Marcus Wolff is a full Professor of Physics at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and heads the Heinrich Blasius Institute for Physical Technologies. He received his M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1993 from Hamburg University (Hamburg, Germany) and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from Helmut Schmidt University – University of the German Federal Armed Forces (Hamburg, Germany). He served as Visiting Professor at Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA) and University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (Shanghai, China). His research interests include photoacoustic and photothermal phenomena and their applications.