Prof. Dr. Arno Schindlmayr graduated from RWTH Aachen University and earned his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge. He was a research associate at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin as well as the Forschungszentrum Jülich and is now a professor at the Department of Physics, Universität Paderborn. He has published 60 papers in various journals and is a project leader within the Collaborative Research Center "Tailored nonlinear photonics" funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He is a member of the Council of the German Physical Society and of the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Agency for Study Programmes in Engineering, Informatics, Natural Sciences and Mathematics. His research interests focus on ab initio calculations of the electronic and optical properties of materials, and his teaching disciplines include computational physics and solid state theory.