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Professor Laurens Molenkamp received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Groningen, and spent several years first

with Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven and then as Associate Professor at the RWTH in Aachen. He came to the Universität Würzburg in 1999 and is now the Chair of Experimental Physics 3 and leads the II-VI MBE unit. His research interests include quantum transport in nanostructures, semiconductor spintronics, and optical spectroscopy of semiconductors. He served as an Editor-in-Chief of Semiconductor Science and Technology (2001–2011), Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters (2001–2007), Editor of EPJ Applied Physics (2004–2015) and presently is Lead Editor of Physical Review B (2012–to date). Professor Molenkamp’s outstanding achievements have been recognized by several prizes and honors, including the Europhysics Prize (2010), American Physical Society Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (2012), European Research Council ARC-AG Award (2012), Frontier Physics Prize (2013), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation DFG (2014), the Stern-Gerlach Medal, and the King Faisal Prize (2017). He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physics Society and Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.