Wilfried Wunderlich studied physics at the University of Braunschweig, Germany, and received his Ph.D. from the Max-Planck Institute for Metal Research in association with University of Stuttgart, Germany in 1987. During his first post-doc stay at the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1987 his HRTEM studies on nano-materials were awarded by the Japan Institute of Metals. From 1988 to 1992 he was Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institute of Iron and Steel Research in Duesseldorf, Germany and thereafter he continued research activities in Halle, Aachen, Kiel (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Vitry (France). From 1998 to 1999 he held a JSPS Fellowship spending time at the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan (1998-1999), and was called there as Associate Professor for nano-ceramics in 2001. In 2004 he started his present research on thermoelectric ceramics at Nagoya University, Japan under the prestigious JST/CREST project. He received the call to his present position as associate professor at Tokai University, Material Science Dempartment in Kanagawa, Japan in April 2006. Wilfried Wunderlich is also recipient of the Werner-Koester-prize of the German Material Society DGM.