Niels Verellen
Niels Verellen is a senior photonics researcher and project leader at imec’s Life Science Technologies department, where he works on integrated photonics technologies for life science applications. As a research fellow, he is also affiliated to the KU Leuven Solid State Physics and Magnetism group. Niels received his Master (2007) and PhD (2011) degrees in Physics from KU Leuven. For his PhD research in the field of plasmonic nanomaterials, performed partly at imec, he was awarded the Umicore Scientific Award 2012 (€10,000). From 2011-2016, he was FWO postdoc at KU Leuven and imec, investigating light-matter interactions with optical nanoantennas and near-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit. In 2014, he worked on optical quantum sensing at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as visiting postdoctoral fellow. He (co--)authored close to 50 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited over 1800 times. Recently, he received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for the development of a high-resolution on-chip fluorescence microscopy platform.
Authored articles
How imec contributes to massive single-molecule sensing arrays for proteomics
“It’s by combining different technologies into one integrated system that true innovation will be possible.”
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A chip-scale microscope for high-throughput fluorescence imaging
Niels Verellen, principal scientist at imec, received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant to design a novel fluorescence microscope-on-chip.
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A big step in a small world: developing a lens-free fluorescence microscope
If we think of a microscope, we tend to think of a fairly big piece of equipment with a lens as its defining component. The reality has become more complex though: lens-free microscopy is gaining ground. So far, only bright-field microscopy could be achieved on-chip. But now, imec researcher Niels Verellen has received an ERC Grant to develop a lens-free fluorescence microscope.
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