Honorary Chairman Dieter Bimberg

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AbstractDieter H. Bimberg was born in Schrozberg/Germany on 10 July, 1942. He received the Diploma in physics and the Ph.D. degree from Goethe University Frankfurt in 1968 and 1971, respectively. From 1972 to 1979 he held a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Grenoble/France and Stuttgart/Germany. In 1979 he was appointed as Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen. Since 1981 he has held the Chair of Applied Solid State Physics at Technical University (TU) Berlin. Since 1990 he has been Executive Director of the Solid State Physics Institute at TU Berlin. From 1994 to 2006 he was Chairman of the DFG Collaborative Research Center (CRC) “Growth Related Properties of Nanostructures”. In 2007 he founded the DFG‐CRC on “Semiconductor Nano Photonics” which will operate until 2018. He has chaired the bmb+f “National Center of Competence on Nano‐Opto‐electronics” since 1998 and the joint board of the Federal Government Nanotechnology Centers of Competence since 2006. He holds guest professorships at Technion, Haifa (twice), University of California, Santa Barbara, and Hewlett‐Packard, Palo Alto/CA. His honors include the Japanese Prize of Applied Physics in 1988 and the Russian State Prize in Science and Technology in 2002. He is honorary Member of the A. F. Ioffe Physico‐Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2004 he has been full member of the German National Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina” and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dieter Bimberg has authored more than 1000 papers, 20 patents, and 6 books. The number of his citations is over 24000 and his Hirsch index is 68. His research interests include physics and technology of nano¬structures and nanostructured devices like quantum‐dot lasers and amplifiers, wide‐gap semiconductor heterostructures, GaN‐based lasers, ultrahigh‐speed photonic devices, single electron devices, and quantum cryptography (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)