Holger Kantz is Head of the Nonlinear Dynamics and Time Series Analysis Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, and an Adjunct Professor in Theoretical Physics at the University of Wuppertal. He obtained his Diplom in Physics at the University of Wuppertal in 1986, and completed a PhD in Physics under the supervision of Peter Grassberger in 1989. After a period as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Florence, he retuned to Wuppertal in 1991 as a scientific and teaching assistant, and completed his Habilitation in Theoretical Physics in 1996.

His research interests include deterministic chaos, nonlinear stochastic processes, statistical physics, time series analysis, and the atmospheric boundary layer. He has published around 90 articles in international journals on these topics, as well as 3 volumes of proceedings, and is the co-author (with Thomas Schreiber) of a textbook on Nonlinear Time Series Analysis which is published by Cambridge University Press.