Gerald Bastard received a PhD thesis from Paris 7 University on "Magneto-optical investigations of Hg1-xMnxTe alloys" in 1979. He was post-doctoral fellow at IBM between 1981and 1982 in Leo Esaki s group and regularly visits the Technical University Vienna, Institute of Industrial Science Tokyo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Lund University. Dr. Bastard is currently Directeur de Recherche CNRS (emeritus). He has written a textbook on "Wave mechanics applied to semiconductor heterostructures." Gerald Bastard is a fellow of the American Physical Society (1993) and was awarde...