Steven De Feyter

Short Bio:

Steven De Feyter is a professor of chemistry at KU Leuven in Belgium. After completing his PhD with Prof. F. C. De Schryver at KU Leuven in 1997, he moved for a postdoctoral position to the group of Prof. Ahmed Zewail (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena).. He was awarded an ERC advanced grant in 2013, and was associate editor of the RSC journal Chemical Communications. He is elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Nano(bio)chemistry on surfaces is the core activity of the research group. To please the “seeing is believing” desire, the team uses high-resolution scanning probe microscopy techniques such as scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy, sometimes combined with optical microscopy techniques, to unravel the beauty and function of multi-(bio)molecular assemblies on surfaces.