department of the National Economy (CTI).
Dr. Hans Rudolf Zeller
Hans Rudolf Zeller received his Ph.D. in physics 1966 at the ETH Zurich. He then joined the General Electric Corporate R&D Center at Schenectady, N.Y, USA, 1970 he returned to Switzerland to assist in the build up of the Brown Boveri Corporate Research Center at Baden.
In 1991 he became Vice Present R&D of ABB Semiconductors AG at Lenzburg, Switzerland. He contributed to make ABB Semiconductors one of the worldwide technology leaders in the field of high power semiconductors.
Hans Rudolf Zeller is head of a division of CTI, and is member of the Board of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences. His current position is Vice President Technology and Intellectual Property at ABB Semiconductors AG.
Comment concerning the program TOP NANO 21:
Switzerland has a remarkable history in Nano Sciences. TOP NANO 21 is intended to stimulate and strengthen the growth of a Nano Industry which has its root in the huge existing knowledge base. I hope that TOP NANO 21 will succeed to find the right equilibrium between far sighted visions of novel technology- and application platforms and short to mid term success stories in the market. This is a challenge for the Swiss technical and scientific community and also for the program management.
Dr. Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer was born on June 6, 1933 in Buchs (SG), Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. in experimental physics in 1960 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, with a thesis on superconductivity. After a two-year post-doctorate at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., USA, he joined IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory in 1963 as Research Staff Member and became an IBM Fellow. His research interest included Kondo systems, phase transitions, multicritical phenomena, scanning tunneling microscopy, and most recently nanomechanics. He retired from IBM in 1997 and took research appointments at CSIC, Madrid, and RIKEN, Tokyo, and Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
For the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, together with Gerd Binnig, he was corecipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. He is a Member or Honorary Member of various professional societies and academies and he also received honorary degrees from several universities.
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