Pieter Kruit is full professor of physics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He has had a chair in charged particle optics since 1989, heading a group with three permanent scientific staff, five technical staff and on average eight PhD students. He is (co-)author of more than 200 publications in refereed international journals, author of more than 60 international patents, and has supervised more than 30 PhD dissertations.

His research is always related to the development of electron- and ion-optical instruments, “trying to improve our eyes to look at the microscopic world and the hands that we use to create a new nano-world”. He has had research programs on nm-resolution electron spectroscopy, developments of low energy-spread electron- and ion sources and multi-beam optics for microscopy and lithography. Most of his work is performed in cooperation with industry. For his work in electron lithography he founded, with two of his graduates, MAPPER Lithography. This company has now grown to more than 250 employees. His involvement in trying to reduce magnetic disturbances from a planned tramway through the university has led to a novel current supply system to be implemented on the Delft campus. Based on his ideas on combining electron microscopy with light microscopy, he started a new company with some of his coworkers and students. Among his organizational responsibilities was the presidency of the Dutch Society for Microscopy, the editorship of Ultramicroscopy and the directorship of the Delft physics education. In acknowledgement for his contributions he received the national physics “Valorization award” and the University’s yearly teaching award. In 2012 he was knighted in the order of the Dutch Lion. 

• Overview of publications and patents 

Multi electron beam microscopy for 3D biology
Multi electron beam semiconductor inspection
High brightness ion source development
Quantum Electron Microscopy
Correlative light-electron microscopy
Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
Simulation of electron-matter interaction

1970-1972
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

1972-1978
Delft University of Technology, Cum Laude M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics

1978-1982
PhD studies at FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), PhD degree at University of Amsterdam 

1983-1985
Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

1985-1989
Research Associate at TU Delft, Department of Applied Physics.

1989-
Full Professor and head of research group Charged Particle Optics, TU Delft

1995-1998
Head of Department of Applied Physics (300+ employees). 

2007-2014
Director of Education Applied Physics Bachelor. Sabbaticals at Arizona State University and Monash Center for Electron Microscopy

1993-1998
President of Dutch Society for Microscopy (500+ members)

1993-2003
Editor of Ultramicroscopy, an Elsevier science journal of 20 issues/year.

1998-2005
Chairman Scientific Counsel of TNO-TPD, an applied research organization with 500 employees.

1998-2003
Member of Board of Directors FOM, the national physics funding organization. 

1998
Chairman 5th International Conference on Charged Particle Optics (CPO-5).1998-2006 Member of TU Delft committees on ethics and on “focus on education”, 

2000-
Co-founder and first CEO of MAPPER Lithography B.V., a company with presently 200 employees developing advanced electron lithography equipment. Now member of the Supervisory Board.

2000-2008
Member of KNAW board on Physics and Astronomy (RNS, later TWINS)

2004
Program Chairman MNE2004, international conference with 300+ participants.

2005
Inventor of compensation system for railway magnetic disturbances and member of implementation committee in Campus TU Delft

2007-2011
President of the board of the Foundation “Delft Kennisstad” (Delft  Center of Technology)

2007-2011
President of the supervising board “Studium Generale” of TU Delft.

2010-
Co-founder of DELMIC B.V., a company that commercializes the latest developments in correlative electron–light microscopy.2011 Recipient of the “FOM valorization award”. 

2012
Knighthood in the order of the Dutch Lion.2013 Recipient of the Delft University “Leermeesterprijs”.

Signed December 12, 2016