Rainer Adelung is full professor and Chairholder of the Functional Nanomaterials established in 2007 at the Institute for 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 (DFG grant) with his own Functional Nanomaterials group in 2012. More information is available at fnano.matwis.tf.uni-kiel.de