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Tutor
Holger Becker
CSO, microfluidic ChipShop
Dr. Holger Becker is co-founder and CSO of microfluidic ChipShop GmbH in Jena/Germany. He obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Science from the University of Western Australia/Perth in 1990 and a Diploma in physics from the University of Heidelberg in 1991. He started to work on miniaturized systems for chemical analysis during his PhD-thesis at Heidelberg university, where he obtained his PhD in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a Research Associate at Imperial college/London working in the group of Prof. Andreas Manz. In 1998 he joined Jenoptik Mikrotechnik GmbH. Since then, he founded and led several companies in the field of microsystem technologies in medicine and the life sciences. He has published more than 10 original papers and 50 conference contributions as well as 9 patent applications. He leads the Industry Group of the German Physical Society and is member of the program committee of the SPIE “Microfluidics, BioMEMS and Medical Microsystems” conference as well as acting as regular reviewer of project proposals on national and EU level and for several journals devoted to microsystem technologies. |