Christian Morfonios studied physics at Athens University and received his Ph. D. at Hamburg University in the field of electronic transport in mesoscopic structures. Having developed an expertise in computational wave transport, his main current focus is the analysis and simulation of mechanisms underlying the control of electronic conductance in nanoscale circuits.
Prof. Dr. Peter Schmelcher studied physics at the University of Heidelberg and did his PhD in 1990 at the Institute for Physical Chemistry. He did his Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg after a postdoctoral research period at the University of California Santa Barbara. Since 2010 he is full professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Hamburg and is the head of the research group ’Fundamental Processes in Quantum Physics’ at the Centre for Optical Quantum Technologies.