Rainer Hillenbrand PhD

Rainer Hillenbrand earned his PhD from the Technische Universität München for research and development in optical near-field microscopy. From 2003 to 2008 he was Head of the Independent Junior Research Group “Nano-Photonics” at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, which was funded within a Nanofutur grant awarded by the German Federal Government for Education and Research. As anticipated by the Nanofutur project, in 2007 the spin-off company Neaspec GmbH was founded with the mission to develop IR and THz near-field microscopes for the research laboratory and to promote their industrial applications. Since 2008 Rainer Hillenbrand continues his scientific research activities as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (Basque Foundation for Science) and Nanooptics group leader at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastian, Spain.