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.

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.

Christoph is a sustainable technology enthusiast. Holding a PhD in chemistry, he developed lithium-ion batteries at Bosch and Continental before consulting companies in cleantech and climate change at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Christoph’s vision is to contribute to climate protection by developing and implementing sound technological solutions.

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 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.

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.

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.