Heiner Linke is a Professor of Nanophysics 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. Since 2013, he is the Director of the Center for Nanoscience at Lund University (NanoLund), an interdisciplinary research environment engaging about 300 scientists in three faculties. His research interests focus on energy conversion at the nanoscale, including molecular motors and thermoelectrics. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (physics class) in 2014.