Dr Frank van Mourik (Femto Diagnostics bv) has studied the femto-second dynamics of photosynthesis in Amsterdam (VU), Chicago, and Mülheim (Max Planck institute fur Strahlenchemie). From 2000 to 2016 he worked on the development and application of ultrafast spectroscopic techniques and instrumentation for the study of biomolecules, at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. Upon his return to the Netherlands in 2016 he started FemtoDiagnostics to exploit his vast knowledge and experience in the instrumentation and techniques of non-linear optics
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