Current research interests focus on magnetic nanostructures and materials to be exploited in spintronics, magnonics and spin caloritronics. He studied physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and entered the Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany, in 1990 for his Diploma and PhD theses working on superconducting sensors for biomagnetism and medical applications. In 1995 Dirk Grundler joined the Microstructure Research Center at the Institute for Applied Physics of University of Hamburg as a postdoctoral researcher investigating magnetic properties of low-dimensional electron systems and semiconductor spintronics. He received the habilitation in experimental physics at University of Hamburg in 2001. From 2005 to 2015 he was professor at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany, holding the chair of “Physics of functional multilayers”. Websites: lmgn.pfl.ch, skyrmions.epfl.ch