Chemist Andries Meijerink will receive the KNAW Gilles Holst Medal this year. Meijerink has been awarded the medal for modelling, making and characterising new luminous materials that improve the efficiency of lighting and solar cells.
Andries Meijerink, Professor of Solid State Chemistry at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science and MCEC member at Utrecht University, is an internationally renowned expert in the design, composition and understanding of materials that emit light. His research is crucial for the transition to a sustainable society in which efficient lighting and the conversion of sunlight into electricity will play a pivotal role.
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11 October 2019