Wolfram Fürbeth has a Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Dortmund. In 1992, he went to the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research to start work on corrosion in the group of Martin Stratmann, moving to Erlangen as the chair for Corrosion and Surface Technology in 1994. There, he finished his Ph.D. in Materials Sciences in 1997. In the same year, he joined DECHEMA as a research scientist, appointed in 2005 as head of the corrosion research group at DECHEMA Research Institute. In 2012, he finished his habilitation in materials technology at RWTH Aachen Technical University, where he gave lectures on corrosion and corrosion protection. Finally, RWTH appointed him as Adjunct Professor in 2018. His current research interests are in new coating systems, as well as corrosion of new materials, and in new technologies. Since March 2017, he has been a member of the Institute Directorate of DECHEMA Research Institute. In the scientific community, Wolfram Fürbeth has served since 2017 as head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Corrosion Society. In the EFC, he has served as chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee since 2017 and as chairman of Working Party Coatings since 2012.