Michael Huth studied Physics at Technical University Darmstadt and earned his PhD in the area of nanostructures with strong electronic correlations. Following a stay as a DFG research fellow at the »Physics Department & Center for Materials Science« at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1997 to 1998, he habilitated at Gutenberg University in 2001. Since 2002, he is a professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at Goethe University. Michael Huth published more than 194 articles in refereed journals. He is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the »Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis FELMI-ZFE« at Graz Technical University, the Institute for Microtechnologies at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Beilstein-Institut Frankfurt am Main. From 2010 to 2012, he served as dean of the Physics Department and from 2017 until his election as vice president for »Strategic Organization and Quality Development« as (alternate) member of the Senate.