Speakers
General
Alexandre Dazzi is a tenured Professor of physics at Université Paris-Sud and works in the Laboratoire de Chimie Physique. Alexandre does research focused on the infrared domain and teaches Nanoscience at the Université Paris-Sud/ Paris-Saclay. He has a physics background with a focus on optics and near-field techniques. He has an undergraduate degree in material science and obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 at the Université de Bourgogne. In 2000, Alexandre took an associate professor position at the CLIO FEL facility, where he worked on near-field techniques in the infrared. After inventing and developing the AFM-IR technique, Alexander has worked to improved AFM-IR instrumentation and has focused heavily on the study of biomolecule production by microorganisms. Alexandre has also developed a user facility based on AFM-IR systems and now collaborate with many groups in the Université Paris-Sud in different domain like astrophysics, culture heritage, polymer science, microbiology.
He was the 2009 laureate for instrumentation prize from the Societé Francaise Division de Chimie Physique. He was also associated with R&D 100 awards in 2010 and the Microscopy Today 2011 Innovation Award for the nanoIRTM and received the Ernst Abbe Award in 2014 from the New York Microscopical Society.