Dr. Bart Hoogenboom

Biography

Bart Hoogenboom graduated in Physics from the University of Groningen in 1997, with a research project on C60 ('buckyballs') supervised by Professors Hao Tjeng and George Sawatzky. He completed an internship at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, followed by a PhD in Solid-State Physics in 2002, focusing on high-temperature superconductivity using scanning tunneling microscopy under Professor Øystein Fischer in Geneva. After his PhD, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Basel, where he primarily focused on instrument development, resulting in the first high-resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) images of surfaces in aqueous solution. In 2007, he established a biophysics lab at University College London (UCL) and has held positions as a lecturer, reader, and professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. His research accomplishments include receiving the Scanning Probe Microscopy Medal from the Royal Microscopical Society for his work using AFM in biology and initiating several funding bids related to addressing antimicrobial resistance. As of summer 2023, he holds an executive position at Nanosurf while maintaining a part-time role at UCL.

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