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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