François M. Peeters is a Belgian physicist. Peeters obtained his doctorate at the

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and completed postdoctoral research at

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and

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. He subsequently returned to Belgium and joined the Antwerp faculty. In 2005, Peeters was elected a fellow of the

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, which recognized him " r his sustained, important contributions to theoretical solid state physics, in particular to the areas of mesoscopic superconductivity and nanostructured semiconductors." Peeters' election as a member of

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took place in 2010. In 2020, Peeters succeeded Aron Pinczuk as editor-in-chief of the journal ''

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''.

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