Dr Tim Hiller is a Head of Chemcial Fibers and Deputy Head of the Competence Center Chemical Fibers and Nonwovens at the German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research in Denkendorf, Germany. He completed his PhD studies in Materials Science at the Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg and has been awarded the Honorary Paul-Schlack Price for his dissertation by Paul Schlack and Wilhelm Albrecht Foundation, the European Man-Made Fibres Association (CIFS) and the Austrian Man-Made Fibres Institute in 2022. He recently led several projects at DITF and has published on different topics of fiber spinning and nonwoven processing in various journals with a focus on bio-based and high performance polymers.