Huib Bakker (AMOLF Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam) is world leader in time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy. He was the first to use femtosecond vibrational spectroscopy to study the properties of liquid water. He brings to ANION a wealth of theoretical and experimental knowledge and expertise in time-resolved spectroscopy for studying the structural and dynamical properties of water and electrolytes at electrochemical interfaces. Bakker was appointed full professor at the University of Amsterdam in 2001, and has been advisor (promotor) of 17 successfully defended PhD theses. Three of his PhD students won the prize for the best PhD thesis in Physics in The Netherlands. Huib Bakker was elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2015, and his scientific accomplishments have been recognized by awards such as the Gold Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (2005) and the ERC Advanced Grant (2016). His international leadership is evidenced by his role in editorial boards (Chemical Physics Letters, ChemPhysChem, and Chemical Physics). Since 2003 Huib Bakker serves as Head of the Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam. AMOLF is one of the research laboratories of the Dutch Science Council, NWO. With a yearly budget of 15 million euro, AMOLF employs about 150 research staff and 50 support staff. In recent years, Bakker had collaborative research projects with industrial partners within Wetsus (Top-institute for research on water), and with Danone and Unilever on the effects of co-solutes on protein conformation in aqueous solutions. Recently a large collaboration with Unilever was established, in which the properties of emulsions of oil droplets in water are studied. In another recently started project together with British Petroleum, Bakker studies the effects of ions on the interfacial properties of water and oil. Bakker also played a central role in establishing the recently founded Advanced Research Center for Nano-lithography (ARCNL). This institute (100 people, 10 M€/year) is jointly financed by ASML and academic partners (NWO, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).