The Technology Foundation STW has awarded prof.dr.ir. Albert van den Berg and prof.dr. Cock Lodder the Simon Stevin Masterhood. This is the highest Dutch award for technical-scientific research. They will each receive half a million euros for their research. Both professors work for the research institute MESA+ and will spend the money on nanotechnology.
Albert van den Berg will use the contribution for the project NanoScan: he is developing a system to obtain fluids for analysis from a single cell.
Cock Lodder is looking for new ways to store information. Lodder is researching probe recording: writing and reading information through hundreds of tiny needles simultaneously.
