Lambertus Hesselink, Prof. Dr. Ir.

Department of Electrical Engineering
Center for Nonlinear Optical Materials
Stanford University

Education
Ph.D. 1977: California Institute of Technology Applied Mechanics and Physics/Applied Physics.
Eng. 1974: Twente Institute of Technology.
M.S. 1972: California Institute of Technology .
B.S.1971: Twente Institute of Technology Applied Physics .
B.S. 1970: Twente Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering.
Professional career
September 1980 - present: Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Electrical Engineering.
October 1977 - Oct. 1980: Instructor in Applied Physics and Senior Research fellow at Caltech.
March 1994 - May 1997: Founder, Chairman, CEO and CTO of Siros Technologies.
May 1997- Present: Chairman and CTO, Siros Technologies, Inc. (Data storage).
April 1994 - Present: Principal Investigator of DARPA funded $53M Industry Consortium for the development of Digital Holographic Data Storage.
October 1999: Co-founder, Chairman and interim CEO, Senvid, Inc.
Professional Honors
Numerous awards from scientific and professional societies, including Fullbright scholarship, Stheeman Price, DARPA award, NSIC award, Fellow of the OSA.
Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Research and Experience
Ultra-high density optical data storage, optical information systems, fluid mechanics, nano-optics, acoustics, digital image processing, Internet controlled instrumentation (CyberLab).
Expert witness numerous patent cases, US Airforce Scientific Advisory Board, Hubble Space Telescope Committee, Astronaut Memorial Co-designer.


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