In Profile: Cees Dekker

Dirk Asendorpf profiles in Die Zeit (28.9.2006) the eminent nanoscientist Cees Dekker (47) of Delft University, The Netherlands. Dekker not only achieved major nanotech breakthroughs and made it several times to the cover page of the magazines Science and Nature. He also hit the news because of his promotion of Intelligent Design, the non-scientific, religious motivated alternative to Darwinian evolution. Recently he turned his research focus from nano-material-science to nano-bio-science, where nanotech stuff like carbon nanotubes meet biological units like DNA. Asendorpf describes some interesting details of Dekkers live. He lives in a community house and leaves office around 6 pm to pursue his many social activities.