Johan Hofkens#
| Membership Number: | 4999 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://chem.kuleuven.be/en/research/mip |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9101-0567 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Gewoon hoogleraar KULeuven Belgium
- 2005 - 2008 Hoogleraar KULeuven Belgium
- 2002 - 2005 Hoofddocent KULeuven, Leuven (50%) Belgium
- 2002 - 2005 Chargé de cours, UCL, Louvain la Neuve, (50%) Belgium
- 1999 - 2002 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium FWO (Belgian Science Foundation) postdoctoral fellow
- 1997 - 1999 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium FWO postdoctoral fellow
- 1997 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis USA Short stay abroad (3 months) as postdoctoral fellow of the FWO
- 1995 - 1996 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium KULeuven postdoctoral fellow
- 1994 - 1995 Osaka University, Faculty of Applied Physics Japan JSPS-postdoctoral fellow
Fields of Scholarship
- Microscopy developement (remote Raman excitation microscopy, defocused wide field imaging, NASCA microscopy,...)
- Advanced spectroscopy and synthesis of perovskites
- Optical spectroscopy of molecular (bio)materials
- Superresolution fluorescence microscopy (PALM type microscopies and RESOLFT type of microscopies)
- Single molecule spectroscopy/microscopy (SMS)
- Spectroscopy of metal clusters confined in porous materials
- Integrated microscopies (integrated fluorescence/SEM microscopy)
- Superresolution optical mapping of DNA for microbiome analysis
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Guest professor University of Parma (Department of Physics), Italy (04/2018-06/2018)
- 2017 Elected member of the European Academy of Science (since September)
- 2017 Personal meeting with Bill Gates on microbiome research
- 2017 Proof of Concept grant ERC (Metamapper)
- 2017 Guest professor University of Parma (Department of Physics), Italy (28/04/2017-30/09/2017)
- 2016 Guest professor RIES (Research Institute for Electronic Science), Hokkeido University, Japan (01/06/2016 - 30/09/2016)
- 2016 Proteomass Scientific Society Award 2016 (at ISN2A 2016), Award to a career in pioneering science for ground breaking innovations on single molecule detection
- 2012 Asian Photochemistry Association Masuhara lecture award
- 2012 ERC advanced research grant (FLUOROCODE)
- 2012 Adjunct professor Nano-science center Copenhagen
- 2011 Guest professor CNRS/Université Lille
- 2011 Elected member of the Flemish Academy of Science (Vlaamse Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Kunst)
- 2010 Zernike Chair 2010 Groningen University
- 2007 Finalist Decartes price 2006
- 2006 Morino Lecturer (Morino Foundation, Japan)
- 2005 Prix FSR Université Catholique Louvain La Neuve
- 2001 Grammaticakis Neumann award in Photochemistry
- 2000 Award of the ‘Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Kunst’, sectie Chemie
