Ronald Hanson

He is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology and scientific director of QuTech.

He was recruited for the Japan Prizewinners Programme, a one-year postgraduate course for outstanding Dutch graduates with a university master's degree.

In 2005 he graduated in a PhD in physics from Delft University of Technology, supervised by Leo Kouwenhoven.

During 2005–2007 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, supervised by David Awschalom.

Jointly with Stephanie Wehner and David Elkouss, Hanson has published a roadmap towards a future quantum Internet[10] From 2010 until 2015, Hanson was elected member of De Jonge Akademie (the Young Academy)[11] of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).