Dr. Albert Van Den Berg

Biography

Albert van den Berg received his MSc in Applied Physics in 1983 and his PhD in 1988 from the University of Twente, Netherlands. From 1988 to 1993, he worked in Neuchatel, Switzerland, at CSEM University in the field of miniaturized chemical sensors. In 2000, he was appointed as a full professor of Miniaturized Systems (Bio)Chemical Analysis in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and became part of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology. He initiated the international MicroTAS conference series in 1994 and has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles, achieving an H-index of 68 on Web of Science and 91 on Google Scholar. His work spans prominent journals including Science, Nature, and PNAS. Van den Berg has contributed to the startup of more than 10 spin-off companies and has received numerous accolades, such as the Simon Stevin award in 2002 and the Spinoza Prize in 2009. He served as a scientific director at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Engineering from 2014 to 2018 and has held prestigious roles, such as consulting professor at Northwestern Polytechnic University in China. His current research interests include micro/nanofluidics and organ-on-chip technologies, with ongoing activities related to sustainability and health.

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