Peer Fischer is a Professor of Experimental Physics (Molecular Systems Engineering) and he heads the independent Micro Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg. He is also a Global Faculty member of the Advanced Science Institute and the Institute for Basic Science Center for NanoMedicine (IBS CNM) at Yonsei University, South Korea. He used to be a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Stuttgart.