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Highlight September 2007: Fifth Bergveld lecture by Klavs Jensen: Friday September 21st at 16.00
The yearly Bergveld lecture, organized by the BIOS/Lab-on-a-Chip group will this year be given by the renowned American researcher Klavs Jensen. Jensen obtained his masters in chemical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), after which he received his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. His research into the catalysis of carrier-supported metals in Wisconsin made him receive the young author’s award of the Electrochemical Society in 1983. Subsequently he worked at the University of Minnesota in the area of plasma reactors. In 1989 he was appointed at the MIT. Here his research interests revolve around microfabrication, testing, and integration of microsystems for chemical and biological discovery, synthesis and processing. He is the co-author of more than 450 publications including several edited volumes and 18 US patents, and the recipient of several awards. His research hereby covers an exceptionally wide area. In his microchips for chemical research he combines chemical synthesis with separation methods, and they are for example used for the synthesis of drugs, fine chemicals and quantum dots. Klavs Jensen is also active in the development of portable devices for hydrogen generation and purification. In his chips for biological research, cells can be exposed to a whole range of manipulations (stimuli, selection, sorting and lysis), after which the cellular content can be separated and identified by means of biochemical testing. The Bergveld lecture ‘Microsystems for accelerating chemical synthesis and biological studies’ by Klavs Jensen is held on Friday 21 September at 16.00 in lecture theatre T4 of the Hogekamp building on the university campus. After the lecture light refreshments will be served in the canteen of the Hogekamp building.
