Prof. Flemming Besenbacher
(Aarhus University, Denmark) - Professor Bassenbacher has had an extraordinarily distinguished career in Scanning Probe Microscopy and in developing microscopy tools for the nanoscale characterization of materials. He was one of the pioneers of Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy in the late 1980s, developing a home-built instrument that was revolutionary in providing some of the very first images of metal surfaces at atomic resolution and at highly elevated temperatures.