Prof. Gerhard Wilde is Vice Dean of the Department of Physics at the University of Münster, Germany. After receiving Diploma in Physics at the University of Cologne, he completed Ph.D. at Technical University Berlin (1997). He then worked as Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In 1999, he joined KIT as senior researcher. In 2001-2004, he leaded an “Emmy-Noether” group and headed a “University-Helmholtz-Linkage” group. In 2004-2005, he held a professorship at Saarland University. Since 2006, he holds a chair professorship at the University of Münster. He was appointed as honorary professor at several Universities in India, Austria, France and China. In 2014, he obtained the Shanghai short-term thousand talent plan and joined the international steering committee of NanoSPD. Since 2017, he is Senior PI at the Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience at Nanjing, China. He has received several awards including CSIR-Humboldt Research Award, and Alain Reza Yavari Award, etc. His research areas include nanostructured and nanocrystalline materials, functional nanostructured surfaces, microstructure evolution, defects and diffusion in solids.