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André Anders is the Founder/CEO of Plasma Engineering LLC with Guest Affiliations in Berkeley, California, Leipzig, Germany, and Ben Guerir, Morocco.  Until Spring 2025, he was appointed Professor of Applied Physics at Leipzig University and Director and CEO of the Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering, Leipzig, Germany.  He assumed these positions in 2017 after working for 25 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA, USA.  He studied physics in Wroclaw, Poland, Berlin, (East) Germany, and Moscow (Russia, then Soviet Union), to obtain his PhD degree from Humboldt University in Berlin in 1987. André has worked in plasma physics and materials sciences, especially on thin film deposition and surface engineering. He has authored 3 books and about 400 peer-reviewed journal papers (h 81, > 26,000 citations, Google Scholar). For ten years, 2014-2024, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Physics published by AIP Publishing, Melville, NY.  André is one of the AVS Directors for the 2026/27 term.