Prof. Jan Ingo Flege received his PhD in Physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany in 2004. After completing two postdoctoral positions (2004/05: University of Bremen, Germany; 2006/07: Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, United States) he joined the group of Prof. Dr. Jens Falta at the Institute of Solid State Physics at the University of Bremen as research associate in 2008. Besides teaching, he designs and leads the research projects targeting growth, characterization, and manipulation of transition metal and rare-earth oxides surfaces and interfaces as well as graphene. His research interests include surface physics and chemistry, model heterogeneous catalysis, transition metal and rare-earth oxides, and low-dimensional materials.