prof.dr.ir. J.W.M. Hilgenkamp (Hans)

PROF. DR. IR. HANS HILGENKAMP, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Professor of Applied Physics & Nanotechnology, and Scientific Director MESA+ Institute – University of Twente

Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE)

Previous:

2014 - 2018:
Dean Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente

2009 -2014 (parttime):
Professor of Physics, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University

2003 – 2005:
Associate professor (‘UHD’), University of Twente

1999 – 2003:
Assistant professor (‘UD’), University of Twente

1996 – 1999:
Scientific staff-member at the Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism (EKM), Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg, Germany

1995 - 1996:
Post-doc researcher at the IBM Zurich Research Lab, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

March 1995 – August 1995:
Post-doc researcher at University of Twente

July 1997 – June 2002:
KNAW research fellow at the Faculty of Applied Physics, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.

Ph.D.
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
March 17, 1995
Promotor: Prof. Dr. H. Rogalla
Title of the thesis: ‘High-Tc dc SQUID Magnetometers’

M.Sc.
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Applied Physics
Graduation: March 1991

Selected activities:

• Chairman of the NanoLabNL consortium (from July 2025 - present)
• Main applicant and coordinator of the large-scale collaborative research program 'NL-ECO: Netherlands Initiative for Energy-Efficient Computing', in the framework of the Dutch Science Agenda (NWA) (2023 - present).
• Member Governing Board Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography ARCNL (July 2024 - present)
• Member Executive Board Dutch Physics Council (Raad voor de Natuurkunde) (2020 - present)
• Member Global Future Council on Scientific Collaboration, World Economic Forum (2020-2022)
• Member Board of Reviewing Editors, Science Magazine, (2019 - 2025) 
• Board Member/Vice-chair Dutch Physical Society (NNV)  (2017 - 2025)
• Member Council of Deans in the STEM disciplines in The Netherlands (2014-2018)
• Visiting Professor Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore  (2007 - 2015).
• Distinguished Visiting Scientist CSIRO Research Lab, Lindfield Sydney, Australia. (Sept.-Nov 2007).
• Board member (Raad van Bestuur) Dutch FOM foundation (2009-2017).
• Board member Condensed Matter and Optical Sciences (COMOP) workgroup of the Dutch FOM foundation (2009-2017).
• Board member of the Applied Superconductivity Conference (2006 – 2012)
• Co-founder of the Global Young Academy (GYA) (since 2009)(www.globalyoungacademy.net)
• Chairman of the ‘Studium Generale’, University of Twente, (2007–2013)
• Coordinator of the FOM programme ‘Interphase – New electronic and magnetic states at interfaces in complex oxide heterostructures’, (2008-2014)
• Coordinator of the FOM programma ‘Tailoring 2-dimensional electron systems in complex oxides’, (since 2013)
• Coordinator of the European Science Foundation (ESF) programme PiShift (2001-2007).
• Principal investigator of the INTAS program ‘Charge transport in metal-diboride thin films and heterostructures’ (2002-2006).

Awards and recognitions:

• Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE).  (2024) 
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).  (2019)  
• Elected member Royal Holland Society of Science and Humanities (KHMW).  (2018)
• Colloquium Ehrenfestii, University of Leiden, 18 February 2009. (2009)
• ‘VICI’-grant from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (2008)
• Central Education Prize University of Twente 2007 (2007)
• Selected in 2004 as member of ‘The Young Academy’, part of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences KNAW. In 2007 elected as board member (2 years) with focus areas: ‘Science Policy in The Netherlands’ and 'Media-relations’.
• ‘VIDI’-grant from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (2002)
• Best Scientific Contribution Award in Superconducting Electronics
  EUCAS 2001 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark (2001)
• Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Research Fellowship (1997)
• IBM Patent Application Award (1996)

Selected key publications (in reverse chronological order):

B. Folkers, T. Jansen, T.J. Roskamp, P. Reith, A. Timmermans, D. Jannis, N. Gauquelin, J. Verbeeck, H. Hilgenkamp and C.M.M. Rosario, 'Imaging the suppression of ferromagnetism in LaMnO₃ by metallic overlayers, Physical Review Materials 8, 054408 (2024).

X. Gao, T.J. Roskamp, T. Swoboda, C.M.M. Rosario, S. Smink, M. Muñoz Rojo and H Hilgenkamp, 'Multibridge VO₂-based resistive switching devices in a two-terminal configuration', Advanced Electronic Materials 9, aelm.202300304 (2023). 

X. Gao, C.M.M. Rosario and H. Hilgenkamp, 'Multi-level operation in VO₂-based resistive switching devices', AIP Advances 12, 015218 (2022).

H. Hilgenkamp and X. Gao, 'Exploring the path of the variable resistance', Science (Perspective) 373, 854 (2021).

A. Rana, C. Li, G. Koster and H. Hilgenkamp, 'Resistive switching studies in VO₂ thin films', Scientific Reports 10, 3293 (2020).

