Michael J. Schöning received his diploma degree in electrical engineering (1989) and his PhD in the field of semiconductor-based microsensors for the detection of ions in liquids (1993), both from the Karlsruhe University of Technology. In 1989, he joined the Institute of Radiochemistry at the Research Centre Karlsruhe. Since 1993, he has been with the Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (now, Institute of Biological Information Processing, IBI-3) at the Research Centre Jülich, and in 1999 he was appointed as full professor at Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Campus Jülich. Since 2007, he has served as a director of the Institute of Nano- and Biotechnologies (INB) at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences. His main research subjects concern silicon-based chemical and biological sensors, thin-film technologies, solid-state physics, microsystems and nano(bio-)technology. He has 464 publications with 10,934 citations and an h-index of 54 (Scopus, 4. December 2023).