Prof. Harold Zandvliet
University of Twente
Harold Zandvliet (1963) obtained in 1990 a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Twente. Subsequently, he worked at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. At Philips he was member of a small team that built one of the first high-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes in the world. Since 2005 he is a professor at the University of Twente. At present his major research interests are in the field of surface science, solid-liquid interfaces, surface nanobubbles, scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, low dimensional systems, spontaneous pattern formation on surfaces and molecular electronics.