Michael R. Buchmeiser received his Doctoral Degree in Organometallic Chemistry in 1993 from the University of Innsbruck, Austria (Prof. Dr H. Schottenberger). He was awarded an “Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship” and spent one year at MIT, USA, within the group of Prof. Richard R. Schrock (Chemistry Nobel Prize 2005). In 1998, he finished his “Habilitation” in Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck, where he then held a Faculty Position as Associate Professor from 1998 to 2004. From 2000 to 2001, he was Visiting Professor at the Graz University of Technology, Austria. In 2004, he accepted a Faculty Position (C-4 Professor) at the University of Leipzig, Germany. In addition, from 2005 to 2009, he served as Vice Director and Member of the Board at the Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification (IOM), Leipzig, Germany. Since 2009, he has held a Faculty Position (Full Professor) at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and is a Member of the Board of Directors at DITF Denkendorf, Germany. Since 2018, he is also spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center CRC 1333 “Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis in Confined Geometries”. So far, he has published more than 500 scientific papers and has filed more than 60 patents. For his scientific work, he received the “Professor Ernst Brandl Research Award 1998”, the “START Award-2001” the “Novartis Award 2001”, the “Otto-Roelen Medal of the German Catalytic Society” (2010), and the Hermann F. Mark Medal (2022).