This major reference work is a one-shot knowledge base on electroporation and the use of pulsed electric fields of high intensity and their use in biology, medicine, biotechnology, and food and environmental technologies. The Handbook offers a widespread and well-structured compilation of 156 chapters ranging from the foundations to applications in industry and hospital. It is edited and written by most prominent researchers in the field. With regular updates and growing in its volume it is suitable for academic readers and researchers regardless of their disciplinary expertise, and will also be accessible to students and serious general readers.

The Handbook's 276 authors have established scholarly credentials and come from a wide range of disciplines. This is crucially important in a highly interdisciplinary field of electroporation and the use of pulsed electric fields of high intensity and its applications in different fields from medicine, biology, food processing, agriculture, process engineering, energy and environment. An Editorial Board of distinguished scholars from across the world has selected and reviewed the various chapters to ensure the highest quality of this Handbook.

The book was edited by an international team of Section Editors P. Thomas Vernier, Boris Rubinsky, Juergen Kolb, Damijan Miklavcic, Marie-Pierre Rols, Javier Raso, Richard Heller, Gregor Sersa, Dietrich Knorr, and Eugene Vorobiev.

Damijan Miklavčič

Born: July 19, 1963, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Address: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Trzaska 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: +386 1 4768 456
Fax: +386 1 4264 658
E-mail: damijan.miklavcic@fe.uni-lj.si

Education:
1987 B.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Ljubljana)
1991 M.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Ljubljana)
1993 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Ljubljana)

Position:
1993-present Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
1993-1994 Associate Researcher
1994-1997 Assistant Professor
1995-1996 Visiting researcher at the Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France&

Awards:
1986 Preseren Award for Students, University of Ljubljana
1989 International Award of the Maphre Foundation (Spain)
1993 National Industrial Award of Krka Pharmaceuticals
1995 Award of the Republic of Slovenia for Scientific and Research Achivements [the ceremony]
2003 Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Science [the ceremony]
2008 Vodovnik Prize for Exceptional Research [the ceremony]
2008 Knight of the Order of Academic Palms of the

Bibliography:
Prof. Miklavčič has authored or co-authored over 360 original articles in scientific journals. His works have been cited over 5500 times (Sources: WoS - self citations excluded). Go to the link for a printout of his complete bibliography: http: //splet02.izum.si/cobiss/bibliography?code=10268&langbib=eng

- Member of the Council of the Bioelectrochemical Society (2009-)

- President of the International Society for Electroporation-Based Technologies and Treatments (2016-)

- Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Slovenian Forum on Non-Ionising Electromagnetic Radiation

- Associate Editor of Bioelectromagnetics (2005-2007)

- Member of the working group for preparation of the safety standards related to non-ionising radiation at Slovenian National Stan

- Referee for over 60 SCI-indexed journals

- Member of the Council of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia (2010-2013)