Professor Jari Kinaret is the leader of the Condensed Matter Theory (CMT) group at the Department of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). He has a background in theoretical physics and electrical engineering and received his PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. He has been at Chalmers since 1995 and his research focuses on electrical and mechanical phenomena on the nanoscale. Kinaret is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).