Jaap den Toonder's Biography

Jaap den Toonder, Chief Scientist, Philips Research Laboratories

Jaap den Toonder studied Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology and got his Master's degree in 1991 (cum laude). He received a PhD degree (cum laude) from the same university in 1996 on a numerical/theoretical and experimental study of drag reduction in turbulent flows by polymer additives. In 1995, he joined the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he started working in the field of the mechanics of solid materials. He has worked on a wide variety of applications, such as ceramic capacitors, optical storage systems, IC low-k materials, RF MEMS, soft electronics, biomedical devices, polymer MEMS, and micro-fluidics. Since 2008, as Chief Technologist, he is responsible for the R&D program on (micro-)fluidics. He is involved in research projects on in-vitro diagnostics, lab-on-chip, immersion lithography, and energy applications. Since 2004, Jaap den Toonder combines his work at Philips with a part-time professorship at the Materials Technology group of the University of Technology of Eindhoven. His current main academic research interests are micro-fluidics in general, mechanical properties of biological cells, nature-inspired fluidic micro-actuators and the use of magnetic particles in micro-fluidic systems. Jaap den Toonder is a co-author of over 50 scientific papers, as well as a co-inventor of over 40 patent applications.