Burkard Hillebrands holds a chair in experimental and applied physics at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. His research interest lies is spin dynamics and spin transport phenomena, and specifically in magnonics. He is interested in magnon properties, particularly in magnon propagation, nonlinear magnonic phenomena, magnonic crystals, magnon gases, magnon condensates and magnonic supercurrent phenomena as well as in applications of magnonics in future data processing technologies. His particular technical interest is in the development of space-, time- and phase resolved Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy.  He is member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, he is IEEE Fellow, APS Fellow and Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London. He serves, among others, on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society and as Secretary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Commission C9: Magnetism. In 2005 he was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society.