Heiner Linke is a Professor of Nanophysics and Deputy Dean (prorector) of the Faculty of Engineering LTH at Lund University in Sweden. Between 1998 - 2001 he was a research fellow in Sydney/Australia, before joining the physics department at the University of Oregon in 2001 where he received indefinite tenure in 2005 and remained until 2009). During 2013 - 2020 he was the Director of the Center for Nanoscience at Lund University (NanoLund), an interdisciplinary research environment engaging more than 350 scientists in three faculties. He has been the coordinator of five EU projects in the areas of nanoscale energy conversion and biocomputing, most lately an ERC Synergy project on artificial molecular motors. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (physics class) in 2014. In 2021 he was appointed to the Committee of Experts of the German Excellence Strategy.