Wim's
present function is Director Business Development Life Science Europe
at the
FEI Company in Eindhoven. Wim has many years of experience in working
with
electron microscopes. After he finished his education as a (clinical)
chemical
engineer he started his electron microscopy career at the University of
Maastricht. At this University he learned the basics of cryo-electron
microscopy and did at that time demonstration for Philips Electron
Optics, one
of the few remaining electron microscope producers in Europe.
After 2 years at DSM doing polymer research
using TEM and SEM he joined Philips EO, now FEI in 1988. He was working
in the
applications lab to demonstrate and to teach electron microscopy mainly
in Life
Sciences applications. At present, after being the head of the laboratory for
7 years
Wim's main job is to developed business for FEI in Life Sciences. In
this role
he is always looking for new possibilities and trends in today's world of
NanoTechnology.