Dmitri A. Molodov is a Professor at the Institute of Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics at the RWTH Aachen University. He earned his Doctorate at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1985. After several years of postdoctoral research positions, he came to the Institute of Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics at the RWTH Aachen as an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow and became full Professor in 2006. He has so far published over 100 publications in international scientific journals and contributed to about 70 conferences. His research interests include characterization and control of microstructure and texture evolution in metal and alloys, as well as dynamics of interfaces in solids.