Joerg Lahann is Dow Corning Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan (USA). He was educated at the University of Saarland (Germany) and obtained his PhD at RWTH Aachen (Germany) in Macromolecular Chemistry. From 1999 to 2001, Joerg Lahann was a postdoctoral associate in the Chemical Engineering Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and he then spent one year at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (HMST). He joined the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan in 2003. Professor Lahann has received a number of honors and awards including Technology Review TR100 Young Innovator Award, NSF CAREER Award, the Justus-Liebig Fellowship of the Fonds of the German Industry, Sigma XI - Full Membership, German Science Foundation Postdoctoral Grant, Borchers Prize of the RWTH Aachen (given to graduate students for an outstanding performance), and the Young Student Achievement Award of the Fonds of the German Industry. His research interests are broadly related to surface engineering as well as biomedical engineering and nanotechnology.