Primary Job Title Founder and CTO Primary Organization 
Definiens
Location Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Gerd Binning founded Definiens with the goal to transform the image analysis industry by enabling more data to be extracted for better decisions. Gerd Binnig, along with his colleague Gerd Heinrich Rohrer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1986.Dr. Binnig and Gerd Rohrer were recognized for developing the powerful microscopy technique,
which can form an image of individual atoms on a metal or semiconductor surface by scanning the tip of a needle over the surface at a height of only a few atomic diameters.
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Gerd Binnig studied at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1973 and his doctorate degree in 1978. After earning his doctorate, he joined a physics research group at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory prior to being assigned to IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. from 1985 to 1986. He was also a visiting professor at Stanford University from 1987 to 1988.
Gerd Binnig developed the Cognition Network Technology®, which uniquely enables Definiens software to analyze large numbers of images automatically, just like the human eye and brain are capable of doing. He started Definiens with the goal to transform the imaging industry by enabling more data to be extracted for better decisions.
