Moleculen en materialen

Jeroen Jansen is universitair hoofddocent Analytical Chemistry binnen het Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM).

“My group focuses on integrating biomedical and industrial concepts with multivariate data analysis to obtain more information-rich and dedicated chemometric models. With a broader view, including industrial spectroscopic and other ‘omics' data. I am a chemist, I understand that people know how systems work but we most often certainly do not know everything about it. Chemometrics is using the available information of the data you have obtained from a chemical system, and seeks for patterns that you did not notice before. Basically, using your current knowledge to learn new things and improve predictions on how the system will work. We regularly collaborate with business and industry, and with societal organisations. Our aim is to create innovations in food safety, air and water quality. Through scientific innovations in data analysis, we are very useful to our society. Actually, it is a nice triangle between fundamental knowledge of data analysis, developers and people working in the application domain like doctors or industrial engineers. They can benefit from our work and at the same time they can contribute to these innovations.”

Alexander Khajetoorians is hoogleraar Scanning Probe Microscopy aan de Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica.

'We moeten op zoek naar nieuwe energiezuinige manieren om informatie te verwerken en op te slaan. Hier zijn niet alleen verbeteringen in de bestaande technologieën voor nodig, maar ook fundamenteel onderzoek in baanbrekende en nieuwe richtingen. Onze onderzoeksgroep probeert informatie op te slaan in individuele atomen.'