Jeff DeHosson

Short Bio:

Professor Jeff Th.M. DeHosson holds a PhD in Physics of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (with honors and highest distinction) and after his postdoctoral years in USA (Northwestern U. and UC-Berkeley –NBL) he was appointed in 1977 by the Crown (R.D. 101, H.M. Queen Juliana). His passion is to carry out innovative research in the field of materials science, nanoscience and nanotechnology with particular emphasis on: advances in Microscopy, in particular in-situ transmission and in-situ scanning electron microscopy; Nanostructured materials, in particular nano-clusters, nano-foams, nano-objects, composite coatings and high power lasers for applications in transportation, communications, and data processing. He is elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (division physics), editor of a number of international journals, member of editorial boards of 13 journals and Elected Fellow of various foreign scientific societies, including TMS-USA and ASM-USA. He acts as Honorary Professor of Tsinghua Un -Beijing, UST-Beijing and Port Elisabeth –SA. He holds several patents and received a number of prestigious international awards, including the European Materials Gold Medal in 2005 and the Nanostructured Materials Prize, NanoSmat prize 2009, et cetera, et cetera. He published more than 1000 articles and so far supervised 75 PhD theses. (see http://materials-science.phys.rug.nl/ or http://www.rug.nl/research/zernike/materials-science/ )