Background
Born in Leiden as the son of physicists January Beenakker and Elena Manaresi, Beenakker graduated from Leiden University in 1982 and obtained his doctorate two years later.
Born in Leiden as the son of physicists January Beenakker and Elena Manaresi, Beenakker graduated from Leiden University in 1982 and obtained his doctorate two years later.
Leiden University.
He was made External Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leiden in 1991. His work in mesoscopic physics addresses fundamental physical problems that occur when a macroscopic object is miniaturized. In 1993, he shared the Royal/Shell prize for "the discovery and explanation of quantum effects in the electrical conduction in mesoscopic systems".
In 2006 he was honored with the Akzo Nobel Science Award "for his pioneering work in the field of nanoscience".
In a 1997 study by the Institute for Scientific Information, Beenakker rated in the top 300 most cited physicists of the previous 16 years. In 2008, Beenakker attended the 24th Solvay Conference on Physics.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]
After the awarding of his doctorate, he then spent one year working in the United States of America as a fellow of the Niels Stensen Foundation before returning to the Netherlands as a member of the scientific staff of the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven.