Gerd Binnig

Gerd Binnig, PhD, founded Definiens AG in 2000 after an extended pre-development phase. He is IBM fellow and honorary professor at the Ludwig– Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany, and has received many prizes as a major pioneer in nanotechnology, including the Nobel Prize (1986) and the Kavli Prize (2016). With Definiens, he enabled computers to include context in cognitive processes.