Dieter Nees

I read chemistry at the University of Siegen in Germany and gained a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 1996 with research on photochemistry in colloidal systems.

Then I spent two years as post-doctoral fellow in the Surfactant Science Group at the University of Hull in Yorkshire where I developed an interferometric method for measuring the contact angles of oil lenses floating on water surfaces.

After this I joined the Central Laser Facility of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxfordshire where he built up an optical tweezers device for direct measurement of the interaction between individual colloid particles.

From 2000 on I worked for ten years as senior engineer in the semiconductor industry at Infineon/Qimonda in Dresden developing photo-lithography processes from the quarter micron to the 45 nm DRAM technology knot.  

In 2010 I joined JR MATERIALS, where he is developing roll-to-roll-nanoimprint lithography materials and processes for large area high resolution structuring of surfaces particularly for micro-electronic, -optic, -fluidic as well as biomimetic applications.