Henk van Houten
Henk van Houten (* 1957 ) is a Dutch physicist (solid state physics) and research manager at Philips .
Van Houten studied physics at the University of Leiden , where he received his doctorate in 1984. He then did research for the Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM) and from 1985 for the North American Philips Corporation (in the research laboratories in Briar Cliff, New York), among other things on quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures and semiconductor lasers in the blue spectral range, where from 1991 to 1996 he was head of the experimental and theoretical physics department at Philips Research in Eindhoven .
From 1996 to 2001 he headed the optics department, where he was actively involved in the standards for Blu-ray Disc . In 2001/02 he headed the Storage Signal Processing department. In 2002 he became program manager for Lighting, Devices and Microsystems , 2005 program manager health care and from 2005 to 2009 he was general manager of Philips Research in Aachen . In 2003 he became Senior Vice President of Philips Research and in 2010 CEO of Philips Research, succeeding Peter Wierenga.
In 1993 he received the Royal Dutch Shell Physics Prize with Carlo Beenakker and Bart van Wees . In 1988 he found quantum dot contacts with both of them (with quantized conductivity).
He has been on the board of directors of the Royal Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen since 2003 . He is on the boards of Advies, Biomedical Technologies, and the Center for Translational Molecular Medicine (CTMM).
He is the older brother of Frans van Houten (* 1960), the CEO of Philips.
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| SURNAME | Houten, Henk van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |