D C Van Der Laan

Danko van der Laan received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 2004. He is currently a Senior Research Associate with the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, and the Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Conductor Technologies, Boulder. He invented the Conductor on Round Core (CORC) cable, wound from high-temperature superconducting (HTS) REBCO tapes in 2009, and founded Advanced Conductor Technologies, LLC, Boulder, in 2011, to commercialize CORC cables. His research interests include the development of high-field magnets for particle accelerators and fusion reactors and HTS power cables for electric aircraft and naval applications.