Nils Petersen Books

Nils Petersen is a Canadian chemist. He is Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Alberta and Director General of the National Institute for Nanotechnology at the National Research Council of Canada. From 1980 to 2004, he taught at the Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario, where he held other positions as Associate Dean from 1993 to 1995. In 1995 he accepted a professorship (Chair) before taking on the duties of Associate Vice-President (Research) from 1999 to 2000. In 2002 he was responsible for research at the University of Western Ontario as Vice-President (Research) until he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and General Director of the National Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 2004. His main areas of research are certain processes in living cells, especially interactions on membranes. He has also served as chair of SHARCNET (Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network) and the Canada Foundation for Innovation Expert Committee for Science Facilities.