Rainer Adelung is full professor and chairholder of the Functional Nanomaterials group established in 2007 at the Department of Materials Science, Kiel University, Germany. He received his Ph.D. (rer. nat.) in physics in 2000 from the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel University, and during 2001–2002 he was at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (USA) as Feodor Lynen (Alexander von Humboldt) research fellow. In 2006 he finished his Habilitation at the Institute for Materials Science in Kiel and then continued as Heisenberg Professor starting his own Functional Nanomaterials group in 2007. He published more than 380 papers (h index 71, 17000 citations, Google Scholar) and 30 patent families resulting in the funding of companies. Besides several national awards like the DGM prize he received the Dimitrie Cantimir medal from the academy of sciences of Moldova. More information at: