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Biographical Sketches and polymers. In this process, bio-organic synthesis, novel attachment chemistries, and a wide range of experimental and theoretical tools are used and developed to put surfaces to work. He is the founder of Surfix, and in his spare time, he enjoys taking out his telescope to watch the night sky.
Yan Li received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Tsinghua University in 2009 and then worked at the University of Houston as a postdoctoral researcher. He is currently completing a second postdoctoral fellowship at Wageningen University in Professor Han Zuilhof's group. Steven Calder earned a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Minnesota under the advisement of Jeffrey Roberts and Steven Girshick. Since 2011, Steven has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University in Professor Han Zuilhof's group. Omer Yaffe is a graduate student in the groups of David Cahen and Leoor Kronik at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. His expertise relates to the experimental and theoretical study of the electronic behavior of hybrid organic− inorganic systems. Hossam Haick (Ph.D. chemical engineering, Technion, 2002) is a professor of nanomaterial-based devices in the department of chemical engineering (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, the Horev Chair for Leaders in Science and Technology, and a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms. His current research includes nanoarray devices, noninvasive disease diagnosis, volatile biomarkers, and electronic charge transport through nanomaterials. Leeor Kronik is the Chair of the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His current research interests focus on understanding and predicting the electronic properties of organic/inorganic interfaces from first principles as well as on methodological advances within density functional theory, based on novel orbital-dependent functionals. He has received the 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the Israel Chemical Society. David Cahen (Ph.D. materials chemistry, Northwestern University) is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In his research, he aims to understand electronic transport across hybrid (bio)molecular/nonmolecular and (bio)organic/ inorganic materials, including proteins, with an emphasis on interface energetics. In parallel and also as part of this effort, he pursues alternative sustainable energy resources, in particular, solar cells. He heads the WIS Alternative Sustainable Energy Research Initiative. Han Zuilhof studied in The Netherlands (Leiden University) and the United Kingdom (University of East Anglia) to receive an M.Sc. in chemistry and an M.A. in philosophy (both with highest honors) before deciding that chemistry was his prime interest. After obtaining a Ph.D. in chemistry (Leiden University, 1994; highest honors), he did postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) with Professors Joe Dinnocenzo and Sason Shaik and at Columbia University (New York, NY) with Professor Nick Turro. Subsequently, he joined the faculty at Wageningen University and has been a professor of organic chemistry since 2007. His current interests focus on the modification of inorganic and organic surfaces by (bio)functionalizing them with covalently linked monolayers © 2012 American Chemical Society
Published: May 31, 2012 9907
dx.doi.org/10.1021/la301869v | Langmuir 2012, 28, 9907−9907
