Serge Lemay (MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente) is a world leading scientist in the field of single-entity electrochemistry. His research combines lithography-based nanofluidic devices and sensitive electronics to push the limits of electrical and electrochemical detection in liquid and develop new proof-of-concept applications based on this knowledge. This research is highly multidisciplinary, incorporating elements from nanotechnology, electronics engineering, biophysics, condensed-matter physics and electrochemistry. He initiated the sub-field of impact electrochemistry, he was the first to use individual carbon nanotubes as electrodes and as templates for electrodeposition, he pioneered single-molecule detection in nanofluidic devices, and high-frequency impedance spectroscopy at nanoelectrodes. His expertise will be indispensable in measuring and interpreting electrochemical reactivity in well-designed nanoscale geometries. He was promoted to full professor at the TU Delft in 2008, and moved to Twente University in 2009. His scientific work was recognized by the award of an NWO-Vici grant in 2007, and the ERC Starting Grant in 2011. Lemay supervised 11 successfully defended PhD theses.
His international leadership is evidenced by his role as member of the European H2020 consortium SENTINEL. Furthermore, he is panel member for the panel Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences for the ERC Consolidator Grants, member of the editorial advisory board of Analytical Chemistry, and has been guest-editor for Accounts of Chemical Research. Serge Lemay was director of the program “Beyond Moore – Nano-Bio Interfaces & Devices” within NanoNextNL, which supported a range of collaborative research projects between Dutch academia and industry with a budget of ca. 9.5 M€ (2008 – 2016). The Lemay group has extensive collaborations with industry for the development of new analytical concepts and methods. Over the last five years Lemay has collaborated with industrial partners Intel and Pacific Biosciences (electrochemical DNA sequencing), SmartTip (microfluidic-enabled AFM cantilevers), Tennant (bulk nanobubbles), NXP (CMOS nanocapacitor arrays), Keysight (radio-frequency single-entity impedance spectroscopy) and Qurin (digital biosensors). He is scientific advisor to startup company ECsens.