Dr. András Tompos is a director of the Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at the Research Centre for Natural Sciences and president of the Hungarian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, and he graduated as a chemical engineer at Budapest University of Technology in 1994. He was a PhD student at the Central Research Institute for Chemistry, where he dealt with the design of heterogeneous catalysts for selective hydrogenation of a,b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. He defended his PhD thesis in 1999. Until 2001, he was a postdoc at RWTH Aachen studying enantioselective catalytic ring opening of mezzo epoxides by means of salen complexes embedded into zeolites. After his return to Hungary, his attention was attracted by combinatorial tools and high-throughput experimentation in the optimization of heterogeneous catalysts. He had an important role in the development of the so-called Holographic Research Strategy that can be used for the optimization of catalyst libraries. Now, his research area is related to the design of electrocatalysts for fuel cells.