Dr. Hans Peter Lang received a PhD in physics from the University of Basel in 1994 with a thesis on ‘Scanning tunneling microscopy on high temperature superconductors and carbon allotropes’. As a postdoc, he directed research in the pulsed laser deposition and low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy groups at the Institute of Physics in Basel. Since 1996, he is working as a postdoc at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in the field of cantilever array sensors. Since 2000, he is a project leader in a project focused on biochemical applications of cantilever array sensors. He has given more than 100 scientific presentations and has published about 100 scientific articles in renowned journals.