Hall of fame

On this page we want to honour our members who have received special recognition from inside or outside the BSM. If you know of anybody who deserves to be mentioned here, please contact the Secretary.

For more information on the BSM Awards, see Rules & Regulations

2010 -2009 - 2008 - 2007

2011

2011 BSM Thesis Award Winners:
David Alsteens (Université Catholique de Louvain) – “Nanomechanics of the Yeast Cell Wall “ - BSM Thesis Award in the category of Microscopy for Life Sciences

Chang Chen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & IMEC) – “Plasmonic Nanopores For Direct Molecular Identification” - BSM Thesis Award in the category of Microscopy Instrumentation and Methods

Xiaoxing Ke (Universiteit Antwerpen) – “From Top-down to Bottom-up, From Carbon Nanotubes to Nanodevices” - BSM Thesis Award in the category of Microscopy for Materials Sciences

BSM Best Poster Awards at the 2011 Joint Autumn Meeting of the BSCDB/BSM “Advanced Microscopy Meets Cell and Developmental Biology”, Antwerp, October 22, 2011:

  • Rik Paesen (UHasselt): Applications Of Polarization Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy
  • Nick Smisdom (UHasselt): Diffusion And Aggregation State Of Glycine Receptor Alpha3 Splice Variants Probed Using Ensemble Microfluorimetric Techniques


2010

2010 BSM Thesis Award Winners:
Jan Buytaert (Universiteit Antwerpen) - "New Optical Tomographic & Topographic Techniques for Biomedical Applications" - 2010 BSM Thesis Award in the category of Instrumentation and Methods in Life Sciences

Gert De Cremer (KU Leuven) - "In situ monitoring of dynamics in redox chemistry by fluorescence micro- and nanoscopy" - 2010 BSM Thesis Award in the category of Instrumentation and Methods in Materials Science

Stuart Turner (Universiteit Antwerpen)- "Transmission Electron Microscopy Characterisation of 0-D Nanomaterials" - 2010 BSM Thesis Award in the category Materials Science

DSM Award: Gert De Cremer (KULeuven) wins the first prize in the DSM Science & Technology Awards (North) for his thesis “In situ monitoring of dynamics in redox chemistry by fluorescence micro- and nanoscopy”. More information

DSM
From left to right: Anke Detzer (2nd prize), Gert De Cremer (1st prize), Rob van Leen (Chief Innovation Office of DSM) and Siebe van Mensfoort (3rd prize).

 

2009

Best Poster Award Winners, Annual Meeting in Gent, 21 November 2009:
Life Sciences: Elke Decrock (UGent) and Leen Uyttebroek (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Materials Sciences: Karel Lambert (UGent) and Philippe Smet (UGent)

2009 BSM Thesis Award Winners:
•Materials sciences: Mélanie Jeusette (University of Mons-Hainaut) "Microscopic morphology and thermomechanical properties of acrylate block copolymers for pressure-sensitive adhesives"
•Instrumentation and methods:
Vanessa Rosso (Université de Liège) "Conception et réalisation d’un dispositif interférométrique de shearographie. Application en milieu diffusant"

Mélanie Vanessa

 

2008

2008 BSM Thesis Award Winners:
•Life Sciences:
Marjan Moreels (Universiteit Hasselt) "Ultrastructural and immunocytochemical characterization of rat glial cells: morphological changes induced by TGF-β1 and potential relevance to multiple sclerosis"
•Physics/Materials Sciences:
Maarten Roeffaers (KU Leuven) "Heterogeneous catalysis: a Fluorescence Microscopy study"
Wim Tirry (Universiteit Antwerpen) "Strains on the nano- and microscale in NiTi: an advanced TEM study"

Marjan Maarten
Wim


 

2007

2007 BSM Thesis Award Winner:
•Life Sciences:
Isabel Pintelon (Universiteit Antwerpen) "Neurochemical characterisation of sensory lung receptors
and in situ functional imaging in lung models"

 

 

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