Julian Schulze obtained his PhD in plasma physics from Bochum University, Germany, in 2009. After a postdoctoral stay at the Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungary, in 2010/11 he became an Assistant Professor for Plasma Physics at West Virginia University, USA, in 2013. In 2016 he returned to the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, where he is now a professor for plasma technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Physics Department of Dalian University of Technology, China, a member of the editorial board of Plasma Sources Science and Technology, and the previous Executive Committee Chair of the Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC). His research interests are focused on high frequency non-equilibrium technological plasmas, charged particle power absorption dynamics, Voltage Waveform Tailoring, plasma-surface interactions, and knowledge based plasma process development based on experiments, simulations, and modeling. Prof. Schulze has published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored more than 300 presentations at conferences in plasma science.