Frank Vollmer obtained his PhD in 'Physics & Biology' from the Rockefeller University NYC,USA, in 2004. He then became leader of an independent research group at the Rowland Institute atHarvardUniversitywhere he was appointed Rowland Fellow from 2004 to 2009. From 2010 to 2011 he joined the Wyss Institute for Bio-Inspired Engineering atHarvardUniversityas a Scholar-in-Residence. In 2011 he was appointed group leader at the newly established Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light inErlangen,Germany. Since 2011 he is also appointed as Instructor in Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston,USA, where he directs a satellite laboratory.