Christian Schönenberger (born 5 July 1956 in Zürich[1]) is a Swiss experimental physicist and professor at the University of Basel working on nanoscience and nanoelectronics.
As a graduate student, he worked under the supervision of Heinrich Rohrer (Nobel Prize laureate in 1986) and S. Alvarado at the IBM Research Laboratory at Rüschlikon and received his PhD in physics with a thesis on magnetic force microscopy in 1990.
[1] He then joined the Philips Research Laboratories at Eindhoven in the Netherlands as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a permanent staff member.
Subsequently, he and his group studied transport in increasingly smaller natural and engineered nanoscale devices operating in the quantum regime.
[4] In particular, he and his group are a leader in the study of electronic properties of "hybrid" devices, that combine normal metals with superconductors and ferromagnetic elements.