On this page you can find more information about each finalist from the 2005
Awards.
Davey Loos ( Winner 1st prize )
Catholic University of Leuven (B) Department Molecular and
Nanomaterials Prof. Dr. J. Hofkens 'Probing individual
biomolecules by means of confocal fluorescence microscopy'
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Jessica Kroeze ( Winner 2nd prize )
Delft University of Technology (NL) Interfaculty Reactor Institute,
Radiation Chemistry Group Dr. J.M. Warman / Dr. T.J. Savenije
'Photoinduced Charge Separation in Dye-Sensitized Films of Smooth and
Nanocrystalline TiO2'
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Dirk Aarts ( Winner 3rd prize )
University of Utrecht (NL) Van ‘t Hoff Laboratory for Physical and
Colloid Chemistry Prof. Dr. H.N.W. Lekkerkerker 'Rotational
Dynamics of Spheres in Host Rod Dispersions & Phase Separation in Xanthan
Sphere Mixtures'
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Thorsten Balgar
University of Duisburg – Essen (D) Surface Dynamics Group
Prof. Dr. E. Hasselbrink 'Nanostructuring of organic monolayers with
the aid of highly focused laser beams'
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Vincent Lemaur
University of Mons – Hainaut (B) Laboratory for Chemistry of
Novel Materials Prof. Dr. J.L. Brédas / Dr. J. Cornil
'Theoretical study of the geometric, electronic, and optical properties of
discotic liquid crystals'
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Alexandre Leonard
University of Namur (B) Laboratory of Inorganic Materials Chemistry
Prof. Dr. Bao-Lian Su 'From Silica mesoporous materials CMI-n to
hierarchical macro-mesoporous materials'
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Ton van Maris
Delft University of Technology (NL) Department of Biotechnology
Prof. Dr. J.T. Pronk 'Metabolic engineering of pyruvate metabolism in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae'
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Juan Perlo
Aachen University (D) Institute of Technical Chemistry and
Macromolecular Chemistry Prof. Dr. B. Blümich 'Velocity
Imaging in Highly Inhomogeneous Fields'
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Tobias Steinke
Ruhr-University Bochum (D) Department of Organometallics & Materials
Chemistry Prof. Dr. R. A. Fischer 'Contributions to
Coordination Chemistry of low valent Aluminium, Gallium and Indium Organyls
ElCP* to Transtion Metal Centers'
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