Brief Bio:

Janine Splettstötßer received her Diploma in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany in 2003 and her PhD in 2007 as a combined degree from Ruhr-Universitätt Bochum in Germany and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Italy. After a postdoctoral research stay in the group of Markus Büttiker in Geneva in Switzerland, she has led a junior research group at the RWTH Aachen in Germany from 2009 to 2013. She is now an Associate Professor at the Department for Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers, Gothenburg, in Sweden. Janine Splettstößer's research in the field of Theoretical Physics deals with electronic and thermal properties and the dynamics of nanoscale devices.