Arian Kriesch is working on plasmonic nanocircuits, optical antennas and NSOM as a research scientist and Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Ulf Peschel at the University of Erlangen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Germany. He is a visitor and in 2011 was a visiting scientist in the group of Prof. Harry A. Atwater at Caltech, USA. He studied at the Universities of Erlangen and York and obtained his Dipl. in physics in the group of Prof. Philip St. J. Russell at the MPL. He has authored and co-authored 8 peer-reviewed papers on plasmonics, including Kriesch, et al. Nano Lett. 2013, 13, 4539–45 and Lee, et al., Nano Lett. 2014, 14.