The recent progress in the amazing world of endohedral fullerenes occurs on both sides of the fullerene: new carbon cages including non-IPR structures as well as new species encaged in the inner fullerene void. A general principle is nowadays used in endohedral fullerene research: the stabilising ability of both the encaged structure for the fullerene cage architecture and of the fullerene cage for the encaged (cluster) species.

(1) Leibniz-Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden, Germany, Professor, Head of the Group of Electrochemistry and Conducting Polymers
(2) Carbon nanostructures (Fullerenes, peapods); conducting polymers; spectroelectrochemistry
(3) Published 13 books, more than 300 papers and 16 patents. Awards include Agricola-Medaille, TU Bergakademie Freiberg (1974), Leibniz-Medaille, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin (1986), Heyrovský-Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (1990).