Pedro Schlottmann received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich (Germany) in 1973. After postdoctoral appointments at the Max-Planck Institute in Munich, the Freie Universitaet Berlin and U.C. Berkeley, he became Assistant Professor at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and a Heisenberg Fellow of the German National Science Foundation. He was a research scientist at the Kernforschungsanlage Juelich (1982-1985) and joined the Physics Department of Temple University in Philadelphia in 1985.  Since 1990, he is a Professor of Physics at Florida State University.

His research interests are Condensed Matter Theory, Many-Body Physics and Statistical Mechanics with special emphasis on strongly correlated electrons, in particular, heavy fermions, quantum criticality, manganites, magnetism, and mesoscopic systems.