Peter Hirschfeld received his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1985 and held postdoctoral research appointments at the Technical University of Munich and Stanford University before joining the faculty at the University of Florida in 1988. Since then, he has also served as visiting professor for a semester or more at U. Karlsruhe, U. Augsburg, U. Paris-Sud, Stanford University and the University of Frankfurt. His research specialty is in the area of superconductivity and correlated electron materials. He has supervised 14 Ph.D. students and taught physics at all levels.