Siegfried R. Waldvogel studied chemistry in Konstanz and received his PhD in 1996 from University of Bochum/Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (Prof. M. T. Reetz). After postdoctoral research in La Jolla, CA (Prof. J. Rebek, Jr.), he started his own research at the Universities of Münster and Bonn. He became full professor at JGU Mainz in 2010. His research interests are novel electro-organic transformations including bio-based feedstocks. In 2018, he cofounded ESy-Labs GmbH, which provides custom electrosynthesis and contract R&D.