Dr. Ulrike Woggon studied Physics at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (1977-1980) and the Humboldt-University Berlin (1980-1982), Germany. In 1985 she received the academic degree Dr. rer. nat. in Experimental Physics from the Humboldt-University Berlin. Awarded by a habilitation grant of the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)” in 1992, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Klingshirn at the University of Kaiserlautern. In 1995 she finished the Habilitation Thesis entitled “Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots”, which has been published as a monograph for the Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Since 1997 she is a Full Professor in Experimental Physics at the University of Dortmund. Presently, she is the coordinator of a topical PhD-program “Materials and Concepts for Quantum Information Processing” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the Department of Physics of the University of Dortmund. Her research interests are ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductor quantum dots, single-dot spectroscopy, quantum dots in microcavities and other photonic materials which resulted in more then 100 publications in refereed journals. The group is part of several projects funded by the European Union and the National Science Foundation of Germany (DFG) in research areas of photon-mediated phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures, optical properties of quantum dots and photonic structures.