AMOLF researcher Corentin Bisot wins Van Leeuwenhoek Award

Postdoc Corentin Bisot (Physics of Behavior) has won the Van Leeuwenhoek Award, an initiative of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microbiologie (KNVM). The award ceremony took place during the Scientific Spring Meeting in Papendal on April 2nd. Corentin received the prize in the category ‘environmental microbiology’.  

At AMOLF Corentin studies plant-fungal networks. Using advanced imaging techniques, he obtains and analyzes live footage of nutrient flows throughout the system, resembling two-way traffic on a busy road.   

Corentin says, “I feel honored receiving the prize that is named after Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the microscope inventor. Doing so, he literally brought microscopic life to light. Our work, we hope, continues this legacy by making invisible soil organisms visible.

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