Maurice Janssen
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Maurice Janssen has more than 30 years of experience in experimental Science and Technology, especially at the interdisciplinary interface of Molecular Physics and Chemistry. Before starting MassSpecpecD BV in 2015 he was Full Professor of Molecular Photodynamics at the Institute for Lasers, Life and Biophotonics (LaserLaB) Amsterdam and was chair of the Physical Chemistry group at VU University Amsterdam.
Maurice Janssen was awarded the Royal Dutch Shell prize for best PhD Thesis in Physical Sciences (1989), a postdoctoral fellowship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research to work with prof. Zewail (Nobel laureate Chemistry 1999) in his group at California Institute of Technology (1989-1991), an academy fellowship of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991-1996) and a prestigious VICI research fellowship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (2002).
As a long time member of the management team of LaserLaB Amsterdam, part of the EU funded integrated infrastructure LaserLab-Europe, Maurice Janssen has ample experience with operating interdisciplinary research facilities at the European level. In his research on Molecular Photodynamics Maurice Janssen and his group used extensively atomic and molecular beams.
In 2015 he founded startup MassSpecpecD BV with a mission to bring the novel MS-PECD technology for the direct enantiomer-selective detection of chiral molecules to the Laboratory Analytical Instrumentation Market. He is collaborating with various companies in Laboratory Instrumentation and with world leading scientists to develop and market the first commercial Mass Spectrometer for direct chiral identification and analysis, based on table-top ultrafast laser MS-PECD technology.
At present (2021) the company is collaborating with VU Technology Centre Amsterdam on the Amsterdam Piezo Valve product line (www.amsterdampiezovalve.com), with University of Twente on microfabrication of de Laval nozzles, and with Radboud University Nijmegen on laser-based chiral Mass Spectrometry. Furthermore, extensive collaborations exist with high tech company Qmicro BV (Sensirion) on micro Gas Chromatography and various international high-tech companies on single particle detection and imaging. We have a large EU and regional funded EFRO project with Qmicro, UT, RU and Saxion University of Applied Sciences.