Rate My Professor Erwin Kessels

Professor Erwin Kessels serves as the inaugural Applied Materials–NUS Visiting Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) College of Design and Engineering. He holds the position of full professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands and serves as scientific director of the NanoLab@TU/e clean room facilities. His research focuses on the synthesis of ultrathin films and nanostructures using methods such as plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and atomic layer deposition, with applications primarily in nanoelectronics and photovoltaics. He has made prominent contributions in plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition, atomic layer deposition for photovoltaics and nanopatterning, including area-selective atomic layer deposition, and is advancing the field of atomic scale processing.

Erwin Kessels received his MSc degree in 1996 and his PhD with honors in 2000 in Applied Physics from TU/e. His doctoral work was partly conducted at the University of California Santa Barbara, and he completed postdoctoral research at Colorado State University and Philipps University Marburg in Germany. He undertook a six-month sabbatical at the University of California Berkeley in 2004/2005. Among his honors are the Peter Mark Memorial Award from the American Vacuum Society in 2007, an NWO Vici grant in 2010, and the ALD Innovator Award in 2019. He has chaired the International Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition, serves as associate editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, and has been president of the Netherlands Vacuum Society. He has authored over 300 papers, delivered more than 100 invited presentations, and holds four patents. His professional email address at NUS is erwin.kessels@nus.edu.sg.