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JPK announces hiring
of UK staff — January 29, 2008
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JPK announces the hire of staff for their new UK offices to be established
in March 2008.
Heading the new operation will be Dr Andrew Murray, formerly
business development director at CEMMNT and UK sales manager for
Veeco Instruments. As General Manager of JPK Instruments Limited,
Drew will take responsibility for all sales and marketing activities
to support JPK's growing installed base of advanced nanotechnology
solutions for the life sciences community.
Alongside Drew, will be Dr Alex Winkel who will lead the applications
and service department. Alex has extensive experience in the world
of Scanning Probe Microscopy having completed his doctorate at
Bristol in the group of Professor Mervyn Miles before becoming
a leading applications specialist with Veeco.
Commenting on this expansion of JPK's global operations, Director
Torsten Jahnke said the company was very pleased to have secured
the services of two such experienced individuals and that they
were looking forward to continuing to grow the customer base through
active participation in the UK's scientific community. This will
include exhibiting and supporting the UK SPM group's annual meeting
being held during this year's MicroScience event being organized
by the RMS at the ExCeL Centre in June. "The UK is one of
Europe's leading scientific markets and we want to play a more
active part within it."
JPK's new UK premises will be unveiled in March. They will comprise
demonstration laboratories, a service workshop and meeting rooms
to enable clients to visit and evaluate JPK's products in person.
Central to the JPK product line is the new NanoWizard®II.
This is truly the next generation AFM system for biological and
soft matter applications. It provides state-of-the-art AFM functionality
like high resolution imaging, force measurements, nanomanipulation
and lithography, all seamlessly integrated with advanced optical
imaging provided by inverted optical microscopes. A whole range
of fluid-cells and temperature control options make it extremely
versatile for all applications where performance and ease of use
is key. Powerful accessories like the CellHesion® module for
measurements of cell mechanics and adhesion and the Tip Assisted
Optics module for advanced AFM-optical experiments provide unique
enhanced capabilities to NanoWizard®II users.
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