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Prof. dr. Cees Dekker (1959) Cees Dekker is Distinguished University Professor at Delft University of Technology, Director of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, and KNAW Royal Academy Professor. Trained as a solid-state physicist, he discovered many of the exciting electronic properties of carbon nanotubes in the 1990s. Since 2000 he moved to single-molecule biophysics and nanobiology, with research from DNA supercoiling studies of nucleosomes and DNA repair proteins to DNA translocation through nanopores. Recently his research has focused on studying cell division with bacteria on chip, while his ultimate interest is in the direction of realizing synthetic cells.
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Dekker is Director of the prestigious Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft. He initiated an entirely new Department of Bionanoscience at Delft and leads the 51M€ NWO Zwaartekracht program NanoFront. Dekker is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and fellow to the APS and the IOP. He published over 260 papers, received an honorary doctorate, and a number of prizes, such as the 2001 Agilent Europhysics Prize, the 2003 Spinoza award, and the 2012 ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize. In 2006, Delft University appointed him as an Institute Professor. In 2015, Dekker received his second ERC Advanced Grant and the KNAW appointed him as a Royal Academy Professor.
