Vasily Moshnyaga, born 1956 in Chisinau (Republic of Moldova), studied physics at the Moscow Engineering Physical University (honor Diploma, 1979). He received his PhD in physics in 1984 (A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences) and worked in different institutes of Academy of Sciences. In 1999 he moved to the University of Augsburg (Prof. Dr. K. Samwer), and in 2005, he finished habilitation in physics at the University of Göttingen. Since 2010, he has been an apl Professor and group leader at the I. Physical Institute at the University of Göttingen.