Wolfgang J. Parak obtained his Ph.D. at the LMU München, Germany (1999), in the group of Prof. Dr. Hermann Gaub. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, in the group of Prof. Dr. Paul Alivisatos, he returned to Munich in 2002 as Assistant Professor. From 2007 - 2017 he was Full Professor at the Philipps Universität Marburg, German. Since 2017 he is Full Professor at the Universität Hamburg, Germany.

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