Prof. Jan van Ruitenbeek

Executive Board

Leiden Institute of Physics
Universiteit Leiden
Leiden
Netherlands

Scientific career

Since 2003 Professor at the Leiden Institute of Physics of the Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands, and since 2007 its Scientific Director
1998 - 2003 Associate professor (UHD), at the Leiden Institute of Physics of the Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
1988 - 1998 Assistant professor (UD) at the Leiden Institute of Physics of the Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
1985 - 1988 Postdoctoral fellow in the High Field Magnet Laboratory at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Grenoble, France
1985 Ph.D. in Physics at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1981 M.Sc. in Physics at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

 

Research areas

The research in the van Ruitenbeek group focuses on electronic transport properties in atomic and molecular conductors. The main tools are mechanically controllable break junctions, low-temperature STM, and LEEM/PEEM.

 

Thematic Series

Prof. Ruitenbeek edited the Thematic Series in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology:

Molecular machines and devices

Transport through molecular junctions

 

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