Gerrit Ernst-Wilhelm Bauer (*1956) holds an Engineering Degree (1980) in Chemical Technology from Twente University (The Netherlands) and Doctor Degree in Physics (1984) from the Technical University Berlin (Germany) for research carried out at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute of Nuclear Research (now part of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin). After a Feodor Lynen/JSPS postdoc at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokyo (1984-86), he was a member of the Scientific Staff of the Philips Research Laboratories (1986-92), professor at the Delft University of Technology 1992-2022 (part-time since 2011), professor at the Institute for Materials Research of Tohoku University 2011-2021, part-time Professor at Groningen University 2018-2022, and Chair Professor at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences (KITS) of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 2022-2026. From 2021 he is Professor at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) of the World Premier International Research Centers Initiative (WPI) at Tohoku University, and since 2025 Distinguished Professor. His scientific oeuvre in theoretical condensed matter physics is listed here: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=M2fBq74AAAAJ&hl=en.