René Janssen

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René Janssen (2015)

RAJ "René" Janssen (* 1959 in Roermond ) is a Dutch materials scientist.

Janssen was at the 1987 Technical University Eindhoven Henk M. Buck with the work A single crystal ESR and quantum chemical study of phosphorus centered Radicals doctorate . As a post-doctoral student , he was with Alan Heeger at the University of California, San Diego (who received the Nobel Prize as a pioneer in the field of conductive polymers) and then again in Eindhoven, where he became a professor in 2000 and holds the chair for molecular materials and nanosystems . In 2013 he became a university professor in the Faculty of Applied Physics.

Janssen deals with organic semiconductors, for example for solar cells (polymer solar cells) and for storing solar energy.

He won the NWO Prize for Young Chemists twice and the Spinoza Prize in 2015 . In 2011 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2013 he received an ERC Advanced Grant.

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  1. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of René AJ Janssen at academictree.org, accessed on February 15, 2018.