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Nature Materials 7, 761–762 (1 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/nmat2276

The healthy option

What is the background of someone planning research strategies in healthcare for a major company like Philips? Well, I am a physical chemist in origin. Both my PhD at the Free University, Amsterdam, and my postdoc at the ETH in Z|[uuml]|rich were on low-temperature laser spectroscopy.