J. Dabrowski: Born in Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 29, 1958. PhD, Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Science (IF PAN), Warsaw, 1989. Scientific staff member IF PAN 1983-1992; postdoctoral fellow Fritz Haber Inbstitute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany, 1990-1991; postdoctoral fellow Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, California, 1992; since 1993 with IHP-microelectronics, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Conference series chairman, Challenges in Predictive Process Simulation (1997, 2000, 2002); international advisory commmittee member, International Training Institute for Materials Scienc...