Editors & Contributors

Harald Fuchs is now the director of the Physical Institute of the University of Münster, Germany, after having worked at the IBM research laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, and at BASF. His research focuses on nanoanalytical methods, and interfacial physics including computer modelling. He received the Philip Morris research prize for his work on nanotechnology and is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Michael Grätzel directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds a doctor's degree from the TU Berlin and honorary doctor degrees from the Universities of Uppsala and Turin. He pioneered the research on energy and electron transfer reactions in materials and their optoelectronic applications, and discovered a new type of solar cell.

Harald Krug is now head of the Department for Materials-Biology Interactions of the Empa, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Previously he was Professor at the Institute for Toxicology and Genetics at the Research Centre Karlsruhe (FZK). His research focuses on the health and environmental risks of nanotechnology.

Günter Schmid is a Professor emeritus at the University of Essen, Germany. His research is focused on the border between chemistry and physics, especially on clusters, colloids and nanoscience. After retiring he founded a company for the applications of nanoscience. In 2003 he received the prestigious Wilhelm-Klemm award of the German Chemical Society.

Viola Vogel is heading the Laboratory for Biologically Oriented Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. Previously, she was the Founding Director of the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Washington. Her interdisciplinary research program centers on bionanotechnology.

Rainer Waser is Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the RWTH Aachen University and director of the Institute of Solid State Research (IFF) at the HGF Research Center Jülich, Germany. His research is focused on fundamental aspects of electronic materials and integrated devices, sensors and actuators.