Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer is Professor at the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics at Kiel University, Kiel, Germany. He received his Diploma in Physics from the Technical University (TU) Munich in 1993 and his PhD in Chemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, in 1997. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher, first at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA and then at JILA at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. From 2002 to 2006 he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and from 2006 to 2011 Associate Professor at the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics at Kiel University. His research interests mainly include non-equilibrium processes in two-dimensional materials, adsorbate–interface interactions on ultrafast time scales and plasmonic excitations at interfaces.