Aron Beekman
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Computational physics expert, formerly researcher in fundamental condensed matter physics
location : Eindhoven area, The Netherlands
Curriculum Vitae
last update: October 3rd, 2026
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Professional Positions
- 2021 –
- Sioux Technologies Mathware, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2026 – Architect
2025 – Technology Manager Computational Physics
2024 – 2025 Senior Designer
2021 – 2023 Senior Engineer
- 2020 – 2021
- freelance, Tokyo, Japan
Scientific software developer - 2015 – 2020
- Department of Physics, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2015
- NIMS Advanced Key Technologies Division, Tsukuba, Japan
Postdoctoral Researcher - 2012 – 2015
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RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako, Japan
Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher
Education
- 2006 – 2011
- PhD Theoretical Physics
Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands
thesis: “Vortex duality in Higher Dimensions”
advisor: Jan Zaanen - 1998 – 2005
- MSc Theoretical Physics
Institute for theoretical physics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
thesis: “Quantum double symmetries of the even dihedral groups and their breaking”
advisor: Sander Bais
Skills
- Languages
- Dutch (native), English (fluent); Japanese, French, German (intermediate)
- Programming
- proficient in Python, C++, SQL
familiar with C, Haskell, HTML, CSS, PHP, ColdFusion, Java, JavaScript, Mathematica, Sage
Scientific supplement
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Academic Activities
- fall 2006
- Teaching Assistant, PhD course Advanced Theory of Condensed Matter by Jan Zaanen
- spring 2007
- Teaching Assistant, MSc course Field Theory by Pierre van Baal
- fall 2007
- Teaching Assistant, MSc course Theory of Condensed Matter by David Santiago
- 2007 – 2011
- PhD council Dutch Research School for Theoretical Physics
- 2012 – 2015
- Organizer RIKEN Interdisciplinary Discovery Evenings
- 2017
- Co-organizer “Topological Science Workshop” Keio University
Research Grants
- 2018 – 2020
- JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Grant No. 18K13502)
Publications
My papers on: arXiv • Inspire • Google Scholar • ResearcherID • ORCID
- Theory of generalized Josephson effects
A.J. Beekman, PTEP 2020, 073B09 (2020), arXiv:1907.13284
- Stability and absence of a Tower of States in ferrimagnets
L. Rademaker, A.J. Beekman, J. van Wezel, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013304 (2020), arXiv:1909.11381
- An introduction to spontaneous symmetry breaking A.J. Beekman, L. Rademaker, J. van Wezel, SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 11 (2019), arXiv:1909.01820
- Charged and neutral fixed points in the O(N)+O(N)-model with Abelian gauge fields
A.J. Beekman, G. Fejos, Phys. Rev. D, 100, 016005 (2019), arXiv:1903.05331 - Dual gauge field theory of quantum liquid crystals in three dimensions
A.J. Beekman, J. Nissinen, K. Wu, J. Zaanen, Phys. Rev. B 96, 165115 (2017) (Editors' suggestion), arXiv:1703.03157 - Dual gauge field theory of quantum liquid crystals in two dimensions
A.J. Beekman, J. Nissinen, K. Wu, K. Liu, R.-J. Slager, Z. Nussinov, V. Cvetkovic, J. Zaanen, Phys. Rep. 683, 1–110 (2017), arXiv:1603.04254 - Criteria for the absence of quantum fluctuations after spontaneous symmetry breaking
A.J. Beekman, Ann. Phys. 361, 461–489 (2015), arXiv:1408.1691 - Photodrive of magnetic bubbles via magnetoelastic waves
N. Ogawa, W. Koshibae, A.J. Beekman, N. Nagaosa, M. Kubota, M. Kawasaki, Y. Tokura, PNAS 112(29), 8977–8981 (2015) - Theory of magnon-skyrmion scattering in chiral magnets
J. Iwasaki, A.J. Beekman and N. Nagaosa, Phys. Rev. B 89, 064412 (2014), arXiv:1309.2361 - Deconfining the rotational Goldstone mode: the superconducting nematic liquid crystal in 2+1D
A.J. Beekman, K. Wu, V. Cvetkovic and J. Zaanen, Phys. Rev. B 88, 024121 (2013), arXiv:1301.7329 - Type-II Bose-Mott insulators
A.J. Beekman and J. Zaanen, Phys. Rev. B 86, 125129 (2012) (Editors' suggestion), arXiv:1207.0286 - The emergence of gauge invariance: the stay-at-home gauge versus local–global duality
J. Zaanen and A.J. Beekman, Annals of Physics 327(4):1146–1161 (2012), arXiv:1108.2791 - Electrodynamics of Abrikosov vortices: the field theoretical formulation
A.J. Beekman and J. Zaanen, Frontiers of Physics 6(4):357–369 (2011), arXiv:1106.3946 - Condensing Nielsen-Olesen strings and the vortex-boson duality in 3+1 and higher dimensions
A.J. Beekman, D. Sadri and J. Zaanen, New J Phys 13:033004 (2011), arXiv:1006.2267