Prof. Flemming Besenbacher, Director of Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) at Aarhus University and Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark, and Dr. Peter Thostrup, Deputy Director of iNANO, visited IGDB on July 4. Dr. LING Hongqing, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, as well as Drs. SHEN Qianhua and GAO Caixia from the institute took part in the meeting. 

Dr. LING Hongqing introduced visitors the organization and recently research progress of IGDB and the State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering. Dr. Flemming Besenbacher gave a brief introduction to iNANO and Carlsberg Group. Then, the possible collaborations, especially the use of quantitative nanotechnology in molecular biology, were discussed between iNANO and IGDB. Both partied hoped to establish a collaboration partnership for a long term strategy.

Prof. Flemming Besenbacher is one of the most influential researchers in Denmark and a leading nanoscientist in the world. Since 2002 Prof. Flemming Besenbacher has been the Director of iNANO. Since 2002, he has also headed the iNANO graduate school. He serves on the boards of the Carlsberg Foundation and the Carlsberg Breweries. In 2007 he was knighted by the Danish Queen.

Prof. Besenbacher has been awarded numerous scientific prizes and several honorary professorships and is on the editorial teams of several scientific journals. He also has more than 400 publications to his name in scientific journals, several patents and collaborates extensively with a series of industrial enterprises.

From taking on the first Chinese doctoral student from the CAS Institute of Chemistry in the early 1990s to successfully advocating the launch of a Sino-Danish education center in 2011, Prof. Besenbacher has greatly accelerated the collaboration between his group and CAS, and pushed Sino-Danish scientific cooperation to an unprecedented high level.

In this January, Prof. Flemming Besenbacher received the Award for International Scientific Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is the highest award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.