Roman Engel-Herbert, born in Dessau and raised in Rostock, Germany, returns from Pennsylvania State University in the U.S., where he held a professorship in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering since 2010, and became a faculty member in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics in 2016 and 2017. The multidisciplinary nature of his application-oriented research focuses on the synthesis of new materials using molecular beam epitaxy.