Peter Awakowicz received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, in 1984, and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering and the Habilitation degree in plasma technique from the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich), Munich, Germany, in 1990 and 1999, respectively. In 1990, he became a Research Assistant at TU Munich. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Privatdozent in the research field of plasma technology at TU Munich. Since 2003, he has been leading the Institute for Electrical Engineering and Plasma Technology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany. He has been a Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center SFB-TR87 since 2010. His fields of research concern plasma technique, plasma diagnostics, and multifunctional surfaces.