  Frank W. J. Hekking performed his PhD work on "Aspects of Electron Transport
in Semiconductor Nanostructures" at the TU Delft in 1992. He then worked as a
postdoc at the University of Karlsruhe, the University of Minnesota, the
Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and the Ruhr University at
Bochum. In 1999 he joined the LPMMC (Laboratoire de Physique et Mod\' elisation
des Milieux Condens\' es) in Grenoble and was appointed Professor at the
Universit\' e Joseph Fourier and afterwards Universit\' e Grenoble Alpes. Frank
Hekking was nominated as a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, for
the periods 2002-2007 and 2012-2017. This review provides an overview of his
scientific contributions to several fields of mesoscopic electron transport and
superconductivity as well as atomic gases, and is organized along sections
describing the different themes.
