Martin Schuurmans, founding chairman of Eindhoven Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) in the Netherlands, former chairman of Philips Research Eindhoven and board member of Philips Health Care, was a special invited guest. He gave a short presentation titled "From science to business".
"I am very glad that we now have the Graphene Centre. I wish you lots of success", Martin Schuurmans concluded.
The event was well-documented by Anna-Lena Lundqvist, photographer at Chalmers magasin which is planning for a huge graphene coverage in its December issue.
Furthermore Karin Weijdegård, communications officer at Applied Physics, took pictures for a movie, the MC2 communications officer, Michael Nystås, shot the stills, and Anna Wallin, communications officer at Fundamental Physics, pulled the strings for the well-timed event.
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