Cornelius "Cees" Dekker
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"Cees" (Cornelius) Dekker was born in Haren, The Netherlands in 1959. He received his M.Sc. in Experimental Physics from the University of Utrecht in 1984, followed by a Ph.D. in physics in 1988. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biophysics at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He has been highly honored for his research into carbon nanotubes and measurements of single molecules.
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Education
• 1977-1983 Experimental Physics at the University of Utrecht • 1984-1988 Ph.D. in Physics from University of Utrecht; thesis "Two-dimensional spin glasses"
Academic Positions
- 1984-1988 Research assistant (promovendus), University of Utrecht
- 1988-1993 Assistant professor (UD), University of Utrecht
- 1990-1991 Visiting researcher, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA
- 1993-1999 Associate professor (UHD), Delft University of Technology
- 1999 -2000 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Full Professor, Delft University of Technology
- 2000 Visiting researcher, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- 2000-present Full Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Delft University of Technology
- 2006-present Distinguished University Professor, Delft University of Technology
Research & Teaching
Prof. Dr. Dekker's research currently focuses on using various tools of nanotechnology to study single biomolecules. This includes studying electronic conduction through a single molecule of DNA. His research projects address nanopores,[1] DNA repair, carbon nanotubes[2], biomotors on nanofabricated chips, restriction enzymes,[3] and nanofluidics. Prof. Dekker teaches ‘Introduction to biophysics’, and ‘Molecular motors’. He gives 12-17 invited presentations each year.
Honors
- 1999 Discover Award for Emerging Future Technologies
- 2000 NWO Pioneer Award for ‘Single-molecule electronics from nanotubes to DNA’
- 2001 Burgen scholar, Academia Europaea
- 2001 Agilent Europhysics Prize “for the discovery of multi and single walled carbon nanotubes and pioneering studies of their fundamental mechanical and electronic properties”.
- 2002 Julius Springer prize for Applied Physics “for the discovery of the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes and for pioneering work on their application in single-molecule electronic devices”.
- 2003 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2003 Honorary doctorate, Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- 2003 NWO Spinoza award for outstanding, pioneering and inspiring scientific work (highest scientific award in the Netherlands)
- 2004 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- 2005 Honorary Ørsted lecture, Denmark
- 2005 Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 2005 International Montefiore Award for outstanding contributions of electrical engineering to biomedical engineering and life sciences
- 2006 Distinguished University Professor TU Delft
Publications & Bibliography
Prof. Dekker has at least 141 publications. He has achieved an impressive list of high publicity papers: 15 papers in Nature (4 cover articles), 3 papers in Science (1 cover article), 13 papers in Physical Review Letters, 6 papers in PNAS, as well as 2 cover articles in J., Molec. Cell and further papers in Nature Materials, Nature Struct. Molec. Biol., EMBO, JACS, Phys.Rev., Advanced Materials, Nucl.Acid Res., Nano Lett., etc.
- Dekker's Publications
- Molecular Biophysics Group Publications
- Dekker's slides on carbon nanotubes
- Dekker's slides on nanopores
- Dekker's slides on enzyme restriction
- Schitterend ongeluk of sporen van ontwerp, 2005, ISBN 9025954839 (coauthored with Ronald Meester and Rene van Woudenberg)
Searches
References
External links
- Dekker's University Homepage
- Cees Dekker's Short CV
- Cees Dekker's Long CV
- Molecular Biophysics Group at Delft University of Technology
- Wikipedia Biography(In Dutch)
- Image Gallery of carbon nanotubes, DNA etc
- Gallery of Cover Pages for publications from Dekker's group.
- Experimenten die ID kunnen aantonen (Brief news item on Experiments that Could Demonstrate ID)
- A comment on "The Design Paradigm Blog" Dekker's ID-related activities.
