Albert van den Berg (physicist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Albert van den Berg (physicist)

Dutch physicist

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1957

Place of Birth: Zaandam, North Holland, Netherlands

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Albert van den Berg (physicist)

  • Albert van den Berg (born 20 September 1957) is a Dutch physicist who works on nanotechnology-miniaturization in physics, chemistry, biology and biotechnology (nanofluidics, nanosensors, Lab on a chip (LOC)). Van den Berg was born in Zaandam.
  • In 1988 he earned his PhD at the University of Twente with a thesis on chemically modified ISFETs.
  • Then until 1993 he worked at the Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) in Neuchâtel and the Institut de microtechnique (IMT) at the University of Neuchâtel.
  • During this time he worked mainly on miniaturized chemical sensors.
  • From 1993 to 1999 he was director of research for Micro Total Analysis Systems ( µ {\displaystyle \mu } TAS, i.e.
  • miniaturized systems for chemical analysis) and Miniaturized Chemical Systems (MiCS) at the Institute for Nanotechnology (MESA+) at the University of Twente.
  • In 1998 he had a part-time professorship and from 2000 a full professorship.
  • In 2003 he became head of nanofluidics within the Dutch national nanotechnology program (NanoNed).
  • Van den Berg has co-authored over 250 scientific publications (H=44) and over 10 patents.
  • He is or has been involved with 6 spin-off companies.In 2002 he won the Simon Stevin Master Award of the Dutch Society of Science and Engineering.
  • In 2009 he won the Spinoza Prize, the most prestigious Dutch science prize.
  • As there was no fourth Spinoza Prize awarded in 2009, Van den Berg and his co-winners Michel Ferrari and Marten Scheffer asked the NWO to reward them the remaining prize money, which they would spend on a collaborative research effort.
  • Their efforts culminated in a research paper on migraine published in PLOS ONE in 2013.
  • The paper claimed that a critical tipping point of neurons started a migraine attack.He is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and its council.

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