Biographies of Authors and Editors
Piveteau, Laurent-Dominique Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering
45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
E-mail: piveteau@mit.edu, laurent-d.piveteau@alumni.insead.edu
Web-site: web.mit.edu/cheme/www/
Laurent-Dominique Piveteau received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He developed a highly adhesive sol-gel coating for titanium implants made of a mixture of calcium phosphate and titanium dioxide, awarded in 1997 by the Charmey Prize from the Swiss User Group for Applied Surface Analysis (SAOG - GSSI). In 1998 he moved to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (USA). He is currently post-doc in Bob Langer's laboratory. He works on contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging. The aims are to specifically target these agents to different organs and also to use them as a non-invasive tracking system for drug delivery.
