Şerban Mişicu is Senior Researcher at the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Atomic Physics Bucharest, and habilitation from J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow (2000-2001, 2005 and 2012), received the Marie Curie fellowship (2001-2003), the DFG fellowship (1999, 2013), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory (2005-2006).