Nils O. Petersen

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Nils O. Petersen is a Canadian chemist . He is Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Alberta and Director General of the National Institute for Nanotechnology at the National Research Council of Canada .

Life

Nils Petersen comes from a Danish family who moved to Canada in 1968 when their father, a dentist , accepted a position at the University of Western Ontario . Nils Petersen studied at this university until 1972 for a Bachelor of Science (honors). He then completed a doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology until 1978 . He and his wife Pat have a son and a daughter.

job

His professional stations were from 1980 to 2004 teaching at the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario , where he held other positions from 1993 to 1995 as Associate Dean . In 1995 he took over a professorship ( Chair ) before he took on the duties of Associate Vice-President (Research) from 1999 to 2000 . In 2002 he was Vice-President (Research) responsible for research at the University of Western Ontario until he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and General Director of the National Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 2004. His main areas of research are certain processes in living cells, especially interactions on membranes .

He was also chairman of SHARCNET ( Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network ) and the Canada Foundation for Innovation Expert Committee for Science Facilities .

Publications

Selection:

  • Nils O. Petersen, Zhifeng Ding, Xiaocui Zhao: Comparison study of live cells by atomic force microscopy, confocal microscopy, and scanning electrochemical microscopy. In: Canadian Journal of Chemistry . 85 (3), 2007, pp. 175-183, doi : 10.1139 / v07-007 .
  • Mapping Molecular Interactions and Transport in Cell Membranes by Image Correlation Spectroscopy ; E. Keating, CM Brown and NO Petersen, Molecular Imaging: FRET Microscopy and Spectroscopy (Chap. 16), Oxford University Press, June 2005.
  • Analyzing Protein-Protein Interactions in Cell Membranes ; A. Nohe and Nils O. Petersen; Bioessays 2004 (Vol. 26, pp. 196-203)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography
  2. ^ Staff page of the National Research Council of Canada ( Memento from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Publications (via google.scholar)
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Nils O.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian chemist, professor of nanotechnology
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century