Dirk Helbing (*1965) is the Managing Director of the Institute for Economics and Traffic at the Dresden University of Technology, where he was appointed full professor at the age of 34. Having studied Physics and Mathematics in Göttingen, his master thesis dealt with the nonlinear modelling and multi-agent simulation of observed self-organization phenomena in pedestrian crowds. Two years later, he finished his PhD in Stuttgart on modelling social interaction processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, stochastic methods and complex systems theory, which was awarded two research prizes. After having completed his habilitation on traffic dynamics and optimization at the age of 31, he received a Heisenberg scholarship. Both theses were printed by international publishers. Apart from this, Helbing has (co-)edited several proceedings of international conferences on cooperative dynamics in socio-economic and traffic systems that he (co-)organized. He has published more than 90 papers, including several contributions to high-impact journals like Nature, Science, or Reviews of Modern Physics, which were discussed by the public media (newspapers, radio, and TV) more than 130 times. Moreover, he reviews for many interdisciplinary, physical, socio-economic, and transportation journals as well as science foundations (DFG, NSF, and others). Helbing is also (co-)editor of the Traffic Forum, the Econophysics Forum, and the Internet Journal for Cooper@tive Tr@ansport@tion Dyn@mics. He collaborates closely with international scientists, since he worked, for example, at the Weizmann Institute and Tel Aviv University in Israel, the Xerox PARC in Silicon Valley, the Eötvös University in Budapest, and the Collegium Budapest--Institute for Advanced Study in Hungary. Thanks to various multi-partner research projects, he also maintains good cooperations with the Siemens AG, the Volkswagen AG, the DaimlerChrysler AG, and other companies.