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Andreas Dirk Wieck was born in Hamburg on June 8, 1958, Germany. After studies of physics at the University of Hamburg, he got his Diploma in Physics 1984, discovering a spin-splitting of the parallel excited intersubband-resonance in electron inversion layers on Si(110), originating in the spin-orbit-coupling and known today as the Rashba-effect. Then, he moved to the High Magnet Field Laboratory in Grenoble (France) to perform THz-spectroscopy on low-dimensional charge carrier systems in semiconductors in high magnetic fields, leading to the intersubband-cyclotron-coupling in Si and GaAs. He finished these studies 1987 with the PhD in Physics (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Hamburg und the guidance of Prof. J�rg Kotthaus. At this time, he prepared the first superconducting contacts on high-TC-superconductors which he published in 2 monographies. 1987 � 1993, he worked as a postdoc in the MPI-FKF Stuttgart under the guidance of Prof. Klaus H. Ploog in the groups of Prof. Hans Queisser and Prof. Klaus von Klitzing. In 1992 � 1993, he took a sabbatical in the NTT basic research labs, Tokyo (Japan). Since 1993, Prof. Wieck holds a full professorship (�Applied Solid-State Physics�) at the Ruhr-Universit�t Bochum. In 2004 � 2005, Prof. Wieck has been appointed by the CNRS (Paris) as a �directeur de recherche� at the CHREA in Sophia Antipolis (France). In the following periods (2007 � 2008) and (2011 � 2012) he performed sabbaticals at this CHREA Sophia Antipolis (France). Prof. Wieck received 1990 the Philip Morris Prize for the invention of the �In-Plane-Gate-Transistor�, together with Prof. Klaus von Klitzing. His research interests are IIIV-Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), Focussed Ion Beams, low dimensional quantum systems and nanoelectronics. Prof. Wieck runs actually one of the most performant MBE-groups in Germany with cooperations worldwide. He holds currently about 1250 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, 50 of them having high impact, as well as 5 patents, leading to an h-index of 69 (google scholar). There are more than 60 PhDs which finished in meantime in the group of Prof. Wieck and left in different industrial and scientific directions, 5 of them occupying already professorships around the world in the research field of applied solid state physics.