Dr. Tom Rother is a Senior Scientist at the German Aerospace Center. He received his Dr. rer. nat. and Dr. habil. degrees from the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University ofGreifswaldin 1987 and 1998. He was the winner of the URSI (Union Radio-ScientifiqueInternationale / International Union of Radio Science) Young Scientist Award in 1990, and received a special grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundationin 1991. His mainresearch interests are in electromagnetic theory, quantum statistics, and quantum optics. He is the author of the monograph Electromagnetic Wave Scattering on Nonspherical Particles (first and second edition), and of the monograph Green's Functions in Classical Physics, both published with Springer.

Mathematical Basics of Plane Wave Scattering.- Scattering on Single- and Two-Layered Spheres.- Scattering on Janus Spheres.- Scattering on Homogeneous Bispheres.- Literature.