Ulrich Rist received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical and process engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His master's degree focused on energy technology, and his master's thesis at the Institute of Thermal Process Engineering was in the field of temperature evolution in lithium-ion batteries. Since February 2021, he has been a research scientist at the Institute of Applied Materials - Applied Materials Physics (IAM-AWP), which is part of KIT, with a research focus on laser-assisted printing (LIFT) processes for developing advanced 3D batteries. In 2024, he received the Best Conference Paper Award for his contribution entitled "Laser-Induced Forward Transfer - Current Approaches and the Prespectives for 4D Printing of Batteries" at the IEEE International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale.