André Anders is a Senior Staff Scientist and the Leader of the Plasma Applications Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. He studied physics in Poland, Germany, and Russia. He holds an M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. degree ( 1987) in physics from Humboldt University, Berlin. He was with the Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1987-1991, and moved to Berkeley, CA, in 1992. His research interests include coatings by sputtering and cathodic arcs, plasma immersion ion implantation, and plasma and ion source development. He has authored about 160 papers in refereed journals and holds several patents. He is the author of A Formulary for Plasma Physics (Akademie, Berlin, 1990), the editor and co-author of the Handbook of Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation and Deposition (Wiley, NY, 2000); and Cathodic Arc Plasma Deposition, (to be published by Springer, NY). He serves on several international advisory committees of conferences and on the Editorial Board of Surf. & Coat. Technol. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IoP (UK), and a member of MRS, AVS, and SVC. He received the Chatterton Award (1994) and an R&D 100 Award (1997).