Christian is a passionate entrepreneur. He has built several companies from zero to successful exit, including a listing on the NYSE. His three kids challenge him to go from contributor to climate change to becoming part of the solution. Christian is dedicated to make a significant contribution to the 1.5 degrees goal of the Paris climate agreement.

Marek discovered his enthusiasm for natural sciences already as a teenager. He gained early laboratory experience at Lise-Meitner School of Science. After studying chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin and earning his doctorate in catalysis at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), he recognized early on the importance of quantum mechanical simulations for the future of chemical research. He established CreativeQuantum GmbH, one of the world's leading service providers in this field. Marek is the inventor of C1 technology and uses his pioneering know-how at C1 purposefully to develop climate-friendly chemical processes.

Mathias has two decades of corporate experience in the engineering and clean technology sector. He has spearheaded numerous joint development programs to effectively commercialize cutting-edge technologies. With a background in biochemical engineering from RWTH Aachen and a doctorate in Biotechnology from the University of Stuttgart, Mathias has honed the skill of seamlessly bridging natural and engineering sciences. His areas of expertise encompass Green Hydrogen, Energy Storage, 2nd Gen Bio-Ethanol, Algae Biofuels, Hydrothermal Liquefaction, Thermochemical Biomass Conversion, and Direct CO2 Air Capture.

Ralph is passionate about scientific knowledge and its technical application. As a habilitated engineer (LIKAT, TU Berlin and BasCat), he develops novel catalyst technologies. His contribution to the success of the green transition are novel electrodes for efficient water electrolysis as well as catalysts for the direct conversion of hydrogen into chemical storage molecules.

Haik understands how to finance and commercialize first of it‘s kind technologies – based on his US clean tech start-up and blue chip global industry leader experience. He strongly believes that the most efficient way to fight climate change is to leverage deep technology and world-class know-how.

Lisa's goal is to contribute to a successful energy transition with her experience in homogeneous catalysis and sustainable processes. As a chemist in our catalysis lab, she tests and optimises reaction conditions.

Akash has gained extensive experience in homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, mainly focusing on sustainable chemistry under high pressure conditions. As a chemist in our catalysis lab, he now optimizes the reaction under mild reaction conditions.

As a chemical and process engineer, Sara has extensive experience in the realisation and operation of pilot plants from her time at Fraunhofer PAZ. She has close ties to the Halle-Leipzig region and works on site in Leuna as plant manager.

Carlo is a chemical engineer with research experience on PtX processes. He optimises the conditions in the process engineering laboratory in order to maximise green methanol production.

Kay joins our team as a trained chemical laboratory technician with a wide range of skills. He has always been driven by solving analytical challenges. He is now using his skills to make the world a little greener with C1.

As a business psychologist, Wenke is passionate about working with people. She supports C1 in all things that move us forward as a team.

Hamid has extensive experience as a group leader in sustainable process design. With his creative and interdisciplinary attitude, he develops and implements the process concepts in the C1 engineering team.

In the process engineering laboratory, Felix is the link between the chemistry and the technical process. He acquired his skills at BasCat, where he modified a catalytic miniplant for a novel process.

Stephan considers himself a problem solver, whether it's calculation errors in the heavy equipment, scorched components in the prototype, delivery bottlenecks or emotional support for colleagues. Always with his sleeves rolled up and getting his hands dirty, but preferably in a good team.

Daniel is a process control engineer trained in different areas ranging from process automation to data analytics. He acquired his degree at TU Dortmund and makes sure that our plants are operated optimally.

Julius ambition is to get sound ideas to reality. With a PhD in physics, he led the design and implementation of strategic programs at NOW GmbH to enable innovation and technology scale-up. This experience he contributes to C1 strategy now.

Thorsten developed and piloted advanced homogeneous catalysis technologies during his PhD. At C1 he transfers our novel reaction from laboratory scale to our first industrial pilot project.

As a chemist in our synthesis lab, Daniel improves our technology and builds the catalysts of the future. His research interest has always been catalysis under mild conditions with environmentally friendly systems.

As a chemist, Reike is responsible for scaling up and optimising our catalyst synthesis. His research horizon ranges from organometallic catalysis to phosphorus chemistry and environmental chemistry.

As a chemist, Felix is ​​responsible for the optimization and upscaling of the synthesis and the recycling of the catalyst in our in-house KiloLab. He has in-depth knowledge of main group chemistry (mainly p-block chemistry) from a synthetic and theoretical perspective.

Timo successfully completed not only one apprenticeship, but two. He is both a chemical-technical assistant and a mechatronics engineer, making him the Swiss army knife in the C1 laboratory when it comes to technology.