Magnus Rueping studied at the Technical University of Berlin, Trinity College Dublin and ETH Zürich, where he completed his diploma thesis under the direction of Professor Dieter Seebach. He stayed in the Seebach group and obtained his Ph.D. from the ETH in 2002. Magnus then moved to Harvard University to work with Professor David Evans. In August 2004, he was directly appointed to a C3-professorship, the Degussa Endowed Professorship of Synthetic Organic Chemistry at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt. After four years in Frankfurt, Magnus received several offers of academic positions and decided to accept a Chair and Full Professorship at RWTH Aachen University. Subsequently, he was appointed Professor of Chemical and Biological Sciences at KAUST and Associate Director of the KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC). His group’s research activities are directed toward the development and simplification of catalytic methodology and technology, and their application in the sustainable synthesis of diverse functional molecules. Over the years the group has developed new catalysts and catalytic concepts involving various types of catalysis: homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, asymmetric catalysis, metal catalysis, organocatalysis and biocatalysis, photo(redox) catalysis, electrocatalysis, and mechanocatalysis. In addition the group is involved in the development of continuous flow (micro)reactor systems, including feedback algorithms and in-operando analytics.