Christoph Gerber is the director for Scientific Communication at the Institute of Physics, University of Basel.
Christoph Gerber is the co-inventor of the atomic force microscope. He is among the 100 most cited living physicists in the world.[1]
Currently, he is the Director for Scientific Communication of the NCCR (National Center of Competence in Research Nanoscale Science) at the Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland, and a founding member of the NCCR. He was formerly a Research Staff Member in Nanoscale Science at the IBM Research Laboratory in Rueschlikon, Switzerland, and has served as a project leader in various programs of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
For the past 25 years, his research has been focused on Nanoscale Science. He is a pioneer in Scanning Probe Microscopy, and he made major contributions to the invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope and the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)[2], he is also a co-inventor of Biochemical sensors based on AFM Technology.
He is the author and co-author of more than 140 scientific papers that have appeared in peer-reviewed journals and has been cited more than 18'000 times in cross-disciplinary fields. He belongs to the one hundred worldwide most cited researchers in Physical Sciences. He has given numerous plenary and invited talks at international conferences.
His work has been recognized with multiple honorary degrees and various awards and appeared in numerous articles in daily press and TV coverage. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of physics UK. His IP portfolio contains 37 patents and patent publications. His private interest range from literature (scientific and a good novel) to art and sports (he is a passionate skier and plays an acceptable round of golf).
His current interests include
- Biochemical sensors based on AFM Technology
- Chemical surface identification on the nanometer scale with AFM
- Nanomechanics, nanorobotics, molecular devices at the ultimate limits of measurement and fabrication
- Atomic Force Microscopy research on insulators
- Single Spin Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM)
- Self-organization and self-assembly at the nanometer scale
External links
- http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/nose/ChGerber/
- http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Results&id=144
References
- ^ http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Results&id=144
- ^ G.K. Binnig, C.F. Quate and Ch. Gerber. "Atomic Force Microscope", Phys. Rev. Lett. 56(9), 930-933 (1986).
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