A.E.M. Smink, J.C. de Boer, M.P. Stehno, W.G. van der Wiel, H. Hilgenkamp, ‘Gate-tunable band structure of the LaAlO₃-SrTiO₃ interface’, Physical Review Letters118, 106401 (2017).

X. Renshaw Wang, C.J. Li, W.M. Lü, T.R. Paudel, D.P. Leusink, M. Hoek, N. Poccia, A. Vailionis, T. Venkatesan, J.M.D. Coey, E.Y. Tsymbal, Ariando and H. Hilgenkamp, ‘Imaging and control of ferromagnetism in LaMnO₃/SrTiO₃ heterostructures’, Science 349, 716 (2015).

N. Poccia, T.I. Baturina, F. Coneri, C.G. Molenaar, X. Renshaw Wang, G. Bianconi, A. Brinkman, H. Hilgenkamp, A.A. Golubov and V.M. Vinokur, ‘Critical behavior at a dynamic vortex insulator-to-metal transition’, Science 349, 1202-1205 (2015). 

M. Veldhorst, M. Snelder, M. Hoek, T. Gang, V.K. Guduru, X.L. Wang, U. Zeitler, W.G. van der Wiel, A.A. Golubov, H. Hilgenkamp and A. Brinkman, ‘Josephson supercurrent through a topological insulator surface state’, Nature Materials doi:10.1038/nmat3255 (2012).

T. Brück, C. Beaudry, H. Hilgenkamp, N. Karoonuthaisiri, H.S. Mohamed and G.A. Weiss, 'Empowering Young Scientists', Science (Editorial) 328, 17 (2010).

A. Brinkman, M. Huijben, M. van Zalk, J. Huijben, U. Zeitler, J.K. Maan, W.G. van der Wiel, G. Rijnders, D.H.A. Blank and H. Hilgenkamp, ‘Magnetic effects at the interface between nonmagnetic oxides’, Nature Materials 6, 493-496 (2007).

T. Ortlepp, Ariando, O. Mielke, C.J.M. Verwijs, K.F.K. Foo, H. Rogalla, F.J.H. Uhlmann, H. Hilgenkamp, 'Flip-flopping fractional flux quanta', Science 312, 1495-1497 (2006).

J.R. Kirtley, C.C. Tsuei, Ariando, C.J.M. Verwijs, S. Harkema, and H. Hilgenkamp, 'Angle-resolved phase-sensitive determination of the in-plane gap symmetry in YBa₂Cu₃O₇', Nature Physics 2, 190-194 (2006).

H. Hilgenkamp, Ariando, H.J.H. Smilde, D.H.A. Blank, G. Rijnders, H. Rogalla, J.R. Kirtley and C.C. Tsuei, ‘Ordering and manipulation of the magnetic moments in large-scale superconducting pi-loop arrays’, Nature 422, 50-53 (2003).

H. Hilgenkamp and J. Mannhart, 'Grain boundaries in high temperature superconductors', Reviews of Modern Physics 74, 485-549 (2002).  

G. Hammerl, A. Schmehl, R.R. Schulz, B. Goetz, H. Bielefeldt, C.W. Schneider, H. Hilgenkamp and J. Mannhart, ‘Increasing grain boundary critical currents in high-T_c superconductors at 77 K’, Nature 407, 162 (2000).

H. Hilgenkamp and J. Mannhart, ‘Superconducting and normal-state properties of YBa₂Cu₃O₇ bicrystal grain boundary junctions in thin films’, Applied Physics Letters 73, 265-267 (1998).

H. Hilgenkamp, J. Mannhart and B. Mayer, ‘Implications of d_x2-y2 symmetry and faceting for the transport properties of grain boundaries in high-T_c superconductors’, 
Physical Review B 53, 14586, (1996).

Patents:

C. Gerber, J.W.M. Hilgenkamp and J. Mannhart, ‘Apparatus for use in magnetic-field detection and generation devices’, US-patent 6211673

J.D. Mannhart, H. Bielefeldt, B.M. Götz, J.W.M. Hilgenkamp, A.F.A. Schmehl, C.W. Schneider, R.R. Schulz, ‘Superconductor with enhanced current density and method for making such a superconductor’, US-patent 6573220

H.U.Bielefeldt, B.M. Götz, G. Hammerl, J.W.M. Hilgenkamp, J.D. Mannhart, A.F.A. Schmehl, C.W. Schneider, R.R. Schulz, ‘Method for making a superconductor with enhanced current carrying capacity’ US-patent 6699820

Expertises

• Material Science

  • Oxide
  • Electronics
  • Temperature
  • Heterojunction
  • Surface

• Chemistry

  • Liquid Film

• Physics

  • Thin Films
  • Electrons

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