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Cornelis "Cees" Dekker (born April 7, 1959 in Haren, Groningen) is a Dutch scientist known for his research on carbon nanotubes, single-molecule biophysics, and nanobiology. He has more than 240 publications, including more than 20 papers in Nature and Science.,〔(Google Scholar Search About Cees Dekker Publication )〕 From 2010-2012, he was the inaugurating Chair of a new Department of Bionanoscience at the Delft University. Since 202 Dekker also acts as the Director of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft. Dekker is a Christian and active in the discussion about the relationship between science and religion, a topic on which he co-edited several books.〔(Personal website of Dekker )〕 In 2005 Dekker got involved in discussions around Intelligent Design in the Netherlands, a movement that he has since clearly distanced himself from. He sees two instances in which the Christian Deity could have acted - in the place of abiogenesis and in singling out a homonid species to grant a soul.〔(Chapter from the book 'Geleerd en gelovig' (in Dutch) )〕 Dekker advocates that science and religion are not in opposition but can be harmonized. He wrote the foreword to the Dutch translation of ‘The Language of God' by Francis Collins, the current director of the National Institutes of Health. Like Collins, Dekker is a proponent of theistic evolution. He is actively debating creationists in the Netherlands.〔(Newspaper article reporting Dekker debating creationist Peter Scheele (in Dutch) )〕 ==Research overview== Dekker started his research on single carbon nanotubes in 1993 when he set up a new line of research to study electrical transport through single organic molecules between nanoelectrodes. In 1996 a breakthrough was realized with carbon nanotubes. This was achieved in a collaboration with the group of Nobel laureate Richard Smalley. STM and nanolithography techniques were used to demonstrate that these nanotubes are quantum wires at the single-molecule level, with outstanding physical properties. Many new phenomena were discovered, and he and his research group established a leading position in this field of research. Dekker and his research group discovered new physics of nanotubes as well as explored the feasibility of molecular electronics. In 1998, they were the first to build a transistor based on a single nanotube molecule. Since 2001, Dekker has shifted the main focus of his work towards biophysics where he studies the properties of single biomolecules and cells using the tools of nanotechnology. This change of field was driven by his fascination for the remarkable functioning of biological molecular structures, as well as by the long-term perspective that many interesting discoveries can be expected in this field.〔(Dekker Long CV )〕 Current lines of research in his biophysics group are in the areas of:〔(Cees Dekker Research Group at TU Delft )〕 • 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cees Dekker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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