Wednesday, May 30, 2018 — Thijs Stuyver will defend his PhD dissertation on the electrical conductivity of molecules at VUB on Wednesday May 30th at 5:00pm. Among the jury members is American chemist and Nobel prize winner Roald Hoffmann. The famous chemist will travel to Belgium especially for this event, his first visit to the country in over 40 years.
Stuvyer’s doctorate deals with molecular electronics.
“My PhD studies how molecules can be used as electrical conductors. A field that is especially of importance for applications in computer science. Computers become ever smaller, while their computing power increases enormously. ...
