Prof. Dr.-Ing. Simon Thiele completed his PhD on tomography for fuel cells at the University of Freiburg in 2013. From 2011 until 2017 he was group leader of the junior research group ‘porous media’ at the same institute. Since 2018 he is leader of the Electrocatalytic Interface Engineering research department at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy. Also, since 2018 he is a professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the technical faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research focuses on novel concepts for electrochemical conversion devices such as fuel cells or electrolysers.